Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1916-12-26
DIAMOND BIDS
AO|0S TO JOE
MAN VINO COST MAJOR LEAGUES
FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IS
NOW BASEBALL HISTORY.

goodbye! They've dealt YOU out Of the
big league game and they'll never LEI You
in again. But though your face and
form disappear for all time from the
realms of major baseball the memory of
You will lve-as long as baseball lasts.
They'll recall You Joe. for many things
for your brilllance as a player, for your
magnetic self. But most of all.
Joe, they'll remember You as the c~ostliest
ball player that the game has ever known
or ever will know.
SO Joe, fareweil-and good luck. And.
rs You journey along the future pathways
vi life. YOU shall do 30 knowing that base
ball vii think Of Won long after the stars
of yesterday, today and tomorrow are
,one-and long forgotten.
Tinker Made" Feds.
Mitchell succeeds Tinker as manager
of the Cubs was the news item flashed
the land a few DAYS ago. And
that, concretely, tells Of the passing from
power OF the man who cost the diamond
magnotes $4,000. 600 perhaps more.
Tinker's Jump in the winter Of l9l3-1I
made" the Federal league. Had he
The huge offer Of Chas. Weighan'
j. unlikely that the baseball wartar,
swept away fortunes. and shook tn,
very foundation oil the national game,
have come.
Tinker, at the time he performed hi
was the most conspicuous fig
are in the sport. And when he decided to
his LOT with the ''outlaw' %organiza-
lion an army Of major lcaeuers followed
his example. They figured that if such =
and brainy financier a. Tinker wa
to take a chance with the new lea
.ne, the proposition must be worth while.
o. B.. Hatred jOsephus.
Tinker incurred the undying enmity OF
baseball leaders for his act. They
feel that he was the torch that set the
b aseball world aflame, with such ruin
Gus results-to all but the players. Despite
statement that he s%upplanted
Joe because / think Mitchell is a bet
ter leader many always will feel that
the ousting of Tinker was forced upon
Weighman by some of his National league
associates. They had vowed TO "get"
Tinker-and they succeeded.
But Tinker should not he blamed Who'll
ly for leaping TO the Feds. tie didn't
Jump because he was ut heart an unfaith-
full or ungrateful creature. He jumped
because a jump practically was forced up
him by the hippodroming of c. Hercules
Ebbets, owner of the Dodgers. Tinker
hurdle started the Feds-but Ebbet's dis
gushing trek caused Tinker to make it.
When Garry Herman sold Tinker in the
Waldorf barroom during the National lea
que meeting in December, 1913, Tinker was
perfectly willing 10 JON The Dodgers. He
had no thought of deserving. Thu terms of
40 sale were hat Fbbets was TO give
Herman $4,000 and Tinker his $4,000
bonus. But Ebbets decided to get as mnch
free advertising as he could out of that
record price" deal. Instead Of signing
up Tinker at once and giving Tinker his
SIG. 900, Ebbets held off-and strung along
Tinker.
What Tinker Decided.
Tinker was anxious to sign-but Ebbet
wasn't. The longer Ebbets could drag out
the final details of That epoch making pur
chase the more advertising be could get.
And Ebbets dearly loves advertising. Sew
eral times Tinker communicated with Eb-
bets-and inst as often Ebbets stalled,
Then il was that the Feds saw an oppor-
%tunity.
Weighman owning the Chicago Fed
franchise hunted up Tinker and offered him
q three year contract nj $4,000 q year
Ia far greater salary than Ebbets has Of
fcred. even with the bonus included. Tink-
er refused Weighman a definite answer N
their first meeting.
Il want to get in touch with Ebbets
again. Tinker told Weighman.
And Tinker did. He told Ebbets Of til,
Weishman offer. Ebbets thought Joe was
merely bluiting-he didn't think the
W,ighman offer was a bona flde. So hs
choriIed ~neering and Joe Tinker made
his famous Jump.