The evening world. Newspaper, April 6, 1912, Page 7

Se AERP BE LATION 86 as misaine WUSk iene Se ene a4 “ - TAMMANY CHIE. EDITED BY DISCUSSES SPORTS “NEWS OF AIL ALL 5 RANCHES OF SP ORT © ROBERT EDGREN | 1 The Oldest, Pitcher in Baseball Discusses. the National Game. + By George McManus BUT THEY'LL ALL BE AT THE OPENING GAME ® @ Copynght, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), NO, TENNIS 15 ‘ NOPE - 1) DON THE ONLY GAME CARE. POR ANY GAME BUT coLr: NO 'NOEED.I'4 <OIN' To PLAY Poon COME ON, JASE, TAKE, A RIDE YO PLAY GOLF, JOE? TaIKS With Cy. Young, By BOZEMANBULGER. poy aK Veteran Pitcher Who Has Seen All the Diamond Stars During} ————> Long and Active Career Talks Reminiscently of Old Times and the Difference in the National Game of To-Day and Years Ago. and fights with lithe-timbed young athletes of twenty for a job on the pitching staff naturally ercitea wonder. He must be admired for his courage alone, But we pass the stage of wonder in the case of Cy Young. This old warhorse of the diamond has deen competing with the youngsters for close on to a quarter of a century. In every instance he has not only made the attempt but he has won! It ia, therefore, no exaggeration to say that this siz- foot farmer who came out of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, twenty-four | years ago with nothing in his favor but muscle and plain, comnon sense, is the baseball marvel of the age. ere «Two weeks ago Cy Young celebrated his forty-ffth birthday by SCT cing the guest of honor ata benquet given in Columbia. S.C. At the ‘ q1me time he celebrated his annual appearance for the twenty-third whime on a big league ball team. Moreover, he declares most positively © nat he is just as good as he ever was; his arm is just as supple; his gpeed as great and his control as perfect. f CHAPTER I. to . HERE js nothing in the world,” e sald “Cy Young, as a starter, in this, his baseball story of tat ballplayers of twenty-five y ‘to prevent me fr ball for Boston this yea T’: man of forty-five who goes-on a baseball field in the spring BUT NEXT THURSDAY THEY'LL, ALL, HAVE THE __ SAME IDEA! HE KIDDIES ARE SHO MARBLES on the streets and that's the surest eign that ever happened that the good old summertime is with us. So, cheer up! Let us all waits to that good old anthem of Manhattan— professor— Bast Side, West Side, all around the tows, ‘The Ride play ring-a-rosey, London Bridge is fallin’ down; Boys and girls together, me and Mamie Rorke, ‘Trip the light fantastic oa the sidewalks of Noo Yawrk! Ah, but thim was the happy days, Bill, old pal. We, that fe to say, T, don't trip much of that light fantastic stuff on the aldewalke any mors, and more's the pity serked if you will take it from me, there were few ‘who could light a cigarette?” he asked of the! softly, replied the kid as he drew out a box of cigarettes and finally stuck | one between his lips. “Don't you know that a boy of your age ought not to smoke cigarettes?” | asked the old pitcher, ‘Don’ ‘ou know | that it will ruin your health 00d er did in And I can assure you that If I believed for a minute that I wasn't weady to pitch good ball I wouldn't be down here trying to get in condition. I would go back to the old farm in Tus- my life, catawas County and live the rest of my life in quiet.” As long as Mr. Young thinks that way it is not diMfcult to understand how impossible it was to get some per- sonal information from him as to how a pitcher knows when he 1s “I smokes ‘em to keep me company when I'm out at night,” replied the boy. | And he calmly Hghted one despite the lecture from Young. “I guess there's nothing In the world that could shame you, Is there?” asked Young. “No, sir,” was the candid anewer as the boy mounted his ‘bicycle. “I guess | you ain't got nothin’ to be ashamed of either.” He rode away puffing at the cigarette. “There's a boy,” said Young, ‘that ought to have a chance to be raised in the country, Here in the city he 1s past we “ fe! w ni aN kuti ‘itty ee. |Plenty of Action To-Day Public Schools Athletic League base- ball champlonsilp last year, checked the Morrisites down to three hi James, Davidson and Strach being the bato me, An’ what's more, T hope we'll have a rest from all outside tribulations asd visitations for @ while. An’ #o I thrust that Roosevelt will shut up, that Car- mody will bottle up, that Gans will cork up, that Brandt will dry up and serve some more y: or get out of his mangy mess, Gee, but it's great to think how you are going to flash your glad clothes on the Avenya among all the swell guys, and