The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1904, Page 12

MATHEWSON, CHANGING STYLE, PROMISES TO REPEAT BRILLIANT. SUCCESS OF 1902 “MATTY” ABOUT TO PUT ONE OVER THE PLATE. ++ Giants’ Star Twirler, Bigger and Stronger than Ever, Has a New _ Delivery to Spring on the Heavy Hitters This ! Season—Will Foo! All the Old Batters. HRISTIE MATHEWSON, the Giants’ big twirler, whose sensational work in the box for the local National League Club in 1902 was the talk of the country in baseball circles, says he will eclipse his previous record during the coming season. “Matty's"” work in the box last year was all that could be desired, but, being of an ambitious turn of mind, he is anxious to improve in his playing, and with this end in view he has practised diligently to master a new delvery, with which he hopes to stand opposing batsmen on their heads when they attempt to land on the leather MATTY HAS SPEED 7O BUR ‘As the fans well know. “Matty” has speed to burn when delivering the ball, and with it a most deceptive drop, which eludes the batter's attempt to hit it on the nose in a most tantnlizing manner, The big twirler in 1902 worked this particular curve with success 80} often that he won game after game'for the Giants. Last year Mathewson | ‘worked the same curve with success many times, but not a few of the| heavy hitters in the League got the hang of his pet drop and.imed the leather safely to the outfield. ticular ball. He was not long, however, in discovering the secret of phetr success in measuring his delivery. HIS OLD-STYLE DELI VERY. ‘with hands raised high above his head. As he is about to deliver the ball the left leg is raised high, with the knee bent, and as he steps forward his poworful right arm sends the ball on its journey to the plate with terrifi: force. As the ball nears the plate it takes a downward shoot, and invariably the batsman hits over the ball into space ‘Certain players studied ‘Matty’s’’ style, and timed the ball from the moment it left his hand until it reached the plate to a nicety. They were} able then to meet the ball square on the nose and line it safely to the, | outer garden. At the suggestion oth McGinnity, Mathewson tried the same delivery | with a change of pace. Th oo ape is the same, but instead of delivering the ball with the usual speed" slow drop is delivered. This will cause the patsnian to swing for the ' all before it reaches the plate, and in eight out | _ Of ten casés he will cut into space. SCHEME WORKS WELL. i Mathewson {s fast mastering the new delivery. He worked it suc- Cessfully a number of times in games last fall, and he has practised the delivery during the winter. Mathewson says of his new delivery: “I think the coming season will find me in better shape than ever, and I have no doubt that I will eclipse my record of two years ago. While 1 had plenty of speed and good curves, I knew I could improve on them, and for this end I have worked faithfully. It’s mighty trying in a pitcher to deliver speedy ones throughout a game, and a man is likely to become discouraged when his curves are being hammered nll over the diamond, although he is trying his best. Every pitcher ts Hable to have a few Ind . ays, but on days when I was in rare form the opposing players would touch up my speedy drops in a lively manner. “CHANGING HIS DELIVERY. | » “There must be some remedy for this, I thought, and noticing that Mc- \Ginnity and several other star pitchers, change the pace in delivering their best curves, I set about to follow their example. It was difMfoult at first, but I soon got the hang of the delivery sufiiciently well to work it successfully on a number of players whom I previously had found it dim- cult to deceive. “T use the same motion in changing my pace that I do when I deliver my speedy drop. The batsman, expecting a fast one, will try to time it, ‘with the consequence that he either swings over the ball or will skim the top of it with his bat. Of course, the play cannot always be worked suc- cessfully, and I do not intend to try it too often. I have learned to mix my curves and to study the batsman and what bal) suits him best. PITCHER IS STRONGER. “I have grown bigger and stronger during the winter, and possess as much speed in my delivery as I ever did. | will work hard in the South to master the change in my delivery, and I have no hesitancy in saying that I believe my record this