The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-24
TINKER WILL TRY
TO CHANGE POLICY
Cincinnati Manager Conn
plains That Valuable Players
Have Been Lost.
WAS GREEN AT FIRST
Admires President Hermann,
but Censures Poor Busi-
ness Dealings.

Joe Tinker, manager OF the Cincfn
natl Reds, the other day talked freely
of .tEs present condition and future
prospeSts of the Reds 81 have the
greatest admiration for President Herr
mann in many ways he said. Hc
has heen very kind to me personally,
though / know he has been gTievously
disappointeA in tho poor showing |
have made with tie team He has not
criticized me or made me feel uncom-
Portable on a,Scount OF our oeing tail
nent members OF the first division. But
I have gone far enough now to see his
policy With regard 10 getting players
and disposing OF those VIC have already
is n very wSong one, in my Judgment,
and we will never he able to have q
winning team, SO long as it is persisted
in
"I am not trying to excuse myself
IN the, slightest degree. have made
hhnders and will probably make more
If ! continue in charge of the club for
another year. But / can see that the
policy Of selling off players in hurry
If they arc not playing regularly, and
of making no arrangements Tor secur-
ing good men from the minor leagues
is always going to keep this club
down.
Good Players Let Go.
"We are now sadly in need OF sew
cral good players who could be OBJ
tained if we had not been so anxious to
dispose Of some of our surplus for cash
in q hurry. We sold SeveTeid to Louis
Vile. Chapman to Atlanta and Almeida
to Montreal. In all these cases
thought we would have string at
tached TO these men, so that we could
either recall them or could make some
kind of a deal for other players with
the clubs to which they were sent.
find that no such arrangements have
been made. and we have let three pref
Nv good players go without getting any.
thing in return, but q comparatively
small amount OF cash, which Will not
begin to buy first-class men to I'LL their
places. :, =,
.'Whcn I went to Louisville the 9th
or day made a proposition about Third
Baseman Niehof, who would help us
hort time before ne had sold them
SEVERED outright. If we had kept a
string on him we would have been in
q position to deal with them for Me
boff
Poor Business Policy.
a'The same was true Of Almeida. The
Montreal club has catcher that would
help us wonderfully. but they want
$4,000 and two players for him,
though they gave only small sum for
Almeida. whom they needed very badly
at the time they secured him. If we
had q string on Almeida we would be
in position to deal for Burns, their
catcher. As il is, wo have not chance
70 get him. -,
baseman named Smith We let them
have Chapman outright while ago
and now we cannot make deal for
Smith. So 1t goes. The handling Of
players sent to minor leagues so as to
get the best possible results for. the
Reds in the long run has never been
properly attended to. | was green at
the business this spring, never having |
given IL any attention, and / supposed
Mr.. Hermann would know all about |
that end of the business. find, how
ever that 7 am constantly pressed to |
get players for small cash considera-
tions. and with no strings on them,
mainly in order to save few weeks
salary.
Need Outfielders.
1T is partly my fault that this sys-
TEN has gone on. but II was due TO my J
Ignorance OF the business side OF the |
tpOIL, us my dlIeUliOu, uHlli iilo ytdlp
has always been taken up exclusively |
with the playing end. But see how
this Red policy has kept the club down
In former years Look at our situation |
now We need at least one and prefer
ably two first-class. hard hitting out
heiders, and We have no connections
by which to obtain them or any possible
chance TO get them except by paying
an enormous sum for some class AA |
player,
I've need a third basemnn very badly |
and ! could get one II proper care had |
been used in farming out our surplus ma
terial which was allowed to go for song |
and with no string attached. We need
at least one. and. better. two catchers for
another season. We cannot get man
so far as can see now. who will be able
20 I'LL the bill. We have four new pitch
ers coming the last Of this month or the
FIRST OF next. and the chances are that |
we viii be lucky TO get one really good |
man out OF the bunch. Nothing else is in /
sight. President Hermann wants 10 do |
the right thing. but when he doesn't think
one OF our men Is n good man. be wants /
10 dispose OF him at once for nothing but /
q cash consideration.
Didn't Like DevOre.
We le. Josh Devore go TO Philadel-
pliia the other day for $500 because Mr.. |
Hermann thought we were carrying too
MANY outfeIders and he did not like |
rTI.