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Show TINKER LIKES NOISYJIECRUITS Birmingham, Ala . April 7 "Pepper "Pep-per is the main ingredient in successful success-ful baseball, and the hoys now breaking break-ing In haven't got any ' Thus mourned mourn-ed Joe Tinker in Montgomerv. and, there wax reason for his wall The rising generation has as much pop;oi in It as a carefully filled sugar bowl When I cut into this game, confirmed con-firmed .1 T.. I thought it was up to me to be full or life and ginger to keep things cheered up to make a noise and keep right on making one. l na so and a large part or what success 1 have achieved Is due to this part of my character In my opinion, baseball is a vent for life and spirits .n escape valve for healthy noise and harmless lgor It Is also a field Where spirit and pepper bring the best results, and the most succcsslul ball teams of my experience have al-W&ya al-W&ya made good on this idea "You'd think that a voting player, newly come from the brush, with all the advantages of life, of strong; fresh physique, ol joints and sinews fiee from the stiffened pains of age would yelp and nquawk from the i . joy of his existence You'd think) that he'd butt Into this came wherein hr- makes hiR living, with a whoop and a rush, a yell and a disturbance You j might expect an old. tired ball player play-er to be stern and silent but would! j mi expect clamlike stillness from a' Kid? And yet these kids are as quiet! around the whole circuit as so many) potatoes Like potatoes, they ha. el eves and mosi of them 9how the same quantity of ebullient spirit and bril-l i liant intellect. They come and go like moping mutts They walk I r.round life frightened shadows They go into their work as If the. owed Jan apology for being permitted to cumber the earth All day lone you never hear a Bqueak out of them. No life, no pepper, no ambition. " Of course, some of them are afraid the) will be called down for being too Ircsh. They think they will be sat upon and classified as nervy lob-Btors lob-Btors Not with me they won't. I i don't care If they rail me a fried monaej or a rossll jackass out. there Ion the field, so lone as they do it ! through excitement and sheer lnter-' lnter-' est in the proceedings If they are I afraid of being considered too bump-IfOUS bump-IfOUS let em forget it right av,u Wnt Tyriis Cobb a meek, retiring mope? Or was he so fresh that all the other Tigers wanted to lick bim lor bis Impudence? Better be too fresh than too modest I letter be as Impudent as a baboon than bo as retiring re-tiring as an oyster. Noise, noise, '! tawking all the time that's what I want, and what wins baseball!" |