year will be better than ever.” ‘ey ag he would, Matty could not deceive certain players with this par- | | In delivering this particular curve Mathewson swings in a half circle, | CHANGES IN THE | NATIONAL LEAGUE Announcement of the following con- tracts and releases was made yes! Pulllam, President of Contracts (with Van Buren. Frank day by Henry ©. the National League: i g Vonttndetniata to Jersay Clty by St. Lat La BARRY IN FRISCO. bantam-weight champion of the will train Day Young Corbett" KID M’COY, NOW IN SHAPE, WANTS TO TACKLE FITZ ready to post of $1,000 to bind the tel 1D. M'COY, who has been In train- ing for several weeks in antici. pation of entering the ring in the T have seen where Fitzsimmons jinx near future, has his eye on Fitzsim-| heen claiming the middie-weight chan: ; Mona, and nothing would suit him bet- | plonship.” sald MeCoyy “and if he rest vowants to defend the tithe [will eter than to tackle the lanky Cornivi- |J¥ Wants (defend: the title twill ‘ McCoy is willing to fight him for enter Le tages uments cers the middle-weight title, and as a sign "The preparatory tratning (0 SMITH BEAT WILSON IN ' HOT SIX-ROUND BOUT 2 Tha (Special to The Evening World.) spite of being the better boxer, ‘They ANCASTER. Pa., Feb. 18—Ed Jonenca the Kame warily and then took L Smith, of Baltimore, beat “Kid” i Wilnon, of Orange, N. J., last night , third Smith dropped c wnishment af before the Lancaster Athletic Club af- ter #ix roynds of fast fighting ». Smith has a slovenly style of fighting | and apparently little skill, but his blows. ae tremendous, and every time he | Sis alway blocked , Touched Witvon fairly the latter was (stay the lim. Nether man eae exten back and he went back often In |badiy punished CHAMPION BULLOOG, BOTHNER WILL TEST r missing 1 WORTH 82,0, THAD “CUBAN'S” ABILITY: _- BOSTON, Mass., b. 18.—America og shown are deprived of one of tt greatest competitors, named Glen Mon hy th champion bulldog owned py! reheat Homan La’ which died Bothner The “Cuban Wonder wh twice In one hour. ‘The mat will take’ plac the Seventy-first Regiment Armory. | The Cuban, although one of the best Cina hg Maren | handienn. wreatiors in the country, I M he entered, ‘He waa| expected to have aliard thm throw famous American. bred: ing the clever lightewelgit champion In existence, and had) ‘rhe Cuben has alread \ alpeady xucereded 1 “Eaoaltion) icon SUN | throwing Harvey Parker four times in| bs ain at pst mwold he: ane hour, and recently wrestled Dan! sMolecd one!hoprto'a draw, yen dn proper condition bbe AGI FATE GOT WORST OF I » English fight “yaw deal by win third p hockey ¢ She howev no more games | Schedule, and her fate tx | Upon the success or failure of the otk eams who are ahead pf or belind her in he race for the intefcolleglate honors. Of the four games played by Columbia she has won two and “ost two She lost to Harvard and Yale and de- eports. from abroad. round knocked Dobbs gelling Med out of the reat man out, Ain rolled out o YANGER AND HANLON. a) ak : will have his Rourke Coekran aig TRAINS. FOR JOE eet atthewsy ja tinvea ex- t severely tested on Saturday night] Hanton may empia to threw George Wb hax Offered them a pur ate LOST TO ne Frank Morris | |Join B. Owens,...104 Meistersinger u in aitimore fight With’ Joe yards, tpg more than lore Monumental Ctty, it will not take vier uptl hand had ® handiog |dinary interest int ; More's Meh anata pect Hall, Brooklyn. the second. By reason of having scored |ring of the Ninth Ward Guards to- | morrow night came on yésterday afternoon, and for a white iat iis life was despaired of. His mot Bee ltraced the sudden convulsions to canned tomatoes which were | his dinner McCoy for his fight with ‘Tom Sharkey. The latter Is firmly convinced that John Saller's Hall, Bridgeport night, will tt golf links Walter J elghteen-hole match yest with Arthur Fenn, the pro’ j heat him 2 tam-welght, who hi COLUMBIA HOCKEY TEAM BEAT TIGERS 3 10 1 iB’ beating Princeton last night by i a score of 3-to 1, the Columbia hockey team ‘has yet a chance to NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18. —Tho entries to-morrow's races aire as follows First Race—Three-quarters of a mile lish be Oup Dr, GR EY JENKINS WON FROM LUNDIN: TWO FALLS OUT OF THREE ‘Tom Jenkins, the American| B* taking two out of three falls wrestling champion, won last, [night In his match against Hjalmar| Lundin, the Swedish champion, at #ros- Jenkins won the first fall and Lundin the shortest timed fall Jenkins choso catch-as-catch-can style for the last bout. . Lundin quit in the final bout. Jenkins |the second pout at Graeco-Roman. Jen- secured i back hammer-lock hold, | kins Dod Gin ds) eA ont twenty t en seconds, Lundin which could not be broken. Jenkins | put Jeni with a neck hold and was putting more and more strength | @ palt- N bout was between to the hold, and fearing that his arm - ners, mu would be broken Lundin erted “Enough! The final bout lasted 13 § minutes. strom agreed to throw both men inside The first bout was at catch-as-cateh- of thirty minutes. Brown was thrown can, Jenkins’s favorite style of wresti-|by Swanstrom in thirteen and a. halt ing, The champion threw Lundin at| minutes, but the Ttallan could not be this style in a fraction ; thrown in the remaining period of time: minutes by # leg and croteh Over 3.500 people crowded into the halt ‘The Swede showed the ve al si to see i he bouts. TOMMY MOWATT DOWN NEW COMMITTEE WITH WINTER CHOLERA) FOR BALL LEAGUES « ning World.) Winter cholera (Special to The E' Feb. 18. HICAGO, ( will prevent Tommy Mowatt meeting “Kid Hermann in’ the 88 The dread | sick! the fighting conductor Inte erved for contained and she thought poison. In Mowatt’s place, Matchmak-| CHICAGO, IIL, Feb. 18.21tan Johnson, or Lewis has secnred Abe Attell, tne] President of the American League, who comnized ght fenther-weight cham-|left for the East last night,,with the Intention of stopping off in Cineinnatt for a conference with Mr. Herrma Chairman of tt National Commit! before departing named a schedule com. t for the American AUS conjunction with the National the grows The loser 15 per| League's Committee on Schedule. - The and George Siler hax| Committee consists of the Boston, Phil- ee the bout, xdelphia and Chicago Clubs—Messrs, Mack and Comiskey, or theit representatives. jon. Owing to the short notice Attell unwilling to take the match, a unul Hermann 4 dd to stop At side the six. counds were the urtle! 1e| ned. Under the rf the gross receip Sast Mr. Johnson will to close the pending deal for f the W THREE FIGHTS 10 BE 10,000 ENJOY SKATING HERE will be fighting tne toe fo: T night Three contests are hits | to be fonght; and as © Sean Sl 1 atched them will have evenly m Ae tel rincipals: the indications are thal i Petts will furnish plenty of interesting Asien an try Sim. Jeffords, of California, Ww and “stop Joe Gi Grim, the rugged wealiee MUNROE AT WORK TRAINING ON MAT Jack Munroe, the sturdy Butte miner, in addition to his training with “Kid” has been perfecting his wind and power of endurance by wrestling daily with Clarence Bouldin, the “Cuban Wonde! Piening, the invincible “Butcher Boy, who has agreed to throw Munroe three times within an hour at mixed style of wres: in a mate piece at et Friday TRAVIS BEAT FENN. cu. Hla, _Fob. 18-On the yed an 1y_ morning di PALM BE and ito play. Utils thought professionals in the op eek will lave an interes tall t nt next ng time try JUSTICE LOST TO ROBINSON. | York ban- fighting tn . was casily dn, the Eng- rund bout at vty. George Justice, England for over whipped by Spike in a.tw Sngland, Newcastle, feated Princeton and Brown Untver- | sities. j While Columbla did not play night as strong a game as she had played earlier In the season, her boy’ outmanoeuvred Pringeton. ‘The Prince- ton players seemed to be a little behind teh game. Had they. played as they did against Yale ldst Saturday the re- sult would have been different There was little team work and such ffort at Koal-making us was tried wis purely individual work, In this Duden, the speedy sharpshooter of Columbia, probably &: ny member of two teams sat the Pri ton goal he last Ses Bnsclatiat in 'They affect the general health, tainly worked a wonderful improve- fighter, in a Tor fighter, in a a> Found bout before the| ment on Van Courtlundt Lake. ‘The {ce Broadway A. of Philadelphia. Ben-\ is scraped regularly with a planer, er, the 0 feuthe rand ee PE tare AS pieago creators Yelght-|the skating area has been trebled with- punds. before the West End get the past two weeks. The Jake will St. Louis, ands Tommy Mowat now accommodate 10,000. where formerly. Stitute and Kid Hermann, the Chicago! Dut 00 Knights of the sleel runner fighter, will try conclusions In a aie., found pleasure. 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