Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1917 — PRAISE FOR TILLIE WALKER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRAISE FOR TILLIE WALKER

Manager Jack Barry Expects Outfielder to Have Great Season— — Overcomes Handicap. — Jack Barry expects to see Tillie Walker have a great season, and he advances a very logical argument to support his belief. Last spring Walker worked under the handicap of being a stranger who was filling the place of a Boston idol. Tris Speaker, and he knew that his work would be compared, perhaps quite unfavorably, with

that of the game’s greatest outfielder, a great slugger. Now Walker does not have to' think about Speaker. He is solid with the Boston fans and realizes it, so he should play a much better game.

Tillie Walker.