Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-12-24
TINKER RECEIVES
OFFER OF $4,000
Federal League Bids for Three
Rowdyism and Gives Idea Of
Local Club.
WILL DEPOSIT THE CASH
Deposed Leader of the Reds After
Ten Days of Negotiations Is
About Ready to Sign Up.


| baseball manager. Applicants see
James A. Gilmore, president of the
Federal league and owner of the Chi
cago franchise of the organization.
For the right man $4,000 will be
placed in a local bank, this to cover
salary for three years. This is au-
thentic dope. straight from the source.
Joe Tinker is the man "anted to I'll
this lucrative position. lie has bsen
made an offer and admits il hin self
In fact. he is thi" king S seriously Of
bidding go1d.1ye t. organized baseball
that yesterday the Federals only miss
ed by a hair s-brc2din getting Joe's
nam 20 a cC1tracI. Had Tinsser the
needed time he might have committed
the horrible dead.
This angle isn't pulled on an unsus-
pecting public simply because the
Tinker press bureau has exhausted
every conceivable yarn. The ex-Cub
and former Red manager offered to
make affidavit to the fact that he has
been negotiating with the Feds" for
ten days. This much was indicated in
dispatches from st. Louis yesterday,
these claiming that both Tinker and
his former mate, Mordecai Brown, are
being lined up.
Anxious to Land Tinker.
That the local third leaguers will
eventually get Tinker as their Moses
is probable. Not so much that Tinker
is crazy to get the job as it is that
Gilmore and his coworkers are bent
on landing the star shortstop, who
a6f ad
tised man in the country
If Tinker passes up Brooklyn and
his $4,000 bonus and sticks Ebbets for
the $4,000 handed to the Cincinnati
club it will cause a mild sensation in
the baseball world Some may argue
that Tinker had better consult dome
specialist; but don't worry, that ath-
lete is a wise bird. If he signs with
the Feds" to receive $4,000 he will
get 1t, and have it in his own name,
with a conditional clause, before he
Yields the pen.
About the best chance to keep Tin
ker in organized baseball is for Brook
Ign to trade him to the Cubs. Joe
doesn't want to kick over the traces If
he can help it. but is going to make
his own bed because he, and not or
lI.
it is up to Ebbets to make overtures
to Murphy of the Cubs or the Brook
lyn club will have some dead timber
ON its hands and the dodger boss will
not look good to the hackers of his
team, who have been promised Tinker
as sure as the sun rises.
Ebbets Too Certain.
The chances of Tinker going to
Brooklyn are exceedingly remote. Re
CARELESS of what he has said in the
past or what has been printed and
credited to him, he has made up his
mind to let Ebbets suffer from his
'ecklessness. He purchased Tinke'
rom Cincinnati after being warned
hat he had better not make a deal
without consulting the eX-Cub. He has
even ignored kilograms sent by Tinker
and now If he hopes to have II real
,hortstop for the dodgers nexs season
lie must pay real coin.
Tinker is under the impression that
Ibbets has an idea he can make his
nan sign a contract at any salary so
ong as he parted with 10000 The
ium Of $4,000 a year has been named
o attract Joe, but it will not do. It's
q, 800 a season with the bonus or
Tinker will not consider going into
exile" as he pleases to term it, 1t
nay be that no salary is big enough
o get Joe away, and If the Federals
ctually mean business in their S4O.-
90 cash offer it will not take long to
ct their man.
Brown May Be Included.
If Tinker becomes the Chicago
Fed manager it would not be sur
rising should he take with him Nor
ecai Brown. The third leaguers have
cen trying to get the thrce-fingercd
larVel of the Chance days and
rownie will bite if there is real
honey involved. Just now Mordecai
giving lessons in pitching to Fow-
n Mccormick, whom he tutored last
inter.
The Federal league Office IS still
an air Of Indifference.
Ians viii not be discussed and moth
e is known definitely outside Of the
fer TO Tinker Next Monday is the
~ set for the springing of all the
IrDrises. and until then the public
Ill have TO wait with bafed breath