The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1913, Page 7

fas Reached Stage Where Ability to Control the - Ball Does More to Baffle Batsmen Than Blinding Speed of Old Days. Matty Has Great Record ‘of ,684 for 14 Years in the National League. Mathewson's pitching ave fourteen years, his bt In that long stretch in which many have dropped into oblivion rted with him, Matty has 2| sesessesnesse By Bozeman Bulger. \O have a man’s opponents write of his greatness is a tribute that is seldom paid, Christy Mathewson is en- titled to a feeling of pride that he} @hould carry to his grave. The work of this great pitcher this spring has attracted so much attention that The Evening World sent telegrams to all the leading batters who have faced him asking, their opinions as to his ability and their reasons for such. To a man they award him the honor of being the “King of all pitchers” and their “An unparalleled combination of brain and physical explanation is: In addition to the opinions of Matty's prowess from famous bat ere of both leagues, scattered over the aseompanying layout, are the follow- ing, afl a gladly given testimonial to) who despite his thirteen Years of continuous service in the Na- tional League is regarded as the star) of the game in his pitching specialty: MIXTURE OF CURVES FOOLS BVERYBODY, SAYS DAUBSERT. JAKE DAUBERT, Brooklyn Club—Christy ful pitching #o far this sea- Bot been any surprine t+ m2, tor I have alwave regarded him as the @rentest pitcher that evrr stepped into @ box, and after watching aim pitch nm innings against our team at Ebbets Field on Wednes.lay | fcel con- jatty” ts atl! good for years to come. During the four years that I have been playing with captain of the only hope that I will be able to go along ‘and pitch as he has for RARELY PITCHES TWO BALLS vinced that “ Louls team—With hia wonderful con- trol Matty does not have to use speed. The reason Mathewson Is pitching such wonderful ball to-day is because he knows every minute what he ts going to do with the ball, I never saw any pitcher who could put the ball where he wanted it like the big fellow, caslong to bat against Mathewson, and I can truthfully say that I think he 1s just as effective to-day as he was the firat time that I faced him, He has makes a successful He is cool headed, whether in Pinches or not; has wonderful control, speed agd curves and he mixes his curves up #0 well that he can fool the star hitters as well as the lesser ones. Matty 1s not only a wonderful pitcher, excellent judgment He fooled me badly everything that man—Why, I never could hit him and expect to go along the same way. ever batted against. Many times have I had three balls in my favor, but he would shoot the next threo over and I stood flat-footed waiting for & walk. Some play: hit him, bi have to while at the bat. during last Wednesday's game. ured that it w: up to him to sacrifice and as I came running tn, thinking I would grab his bunt, he smashed the ball over’my head into right fleld for a base which scored a runner. REATEST PITCHER DAHLEN EVER SAW !N ACTION. BILL DAHLEN, Manager of the Bpooklyn Club—I look upon Mathew- fon to-day as just as good a pitcher an he Was years ago, he worked harder while he was in the how, but he knows more now and, of course, works much easier, In former years had an equal. He may not be as fast n me for the Giants against my club a few days ago I cannot help but way what I ha him, and ¢hat is that he {s without any question of doubt the greatest base- ball pitcher that I have ever seen in always said about NAP RUCKER HANDS PALM TO HI6 RIVAL, MATTY. NAP RUCKER, Brooklyn Club—When you hear aay and read Mathewson being the # er in the country, handle a ball like the New York twirler does, 1 have pitched against him and umpired before him and can: truthfully in tact ever since he started, fer the just as good twirling now as |QPeras next week. On Monday and | Olymple for five or six weeks in Europe he evér did, Any pitcher who can win games like Matty did the other day in Brooklyn is a wonder, that is absolutely truth, and, furthermore, it is not exaggerating things 6 bit. Matty is cer- talnly a wonderful twirler, and I am aure that he will be just as good in he is at the present wish bim every success, and I nacre eS Matty’s Own Story Is a Pitching Lesson By Christy Mathewson. 