Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-02-05 | Page 2 | Speed Fiend in Demand

SPEED FIEND IN DEMAND Tinker Has Mania For Whirlwind Ability on Baseball Diamond Speed rapidity both In getting down to tirst and nalcuilnc tho cushions after the arrival, agi 'it In Ipursulnr the sorinjr fly and mixing into the hurrlod infield pla.vs; light-(nlng light-(nlng quickness in ever department Of the game that's what loe Tinker Is solng to try to Inject into the Cincinnati Cin-cinnati Reds durinK the season of 1918 Joe js a victim of the sperd mania Hrt savs it's a lot better to hae a -230 hitter who can skip almbl around the diamond and score 90 or I more runs 5n a fe ison than it is to have 11 ponderos hitter who can make la record of S30 at bat and come across with onl fifty runs In a - car Tinker says swatting is on' n pan of the came, n s an Important p i t. Ol course, but no more so than abllltv to steal bases and skip along like a whirl wind from sack to sack The Reds have plenty of (rood men but somehow he don't deliver. Outside Out-side of Hobby Bescher, the- ;ir. not strong for uslns their ieRS If Tinker Tink-er ran make the gang wake up, circle the sucks In lively time and score the runs that ought to be registered, be will not make only the speed mania I amount to something, but he will immediately im-mediately hoist the Reds way above their previous percentages. Thai Tinkers part is strewn with (anything but roses none will dt-ny. Of 'the fle managers who' were In charge lof Cincinnati while Tinker played i with Chicago. onl one is still at the 'head of a major league club-Clark Griffith of Washington, Kelley and . Tianzel are pilots of class AA clubs,! Hanlon has dropped out of he came , while O'Day Is Tying to decide whether or not to attach himself to I Ran Johnson's American league um-i plre brigade ; Cincinnati has lKen tallo:! the Ves. uvlus of the National league, and Joel Tinker will have to be on the alert to escape the catastrophe which have iiefallcn Mr predecessors durinc repast re-past decade, If he can Inject a little pep an'1 speed Into his players and I ct th in acquire the wluninc habit hab-it whlcn Tinker learned at Chicago. I everything win be sunshine and smiles for the Krcnt shortstop.