Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1918 — FRED TENNEY TALKS OF WORLD SERIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRED TENNEY TALKS OF WORLD SERIES

•routed by Play Made by Hdlocher in Boston Game. Former First Baseman Cannot See Why Runner Doesn't Try. for Second Base When Catcher Tries to Qet Him at First Fred Tenney, greatest of first basemen in his time, cannot see why base runners, when a catcher tries to pinch them off. first with a snap throw, do not immediately light oat for second base, like jCharlie Hollocher of the Cubs did In the second world sejries game in Boston. That contest was the first title game Tenney ever had seen. The play on Hollocher turned the complexion of the tussle and brought from Tenney the Information that there Isn’t a chance in a hundred for a first baseman to get the ball to second In time stop the runner If the runner goes ahead. “Players used to pull that play a lot,” says Tenney. "Why, one of the men who pulled it on me was Jim McGuire, who was able, I guess, to navigate the circuit in some 40 or 50 seconds. I got a perfect throw from the catcher to rtlp Jim off the bag, made a stab for him and hit the dirt, like Mclnnis’ did when he groped around for Hollocher. McGuire was on secmid by the time it dawned on me he wasn’t on first. “It is hard for a first baseman to stop this play, as he has to reverse

himself ’Just as a base runner does who Is set to go one way and then ( has to go the other. It is not only hard, It Is almost Impossible. Strikes me that the players ought oftener to go on instead of back/* Fred is now living In Winthrop, Mass. He Is a grandparent at the age of forty-six. Since managing the ark Internationals in 1916 Tenney hasn’t • had any baseball connection, nor has he desired any. He’s a success in the business Johnny Evers was a flivver in—boots and shoes.

Fred Tenney.