Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1912 — TINKER PRAISES ED WALSH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TINKER PRAISES ED WALSH

Shortstop Says of All Pitcher* He Hae Tried to Hit White Sox Spit Bali Artist la Hardest. Since Joe Tinker has been out in San Francisco this winter he seems to have had almost as much fun talking baseball with? the fans in California aa *he has playing for fans in the east during the summer. The other afternoon one of the Saa Francisco critics got Joe to talk about the pitchers whom he had faced since he has been a ball player. He paid Mathewson a great compliment and also heaped tributes all over the name of Ed Walsh. Part of his conversation runs as follows: “Of all the baseball pitchers I ever faced the hardest to hit is Ed Walsh. At least, he is the hardest for me to hit "I don’t'say he is the greatest pitcher in the world; I think Christy Mathewson is the greatest “Do you get that I say he is the greatest; not was the greatest ‘ “Some people try to tell you that Christy is a dead one. There is no question but that he has slowed up, but I maintain that he Is the greatest pitcher fa the world. "He and Walsh are hard to hit for exactly opposite reasons. "Walsh has you out before you try to bat To tell you the truth, he oyerawes the batter. He is big and strdng' and has terrific speed and a wonderful break. Walsh Is a spitball artist, pure and simple. You ‘know exactly what he Is going to throw and what to !»• prepared for, but you can’t hit the ball. He gets your goat. "Mathewson is -exactly opposite hi method. Christy tenderly leads you

astray, so to speak. You are always sure you can hit him—but you can’t. No other pitcher In the world has «o many resources.”

Ed Walsh.