The sun., 1916-11-12
TINKER, MANAGER
OF CUBS, TO KNOW
FATE TOMORROW
Many Candidates Are in Field
for JOc's Position as
Bruin Leader.
STTFFY McINNIS MADE
GREAT UPHILL FIGHT
Nv sUORTSTOP.

ny sWORTsTOP.
Joe Tinker. manager Of the Cubs last
season. Is to know his fate tomorrow.
Joe IL running on an independent ticket
to succeed himself AS tactician OF the
Chicago Bruins. The stockholders Of the
chics 60 Nationals-and they say IN Chi
there Is a stockholder for each share of
stock-are the electorate who will de-
eide whether the noble Josephus is
worthy Of another chance to lead the
Cubs to their old time glory.
There are almost as many candidates
for Thinkers job as there are Cub stock
holders. That Is whenever q Chicago
baseball writer is stuck FOR material to
all his column he places another name
in nomination. Among those entered in
the list are Frank Chance. Larry Doyle,
Dick Kinsella. Jack Hendricks and Fred
Yapp, alias Fred Mitchell. In fact one
~ the few men overlooked is Charley
Murphy. II makes no difference that
Chance. Kinsella and Hendricks already
have declined with thanks, their names
s,.ll are on the Chicago ticket.
However, 1t looks to Shortstop as
though Tinker will be given another
trial despite all the evidence the stock
holders have against Joe. Tinker had a
pennant winner In the Federal League
and n fourth place club In the National,
and the result proved "A fifth place team
In the National League. incidentally no
National League men are boasting OF
the great strength In the parent league
last season. To he candid. 1t took some
mighty bad playing by P%ittsburg. 81.
Louis and Cincinnati to keep Joe from
striking bottom. IL was the frs. Cub
team that spent n winter In the second
division since 1902.
sRddrst blow Of All.
The saddest blow to Tinker's hopes
came when the White Sox licked the
Cubs in four stra ght games. After
Weerhman had purchased a lot of en-
pcnsive bushers such as Workman. Kelly
and Carter. TINS jolt took the wind right
out Of the business men who helped
Neechinan TO finance the club. Four
straight defeats made the Cub look
very much ito the bush"
II In fair To say that Tinker had his
share OF trouble. While he didn't get
much out ~ the players held over from
he Chifed champions OF 1915. the Cubs
failed him still more, Safer. depended
upon as n pillar of the club. developed
ey" trouble. and fell down badly at bat
and in the field. Archer and Williams
were injured during a great part of the
season. and Lavender was of little help
10 the club, Zimmerman and Tinker
could not get along, and Schultz could
hit. hut slowed down In other depart
ments.
Wccghman still has n feeling OF
LOYALTY fur Tinker. and he may usc HIS
Influence to keep Joe on the cub pay
roll. Tinker was the first player Of
prominence 20 cast his lot with the Fed
sral League. After Joe made the hurdle
many other players followed.
McIMnis's Failure.
One of the hardest batting fights ever
made by n player went unrewarded and
practically ~unno,iced last season. II
was as hard a struggle as Ty Cobb
fought TO overcome Iris Speakers bat
ling lead. but. like Tyrus, the athlete
under discussion failed.
We refer to StuTy McInnis, the crafty
little first baseman Of the shipwrecked
Athletics and one Of The leading bats
men In the game. Mclnnis, who hnd
hatted over 300 ever since Connie Mack
plucked him from a Gloucester high
school team. had one of those strange
batting slumps last season which at
various times seize famous batters.
McInnls simply could not get n ball
snfe. He seemed to hit the ball as
hard as ever. but always some fielder
would make a phenomenal stop. When
ever he drove one of those sharp liners
to left 1t would go on n line to the left
fielder and Re could never get n ground
ball past the third baseman or shortstop,
Mcinnis IL a left field hitter, but despite
the fact that all teams know whore he
hits he clouted the ball over 300 FOR
SIX consecutive years. In the spring
and early summer the shortstops and
third basemen seemed TO be playing just
right for him.
Made Great COmeback.
IN mid-July, with the season half
over. McInnis was hitting under 200
He vas desperate. and Mack let him go
home for n rest. When he came back
the batting eye came back with him. and
IN the last half OF the season Mc1nnis
outhit every player in either league but
Speaker. with less than three months
% 70 McInnis tried va'iantly 10 over
come that 100 point deficit and keep his
500 batting average string Intact bow
ever when the season closed StuNy was
Still fifteen points shy of his goal, nut
n less than three months he 'ifted his
average from 1873 to the respectable
marx OF .2sJ.
Prior to July Is McInnis made is
his I'm 23t tines NJ hat for an aver
age Of 100. From July Is on he made
700 hits IN PSI times AT bat for an aver
are Il .356.
S'uTy il one Of the youngest veterans
= ne game. Despite the fact that he
Was only % years old this fall. he al
ready has served eight full years with
Mack.