Show 00 A alez or 17 efy PLAYS oil MAJOR wa VE i AF 4 foj fuw BY JOE TINKER premier short stop of the nat nanal ional league and captain of the cubs cuba who appears to lia 1 prove with age just about the time a fellow tri fiks be lie has pulled off something and da with it he Is 1 likely to discover that the other fellow was doing some thinking for himself I 1 believe the worst break I 1 ever made on a ball field was in trying to put over some wise stuff and it was old silent fred titus taho TV ho slipped it over on me I 1 never had a chance to make a kick I 1 simply bad had to swallow hard a couple ot of times and take off my hat to him and it lost a game tor for us we vi ere fighting for the pennant that season and doing everything we could our own as both pittsburg and new york were giving us a battle the other teams didn dian t know it but wo we did that our pitchers were tired out and not very good and we were worried tor ried la in spite of the tact fact that we a a kept idt on telling it was easy for ue uc we had a IL long lead for the pennant but were counting every game and figuring whether we could last or not and there never was a club that had a harder aarder time cinching a pennant after it was within reach than we did we were playing philadelphia and I 1 think the game was between reul bach and earl more who ho always gave us a lot of trouble the score was very close and we were hanging on with one run to the good hoping that deuly would last it out although we WWI 4 4 joe tinker knew he was tired lie ile had worked a double header in brooklyn only a few days before and we expected that ho he might tire toward the end we hoped he would last it out and give the other pitchers a rest as everyone was in the same boat titus got on first with one out I 1 don t remember how and magee smashed a hit past me so fast that it was a thousand to one titus could rit t gato go to third I 1 dived I 1 att at the heball ball then straightened up and as titus crossed second I 1 cut across in front of him just to throw him out of 0 step and make him slow up with 0 out ut interfering with him or touching him at all hoffman had fielded field ed the ball and was ready to throw in so there wasa t a chance for titus to go to third even it I 1 badii hadn t moved you may judge my surprise when that quiet inoffensive guy tooh took a running jump at me bumped me as hard as be he could threw his arms around me and wrestled me down to the dirt I 1 shook loose wondering what had hap bened but titus was gone he ile was running at the umpire claiming I 1 had bumped him and held him titus had seen that neither umpire was looking and I 1 cut across to s slow low him up he grabbed me and w when hen the umpires did look they saw us all mixed mixed up so they let him jog on to third on account of my interference titus scored on an out tied it up and they beat us out of the game and arid I 1 couldn coulden t say a word he had slipped it over me the other fel lows kicked but I 1 knew I 1 had made a blunder and that he had taken ad vantage of it and won copyright 1912 by W G 0 chapman |