6é HEN TI firat came to New York I had wonderful speed and 1 used it ali the time. So anxious was my man- . W ager to win games at that timo that he did not curd or caution me. As a result I got a very sore arm. It pained me wo that I could not sleep at nights and I thought I would never be able to pitch again. They did not realize just how bad my arm was and called on me to pitch when the work caused mé excruciating pain. I then began to think. If I did not protect my own arm nobody would and I wouldn't last two years. That thought wave me the idea of developing a slow ball so that I could reserve my speed until I needed it. Just about the time MoGraw came here and began to advise me, I discovered that my slow ball wae just as effective an my spesd. That saved my arm and enabled me to earn a living for many years. L never got back the speed I had before they allowed me to pitch with a sore arm. Later on as my mind grew more mature I discovered that @ pitcher wastes half his energy in throwing balls that do not count. To avoid this I had to have control and be able to put the ball just where I wanted to and make the batters hit it. In other words, I realized that a pitoher should not try to be more than e@ne-ninth of the team unless @ crisis arose. Then the reserve strength could be used. I did not always have food control. At first I was wild. By constant practice, how arned to get the ball where I w: that helped to save my arm, According to statirtics, I believe, the average pitcher throws 190 balls to a ga! pitcher who can get by with half that many, therefore, will last just twice as long. Every ball pitched takes just ‘THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, “Matty” a Pitching Marvel, Say All Batting Opponents, \\ And as Good To-Day as When He Started 13 Years Ago Most Remarkable Baseball Student, All Agree, Whose Success Is Due to His Knowledge of His ’ Weaknesses. that much strength out of the body. 1 do not waste any more than I can avoid. It ie my ambition to last ten more years. If I succeed I will feel that I have done the best by baseball that I could.” Matty and His Famous “Fadeaway.” Greatest Pitcher Ever Seen on Diamond, Says Hans Wagner of Matbewson. ANS WAGNDR of Pittsburgh in speaking of “Mathewson is the greatest pitcher over and I went to the berch. je has as much speed now as he ever had, but as he can win games without using it he does not resort to trying to knock the catch- er down, I remember one game he worked against us last summer in which he did not use a curve ball. He had such excellent control that day that he used noth- Ing but a straight one, You, can say for me that I think Mathewson is just as good to-day as he Matty Pitches What You Don’t Want; He's King of Them All, Says Tris Speaker. T= SPEAKER, of the Red Sox, says: “Among ballplayers, Mathewson 1s generally conaldere? the greatest pitcher that ever lived, and I under- stood why after seeing him pitch against the Red Sox in the world's series last fall, His control ts abso- lutely perfect, and notwithstanding the fact that no batter is ever afraid of being hit by Mathewson thay find it exceedingly diMcult to touch him in a pinch Hoe will last for many years because he reserves his strength until {t is needed. He has a tantalizing way of giving « batter just the kind of a ball that he d t want and still he gets enough of it over the plate tu have it counted a strike. I gucss we'll have to award him the crown of king.” student of the game, and ne would have| last time 1 think Mathewson will be been the aame in any other busine: had tackled. I have s Mi yweon| many years to come. many times talking to his inflelders in many years, ALIKE, SAYS KONETCHY. MANAGER HUGGINS of the St.|0f the game," says Brennan. “It is generally the infleld that is talking to the pitche: Mathewson would have|to get any nearer perfection, become a mas’ cheas !f he had de- voted as much time to that game as he the Greatest student of the game we ters that other have ever had. se that of Pitchers aft KONETCHY, St. Louis first base-| cured from Jack Miller, Chief Wilson, =D Arthur Hofman, Jimmy Sheckard, Larry pene George Gibson and others, MATTY A S8TAR IN WORLD'S ERAN JAMES M’ALE RIES, SAYS STAHL, ie JAKE STAHL, mai of Red Sox—The first time I ever bat- ted against Mathewson was in 190./as a batter, but ‘The next time was during the last|his work for yeare, worki’s eertes. He was much better and his arm is just as good as his head.” the most remarkable pitcher I 3 have told me they could I can’t and that is all I Matty Is as good to-day as he was ten years ago and ranks with In the few Hig effectiveness Mie Ci ke? be sung at the Old First Presbyteria: he. neat Ul ia Leryn cUormack’s Church to-morrow by an augmented , under the direction of Dr. Wille tty never pitches hard to a L °. choir, uni power, Matty novel Pihote and then ast Cit aL | em ©. cant, ana Margarot Harrison, ater Be ea all aNear i Elizabeth Canfield, Charles W, Harrison bs — get two balls alike, and they all have and J, William Filson as soloists, eejot of stuft on them