Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-01-28
RED CORRIOEN
HAS A HARD JOB
FORMER kEOkUk PLAYER 4
SLATED TO FILL TINKER's
SHOES At SHORT.
WELL ADVERTISED.
Player Has Had More Publicity Dur
Ing Past Month Than Any Other
Star; Connected With Big
sest Trade In History.

Chicago, Jan. 27.-Red Corriden,
the new Cub shortstop. should be one
Of the best players that has ever
the advance notices of the youngster
are correct. The price paid for him
also entities him to a place among
the top-notchers, II price has any
thing to do with players success.
The question Of whether Corriden
will be able to make good or not Is
very important one to Chicago fans
right now, because Manager John
Evers will have to have good short.
stop in place of Joe Tinker before his
team can hold it's place at the top Of
the league list next summer. Winter
advertising, however, does not help a
player in the least, and often hurts
him when it comes to- the playing
season. Too much boosting often
makes a player feel that he has to
accomplish the impossible in order to
live up to a reputation given him by
his too Jealous friends. This makes
him nervous and unfit to accomplish
as much as he would If he had come
into the league unherarded.
The publicity attached to the trans.
fer of Corriden from the American
league to the National league, how
ever, has made the youngster one Of
the best advertised in the country.
1t Is seldom young player has such
an important role in a big deal as the
new shortstop did. The, signing Of
Frank Chance to manage the New
York Highlanders and the signing OF
Joe Tinker to manage the Reds hinged
on the outcome of the efforts OF
Garry Hermann to secure Corridor
from the Detroit club.
OF course. he was picked as a
capable youngster by Manager Evers
before all this publicity came to him.
II he had not great reputation as
player and showed great promise Of
being able to All Thinkers shoes, he
would not have been picked.
0orriden has much in favor OF his
making good. He is getting his sec.
ond trial in fast company and realizes
1t Is up to him to make good II he
is going to stay. His experiences on
his first visit to the big league should
be OF great assistance to him in his
second chance.
He was with tho st. Louis Browns
in the fall Of 1911, but was playing
third at that time. He was sent back
for another season in the minors and
was last year with the Kansas City
team under the management Of Charlie
Carr
He is regarded as a good hitter by
all OF the good judges that have seen
him in action. The question naturally
ar ,es, "Why was he allowed to go
by Hughie Jennings IL he is such q
good player as all this?" One answer
that can be made is. Jennings has
one Of the best shortstops In the
American league in DOME Bush and
had no need for him."
The records show that Corriden is
a much better hitter than he is a
fielder. He IS down near the bottom
OF the list OF shortstops as a fielder,
but he is up near the top Of the list
of batters Of the league. He is re-
parded as q heady player and very
willing to learn. II his disposition is
right he can require the ability to
field much easier than he can learn
to bat. The great trouble in picking
up new players is to find one that
can ,at. 1t is q natural rather thar
an acquired trait.
Manager Evers Is not worrying as
much about his next shortstop as he
was last fall. When he made the
deal that brought Al Bridwell TO the
Cubs he was playing safe, for with
the veteran back In harness and going
good he would not need to figure on
any youngster making good. /Brid-
we'll claims that his foot, that kept
him out of the game all last summer,
is as good as ever again, and he Is
young enough to be able to play the
position for years II he is physically
all right. He is not a great batter,
but he is the kind that Is at his best
in the pinches, and that is what wins