I'll be there, Bil, to show ‘em with + stuff from Ireland's greatest county, Mayo! Want Sis’ pee satere: 688 Se ee while he acted as ma! y flehing Ho was famous for hie 4 ary wit. very long ago a newcomer if Canarsie inquired of Jake, as am old he sudden- re obse membering that I ly ved, had come a long distance to see him, The interview toek place tn Richmond, Va. “Well,” he continued, “I guess I have seen most of them come and go. I ace new ones springing up eve. y da Who were the great stars in your for inatance?”" re se John Clarkson of New York, pinnatl, Bill » Kid Nichols of Radbourne of Cincinnati and . York, They were all on 1 will what I know about them, ‘How about the pitchers of to-day Well, I have seen M Ri der, Brown, Walsh, They are also great. the ofd stars I mentioned. Old Timeis and the New. Young knows difference bet the old-time players and the new, and by the way, he is one of the few admits that there Refore we hear Young's story of that difference it seems proper to go back and sec what “Cy" has done. ‘Though Young claims to be of the old |) he ix also of he new. He has grown with the game believes that baseball progress: toward perfection just as the rest orld marches steadily forward. t, this old warhorse has kept sbreast of the youngsters with euch + steady pace thut in the year 1910 he aitehed his 500th victory and estab- \ahed @ record that will probably never Ile has won several since hen, and he has hopes that he will be able to reach the 600th win before he is forced to retire, his many y"" Young had but . That ay a per- years In the big mark against fit was released uncond!- tlonally by the Cleveland Clud during last season + Phat gave him the sight to go when and where h pleased. In a very short time he had cast his fortunes with the Boston Nat 1 League Club, team he pPOposes to remain until he hae Mfted them out of the ruck and started them foward the first division, He is confident that he can heip them, and the'menas nent concurs In the bellef, Just a! ty" Young had celebrated his forty-nttn birthday in South Caro- Une I started from Mobile to see him and learn something of the «reat men he had played with in the pasi, some- thing of the present day ball playing vand, if possible, to worm out of him vhe weret of his remarkable vitality, A little incident that occurred on the night J sought him in Richmond will ey mono ea ee dwith that for the health when young, He was Uttle messenger boy who had come up asked him for a match. do you want with @ match—to “[ judge from that that you were reared in the country?" I asked. | “You bet I was,” he replied enthusias- tically, ‘And that's where I got the atcength that has kept me going #0 long as an athlete. Why, do you know,” he went on, “I used to have to do @ double amount of | Saturday mornings rail splitting on so that I could play | ball that afternoon. | T have also had to cut oats after a! game was over, provided we got through in tine. I remember one game in whdoli we had & score of 52 to 4, and five of the self, When date. and. would have to do double work the next day. “L was so tired from running and. pitch Ing that I couldn't do much oat cuttin; and that turned my father against base- ball for a while. ‘I guess I never wot game in good favor aga bors hadn't told the old gen a great service I had render munity by winning the gam id Do you like farming?" I asked, Yes, indeed,” he replied. {have @ big farm out In Peoll, O., which ts near whore Twas born, and 1 work It rem: T have never had any ambition to he a good farmer and , good bal! have got the Pipe you think that has had anything to do with your staying in the big league so long?" “Certainly it has The men who lead the simple life last the longest.” How “Cy” Started in Game. Mr, Young then told of how he started tn as a ball player and how he became the star pitcher of the Gilmor “Snides,”” He was unusually strong a youth of his age and could throw ball with terrific speed. One day hi saw another boy pitch a curve, and be ing of an inquisitive turn of mine wanted to know how it was done. Gr. sally he mastered it, and long before lie had ever seen @ professional ball player | Ar curve that } He Ter- he was pitching the best Tuscarawas County had was known as the "Tu: he decided to go out dn h of adventure and, packing up his gings, he hiked olt to Nevraska and finally landed at & town called Redcloud, ‘There Was to be a game of ball between Redcloud and the neighboring town of Minden, fifty miles away. “In those we had no_ sleep- ers, like ball play- ers