too. By Sylvester Rawling. : ¥ NATIONAL | JOHN M'CORMACK, the Irish tenor, | Columbia Univeralty announces a oon- KNOWS EVER whose lovely voice no less than|<ert of original comvositions by etu- LEAGUE BATTER'S WEAKNE! the engaging simplicity and natu-| dents of the Department of Musia at HEINIE PEITZ who was in the game Falness with which he sings Irieh bal-|the Horace Mann Auditorium on Wed- when Matty was a kid, says Matty never lade have drawn sev diences of | nesday at 4.10 P. M. The public is tn- Almost unprecedented to hear him | vited. naa was atgone time, but he knows a/thie season, will give a farewell re- —_— heap more about his opponents than helettal at the Hippodrome to-morrow | Prof. Sainuel A. Baldwin will give treo formerly did, There ts not uw batter in| night. His programme will be varied, | TS" recitals at the City College on to- the National League that Matty dves not /and will Include some of the arias that | orrow and Wednesday afternoons at know, he knows his weakness and uses|he is accustomed to eing in opera, and} * clock, his brains on every occasion. Be Will be assisted by competent art- a UMPIRE MAL BASON—Mathewson | ists; but Irish ballads will be his prin- ‘test pitcher this or any other | cipal offerings and, of course, he won't THEATRE NOTES. rr ie the Mover possessed, I have seen be able to escape from singing “Mollie ." "Mother Machree” and “I fome pretty nifty pitching in my time blag wan, " Anna Held is coming back in Sept ear you calli; me but I never met a pitcher who could yo sl er to tour in vaaideville under John ‘The Angelini-Gattini Opera Company | Cort. “Oh! Oh! Detphine!” closes to-night at at the tury Theatre this week of |the New Amsterdam with # record of say he is in a class by himself now and/or, Cicala” and “I Saitimbanch!” for a |238 performances, ¢ anything improved him for debut, will present no less than four| Leo Shubert sailed to-day on the Wednesday evenings, hunting for new attractions, on Tuesday evening WILLIAM BRENNAN, Eason's um- pire partner, remarka that Mathewson matinee, ‘‘Fatinitsa’ will be the bills, name of "The King of the Mountains, would have been a success in any dual- * — While the house was filling and onlg ness he bad etarted in, “Why, he 9 8 Mendelasoh: | > eae - AS HE HOLDS HI6 FAST ONE. MARVEL, SAYS CLARKE OF MATTY, AND STAR FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. (Special to The Evening World,’ Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, May 3. ANAGDR CLARK K—Wohat do I think of Matty as a pitcher? & pause he “Well, that Is @ pretty hard matter I always considered him to Why, I look upon the he greatest pitcher we have ever had, and, although I have not batted against many of the American League pitchers I have no fear in saying that the Giant twirler ie better than any of them. Som pitchers come into the league and for & couple of years set the world afire, atarted in 1900 he has been a MATTY’S ASSORTMENT OF CURVES IS BETTER THAN SPEED. —Zimmerman. | Greene called “Even in the Wilderness,” | DO not know anything about Mathewson was years ago, but I do know that he is the best pitcher in the League t the present time, since I came in sever: said Heine Zimmerman, derful control makes it easy for him to fool the batters for he can stick the ball Just where he wante to and when he wants to, more than the ordinary run of piteh- ers, and knows exactly what a bat- ter can hit and what he cannot hit. 1 always like to facq him because 1 at I can feel safe and take chances on swinging on the ball. He atill has a lot of speed, but does not have to use it often because he hus auch @ grand assortment of curves."* | Academy of Music, He uses his head | Merry Whirl,” of last fall he was not at his best, and [ must admit that I had some doubt being the gr doubt disappeared when work againat the Red Sox, t there and took my hat off. His work was not only a revelation, but I felt that I was at lust seeing what I had always longed to see—the I knew the fallin time I pulled for him not ¢o pitch a certain kind of a ball that was exactly the one he pitched, His control was perfect and his brain work I doubt if baseball ever sees another pitcher like Mathewson. He ought to last six or seven years longer, “AGE HELPS RATHER THAN HURTS MATTY.”"