Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-03


taken when Tinker signed his con-
tract with the Federal League. Pub
licity is a ball-player's life, and Tin
l1er is no better than the others in the
game. Because of publicity, because
of the many nice things said about
them. the youth of the land make
heroic efforts to get into baseball
Some men are cold-blooded and are
in the game for every nickel there is
to be gained thereby, but more than
few, especially in the older days,
would play ball for their bed and
board and the cheers that came their
way" a statement I have heard made
on more than one occasion. Yet Tin
ker, the greatest limelighter in the
business. attempts to belittle Charley
Ebbets for the Brooklyn mans pub
licity methods.
Tinker is a bad boy" for making
such rash cracks. Once upon a time
Joe was wonderful player, made so,
though, because of his two side pals
Johnny Evers and Frank Chance.
In his individual efforts Tinker would
never have gained much prominence,
although he was a good ball player.
1t was more because of Evers and
Chance than because of Tinker that
Joe came into prominence. He was
a member of the famous from Think
er to Evers to Chance" trio. 1t was
Joe who started the play, but 1t was
Evers and Chance who finished IL.
In that way all three men have be-
come famous. but Joe Tinker to have
the nerve to say that it was Ebbets's
love for publicity that prevented him
from signing his contract with Brook
Ign is evidence that the best place for
Josephus is with the "outlaw" league.
G
Like most men in the public eye,
ball players are crazy, as the saying
exception to the rule, and, in fact,
judging by the way he posed for the
camera man when he was signing his
contract with the outlaws" he real
ly loves to beam before the nashlight
man. You will note the pleased ex-
preston on Tinker's face in the pic
ture OF course, he is to receive a
bundle of money for his signature,
but 1t is good betting that he would
drop off few hundred any old time
to have his picture printed in the
various newspapers throughout the
country His interview attacking
Ebbets, which is printed below, is
done, of course, to win for Tinker as
much public sentiment as possible,
but it isn't likely that he will be able
to get away with it, especially with
such glowing evidence that Tinker
likes the limelight herewith produced
in the picture of Tinker's own posing.
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when read that I had been sold
to Ebbets I was not pleased" Tinker
says, with a big bluff. But when I
heard that I was to receive a cash
wager that my feelings underwent a
change. No one can find fault with
me for going where I can get the
most money. II man possesses tall
ent he cannot be blamed if he turns it
to the best account. I waited few
days and heard nothing from Ebbets
Then 1 telegraphed him. l received
no answer to my message. I wanted
TO know where / stood and whether
the story of the $1,000 really went.
waited until I knew that Ebbets was
in Cincinnati" Joe goes on to say.
Then I wired him again and asked
him If he would be in Indianapolis on
the following day. Again my tele-
grams were ignored. 1 didn't go to
Indianapolis. But on the day when
] should have met him I received a
telephone call from Manager Wilbert
Robinson. He told me that Ebbets
was angry because I had wired him
about the bonus and the terms. Then
came a letter. 1t was from Ebbets,
and he offered me a salary of $4,000
for three years and the bonus of
$40, 900. And here is where the public
ity stunt was to come in. was to go
to the National League meeting in
New York in February The contract
and the check would be there There
would also be a group of newspaper
photographers. Then there would be
party and the check, I suppose,
would be photographed That's circus
stuff"
Charley Weinert is not lacking for
matches. He is unlike Jim Savage in
that respect. Everybody, 1t seems, is
willing to tackle the boy whom Percy
Woodruff hopes some day to make a
champion, but somehow or other
everybody, according to Savage, is
afraid of Jim. That is an awful state
of affairs. Anyway. Savage is I'M
able to locate trouble while weinert
is forced to dodge corners to avoid
1t. Jack Dougherty Is the latest
manager on the trail of Welnert. He
wants to match Al Mccoy, a pretty
good boy, against the New Jersey
champion. In his efforts to secure
the bout Dougherty is trying to make
a great fellow out of Mccoy and a
no-account out of Weinert, and per-
haps Manager Woodruff is afraid of
the match. If, as Dougherty says,
Mccoy is only a welterweight, such
contest would be out of the ques-
ton. Jim Savage, perhaps, likes to
box little fellows, but Weinert is
heffer rlaa sed rNhen he is nnnnfincr