are used to nowaday ex: plained Young, “and we seldom rode on the rail- roads, We hired days give you an idea of his views on caring | Standing of a dark corner talking to “| f two omntbuses and drove the distance through the country, On the way over) we would stop occasionally and shoot prairie chickens to break the monotony, | That was in 18S, We wlanaged to win) the ball game, and when we got back! 1 meade one more attempt et farming T Boys’ High vs. Curtis and, De Witt Clinton vs. Adelphi Field. Commercial vs. Jamaica High at Commercial Field. Barnard vs. Alumni at Barnard. Stuyvesant High vs, Manual Train- ing High at Hawthorne Field, Poly Prep, vs. Montclair High at Poly Field. ‘Townsend Harris vs, Newtown High at Van Cortlandt Park, t Staten Isl- Adelphi at HIE local high school baseball teams will get busy on eleven diamonds this afternoon, five of the school nin ing out of town to do battle. Boys’ High will play its frst game to-day with Curtis High at Curtis Wiekl, Staten Island, Reports from Staten Island state that the Curtis nine 1s tho best that has been at the school for several years, and to-day’s game will be watched with Intere: the other schools are anxious to seo what the ball players from Curtis can do. J. 1, Wilson, formerly of the Philadeiphia {onalr, and Leroy Quinlan, another professional ball player, have been coaching the lads. ‘The Mneup for to- day's Kame will be picked from the fol- lowing: Capt, Solomon, Kirby, Kiernan, Sing, Copeland, Coffenburg, Starkey, Icks, Daly, Sherwood, Love, Doyle and Bernstein, Coaoh Frederick Bud- gette of the Boys igh team was rather late in getting his candidates out for) and then decided to go When 1 got back to Gilmore T played ball again, I began to read of the for. tunes belng made by players, and I decided to cast my wvtune that way.’ Tryouts in the Old Days. Cy Young, though he was then Dent,” packed his little a Jinmy Callahan ealls those folding grip ks, and started for Canton, ed there, he walked right On up to the baseball manager and declared him- | self a ball player in search of a trial looked big and strong and they de- to give him a chance, ne out to the ball park and we'll what you ean do,” wee ager. Before the trial was over catchers had quit with aching hands, Young's speed was too much for them. Rach of them promptly recommended said the man- back East. ! professional ball} several! | BASEBALL GAME IN PUZZLE PICTURE— FOURTH INNING Runs were scored by neither side in the third inning of The Evening World peer pice, ture baseball game between the ‘Nationals’ and the ‘‘Americans,” | 2—2. Following are the solutions of the puzzles for that inning, which were printed ye:- him, however, and he was signed as a| terday: player. he next day he got a chance, fost his game—1 to 0. Young's was cinched, however, and Canton might have won the pennant if the club had not gone up In smoke and left the players flat. The Canton management was wise enough during the breakup to sell Cy Young to Cleveland for $0, Cy re ported to Cleveland In the middle of the summer of 1890 and there began his vellous carpe he first pitcher that Young was matched againet was the famous Billy Hutchinson, who was one of the big league stars of those days, (Te ve continued in Monday's Event: Worle.) but job First half, Nationals at bat :—. Yeptaning to siip|the age of being shamed. In ‘the coun- Qj the aspirations of the Morris nine by] only ones able to connect with the ball. t! ualifics 'y says he|try he. would instinctively know that on cnoo Oy Diamonds defeating them by the acore of 8 to 2] Morris goes out to East Orange this eee Ae ad a rg s never slipped. |he was doing himself wrong. He would Morris scoma to be weak in the catching} afternoon to meet the local high echool watchman. ro you want me|iisten to his elders. A boy who has no ——— Practice, but his team ts tn good CON-} Genartment, as the Long Island toam| nine at that place, and “Does tio drink?’ inquired the pros to tell you somes | wense of shame Is in a pretty bad way. dition to play Curtis to-day, plifered thirteen bases on Catcher Con-| the Townsend Harris Hall nine'at Van pective employer, thing twenty- | Newtow ye! “0 y “ thing of ‘twenty: | imple Life Makes You Last. |{ LOCAL SCHOOLBOY GAMES. || _Xertown 21g, the winnere of tho! boy. Hurke, the Newtown owirler, held Cortlandt Park Cr have known, the man for, thirty fans, attenipted double steal (‘‘Stiehi”’), put out at home, Second half, Americans at bat :—Triple to left, he walks, foul out, line drive to Arst— caught, pop-up to the box. End of inning. Three out. Nationale—Runs, 0; hits, 1; errors, 0; left on base, 1. Americans— Runs, 0; hite, 1; errors, 0; left on base, 2. To-day are published puzzle pictures for the fourth inning. The solution of to-day’s pictures will be published Monday. Keep a record of each inning and compare your results with the official box score which will be published at the close of | the game. The Alth play in the Arst inning of the game was a bunt to le/t, The score is now a tie, | Single to left, steais second, out at Arst, base on balls, he', Can you “dope it out?” fay certain knowledge has {what you migtt call drunk once-in that time, I can’t eay more.” ‘The stranger walked awey well satis- ‘When he was out of heartng Jake anki quietly: PB or, was true, overy work ot. ae time 1 ever saw George thirty years ago, when I first mot Réme’ He has deen drunk ever since.” Here's a man in trouble, andthe one from Br: His head struck! 7 anewer you, Rudy, Ruéy, @ rail of the bout ecrig bre was all Aik the blessed and holy saison of Jake was sixty if hi You ought to get locked up for and more. prosperou a, Younger | man to change te drew tm the contractor, but he bie ‘ HERE'S A REAL AMERIOAN wh and lives, of all places on earth, in Paterson, New Ja-a-reey, me the following communication: P ‘I propose to erect apartments in Paterson to which only large tomtttey{ win be admitted. | “No dogs will be permitted. ' “Pet poodies take the place of babies. “Instead of “To Rent, No Children allowed’ elgns, the notices that wi Placed on my apartments will read, ‘To Rent to Large Families only, Lal dogs allowed.’ " So the line Is at last drawn between children and dogs! Why howd be necessity for such a line? Why in the name of Mike should !t be draws Paterson when the people in Greater New York, wherein I vote early and rogue larly and frequently, realize the difference between children and canines? bs, there it is—from Paterson—th Sleepy City. Do you know that when I leave home in the morning with a cheer on =r ND and a hope in my heart I get sore when I meet a dog tacked onto the string of some ble boob six-footer who looks me in the eye in a shamefaced way while” the dog doesn’t dare look at all? The dog has aBense of his own shi ne. Ta Join the Hurrah Boys of Joyville, ATTERY Boatman Bill Quigley's iB boat has b stolen, ‘This has} I'm for this salary stuff to wives up been an annual event for nine] as high as 77 per cent, but not the years, What Bill thinks the police} full limit, Yours in adveralty, isn't much better than what he thinks NFORCED PROVIDER, of the thieves who steal his boat. He fan't a bit backward about telling any- | Flatbush: You Poor Gink—You don't know w! you're well off, In your case you give vody he meets how he feels, When his because you lack spine. You've fallen Jacquatntances have all escaped his iio seve aut any day you're. Hal Fiutoh On. inele cunt lapeth tre Butibte [titan stam courage and as! s strangers, stand aghast at {pert y a! billy-fuat bleat and then maelves away and run as from @ an, r rights, If you don't pay double th ake up you'll have to legal fixed rate of wits wife before she’ will ve BU, he is a strong talker! has received any way He had cha his boat up atter |The" first lump was her rights. The sec- doing some work au the British }opd. lump was Wages, tlaving anvy at Pier ® yesterday | hieved = both percentages she'll alt 1 gone home to breakfast, He} down and inform you that d to find that thieves had chop-|to come across with some more | pea out of @ epllo the staple to which he| she will call {t a present, had chained the boat |. Well, Mr, Enforced Provider, when “Breakfast is getting too expensive |have paid over your wife's rights, tl for me," Bill cays. “That's when I el+| the really wages and then the overtime, ways get robbed, That boat was worth) a blind man ought to be able to me 450, and you can buy a helluva lot of | through your pay envelope. or hundred and Att Raekine : Ot r Rattling the Skeleton. W. P. McLoughlin, the “Wurre DEAR WURRA WURE Wurra”’ of The Evening World, you think of Mra, Dr, once played a B flat cornet In the gestion that husbands should | ence League Band of pelled to pay thelr wives a salary? | ty Malo, Ireland, In my case the old lady meets mo Fridays with a fatiron, and if I'm a quarter short she siips me the flat. iron, If 1 wae only able to split my salary or even cop out @ quarter of it ron to-day's Morning Telegraph, Wrong, a8 usual, It wasn't @ comet was a@ clarinet, Forgive me! I'll never do It agabie in 4 total abstinence band! = it