Norwich bulletin., 1913-03-25
cORRIDEN MAY BE STAR. Possible He Will Prove Cog for Cub
 Mechanism.

Although Red Corridor is an expert l machfnist. graduate cum laude. or the railroad shops at I4oganSpoIt, lnd.. you would never call him mecha n1cal 1 ball player after watching him perform l for few minutes. He isn't as finished l 8 player yet as he is macn1n1st, put ne 1 is one of the kind who knows what he 1 is doing when he does It, and also | knows intuitively when not to do it, l which is almost equally the mark or
 natural ball player. says an exchange l Cor1iden served his time as an appren- tice in the machine shops as John Mi chael Corridor. It was not until he began to play ball that he acquired the ! more descriptive handle of Red. That was in 1907 with the Frankfort Ind |, Independent team. Next season keo- 1 kuk picked him up and he played with that team for two seasons at third base.
 In the fall of 1909 Red was sold to the St Louis Americans, but was farmed out 10 Omaha during 1910. He was recalled and reported to the Browns just in time to get in tFoubi2 by being invo1untarfly involved in the Lajoie-Cobb batting scandal of the fall
 Of 1910. Red was the goat who played
 first base in both games Of the double
 header when Lajoie made eight bunts
 toward third base and beat them att'
 out. T was told to play deep. says
 Corriden in recalling the unpleasant
 memories of that day. It d1d not take
 me long to get wise of course, to what
 was being pulled, but what was l go-
 ing to do or say about it? I was kid
 trying sto break in and make good, ana
 all my training in the machine shops
 had taught me to obey orders implicit
 ly. I did think of pulling up lame or pleading off from playing the second game on account Of sickness, but no
 good excuse occurred to me, so l stuck
 to the finish and never have regretted
 it. That probably had something ro
 do with sending me back to the mi
 nors but it did me good, anyway."
 When the St. Louis club cleaned house after that mess by firing Mana ger O'Connor and by asking for waiv- CTS of Corriden, Pittsburg claimed him. but could find no place for him, so Barney Dreyfuss disposed of the in fielder to Kansas City. Red played two seasons for George Tabeau's team and made so much noise that the Detroit club bought him in August of last sesl- son. Corriden reported to Jennings and was placed on third base during the last few weeks of the American league race.
 Corridor probably would be in De- troit yet. or at least in the American league, if the opportunity to get Frank Chance as manager for the New York HighlandersI had not arisen. Corriden was the keystone in that trade, which involved four clubs and a bunch of players. His release to Cincinnati by Detroit was made possible because the ether seven club owners waived claim for the good of the league" Once in Cincinnatfs possession. he became parr of the deal that made Tinker manager of the Reds and Chance pilot of the New York Americans.
 Corridor is 25 years old having been born in 1887 in Logans port, where he began his career as a machinist, serv- ing full time as an apprentice, and getting his papers before he turned to baseball as a means of chasing the wolf from the back door He is mar ried and glad of it. Red is right hand +11-rar r, E inches in height. He is the fresh est recruit in Manager Evers' roster when on the diamond, but that is a boost Instead of knock. In the games with the regulars he has fought every inch Of the way and berated his teammates for keeping so quiet when they were being beaten.