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Show TINKER INFECTED WITH SPEED MANIA ' ; 1 4c Tinker. Cincinnati, ian 21 (Special) Speed rapidit) both in getting down to first and navigating the cushions after the arrival, anility in pursuing the soaring fly and mixing Into the hurried infield plays, lightning quick -neas In every department of the game that Is what Joe Tinker Is going to rv to inject into the I Int innatl Kis during the season of 1913. Joe is a victim of the speed mania ma-nia He says it is a lot better to have a .'Jn hitter who can skip nim-bh nim-bh around the bases and score 90 or more runs in a season than it is to have i ponderous hittei who can make a record of ,320 ai bat and come across with only r.O runs In a year. Tinker says swatting is only a part Of the game li is an Important part ot course, but no more so than ability abil-ity to steal bases and skip alon? like a whirlwind from sack to sack. The Reds have plenty of good men, but somehow they do not deliver Outside Out-side ol Bobby Bescher they are not strong for using then Iol's if rinkei can make the gain; wake up. circle the sacks in lively time and score the runs that ounht to be registered he will not make onlv the speed maul ma-ul amount to something, but h,- will immediately hoist the Reds way above iheir previous peri entagi s Thai Tinker's path i- strewn with anything but roses none will denv l the tlx.- munapers who were in charge ol Cincinnati while Tinker Played with Chicago, onlv one Is still at the head of a major league club ( lark Grllfitb of W..s hluuton Kellev and Qanzel are pilots of lass A lub, Hunlon has dropped oil! ol th.- game while () Das i, vine lo decide whether or not to attach hlm-seii hlm-seii to Ban robnson' Amerli an lea eue umpire brigade Cincinnati has been called the Vesuvius Ve-suvius of the National league, and 1 "lk"- Will have to ba on the alert ,hp catastrophes vvhbh have befallen bla predecessors during the pasi decade if he can inject a little nep and speed into his players and fr v,?,,m .acqu,re lhp wlnln habit hab-it which Tinkei learned at I hlcago Wthing wil, be snnsnu.o and smile J ioi the gieat shortstop, |