—DOOIN, #8 he} one of the world's greatest pitchers for| MANAGER DOOIN of the Phillles— T have seen lots} No man who has shown the remark- of pitching, but I never saw, or expect Jable hi ekill of Christ; I order to steady them in a critical stage | to see again, anything Uke the work of | son, — ane year, can eS es Mathewson in the last game at Boston| ne tak that we won. No pitcher can ever hope during about his rave 7 & one-act play, .written by Mme. Bern- hardt's son, Maurice, and Henrl Cain, | in which the great actress has the rote) of a former circus girl who becomes was uncanny. the Dill will include Joe Welch, Hebrew comedian; Mile. Tregoleska, called “The | Roumanian Nightingale; Suratt in a musical fantasy called) “Black Crepe and Diamonds,” Elisabeth | Murray in songs, John F. Conroy and his Diving Models, W. C. Fields, comic the best care of himself both 7 Jugwier; Bert Fitagibbons and others, | and after the playing season. He had | Resides, Mathewson is a student of the by hae tuff on the ball in 1912 than | game, fe always studying the o in 190%, and in a week he had | a and weak points of the vari has to baseball, for he is without doubt | discovered the weaknesses of our bat- robe He peehey what they ant ee meet ad ied pation and what they cannot hit—and he feeds v agal em for severa! Expressions like the above were se-| ye: Matty has @ wonderful brain, band net Fe RES SE SRR OS Then, too, Mathewson has wonder- ful control; no pitch WHEN MATTY CONVINCED VRT-| ter. every ball to go, and he usually gets JAMES M'ALEER, former star and|it just where he desires. Each year the) now President of Red Sox—I never} Mathewson's experience atds him more, had a chance of facing Mathewson|and a. I had heard of| been who depends as much on his head I saw him prior to thé world's series| he does on his arm, phone, with Mayor Gaynor and other city officials making short add Juliet? im character impersonations, Maurice Cross and Josephine in dances, ‘The Melrot instead of hurting him has|in ‘Just Nonsense." Bronx Theatre, where oth: Sam and Kitty Mort William H. Lothrop, assistant manager, |Siner®, Beatrice Moreland in “Dr, shot himself dead in the office of the Boston Theatre last night. Martin Beck has sailed for four weeks in Europe in seroh of new vaudeville @tare for the Keith and Orpheum cir. cults, Among the chorus men at the Lamba’ Gambol Friday night will be Otto Gorits, Andrea de Segurola, De Wolf Hopper, Edwin Stevens and George Maciar- lane, top Thief" closes down to-night and will restart first week in Augu eral members of the company a ing in London during the summer, “The Conspiracy” ends to-night and may go to Chicago next season, Otis Skinner, who ts in hoapital at In- dianapols after an operation for the Temoval of an abscess back of the ear, is improving, but the doctors say it will be four or five days yet before he is out of danger, Rosika Dolly and Martin Brown will be at the Victoria the week of May 12. John P. Hogan of Hogan & Hughes, one of the last of the old school of min- is dead in his sixty-oighth year 58 Went Gixty-sixth the chief attraction at Proctor'y Fifth Avenue Theatre, where the bill will/| also include Frank Keenan in ‘Vind!- cation,” Melville and Higgins In “Just Married,” Courtney Sisters, and Chief Caupolican, At the Twenty-third Btreet Th the Fifty-elghth 31 ‘The Cloak Model | atrela, the beat to ay Henry W. Savage has obtained Lehay | street. ques tie ‘Shoat tt and Leon's new opera, “Das Furaten-| The Lieblers are suing Robert Loraine Boe kind,” and will present (t under thej for the return © his share of tie profits on the run of “Man and Superman, oratorio, “Elijah,” will a moment after joking with friends, was no prot left im the end, round fine, without any ‘other doctor than’ ftad fray's_ Heady elie A Household Remedy. BAW RAE SS Rant vate, ate, They say there MIME. BERNHARDT TO PRESENT PLAY HER SON WROTE “Her First Divorce” and Lambs’ Gambol Events of Coming Week. ody by C. W, Rell, will be Deputy Commissioner of Lae bor Widely Known in Politi Gibley Whalen, Deputy Commissioner ef Labor and former Gecretary of State, died early to-day at his home im tig “H BR FIRST DIVORO! & com offered at the Comedy Theatre on Monday night. The story concerns | itself with the attempts of a woman, Jawyer to procure a divorce for @ friend following @ sort of Beeley dinner given by the husband during hie wif ab- | gence, <A cast headed by Laura Hope Crewa will also include Julian L'Betrange, Allan Pollock, Ruth Holt Boucicault, Adora Andrews, Harold Rus- sell, Crosby Little and Harry Lillford. eee Afternoon and evening performances aity following a brief iliness thet sulted from complications operation for @ throat aff of the ploture masque “Hiawatha,” with R. @, Pigott as reader, will be given at | the Berkeley Theatre for two weeks. | eee : | “Pinafore” will be revived by the Mil. | | belt & Sullivan Opera Company at the | Casino for the coming week. ee ‘The Lambe’ Annual Ladies’ Gampot | | takes place at the Metropolitan Opera ‘House on Friday afternoon, Among the tures will be Montgomery and Stone, playlet called “What Will the End @ Chinese play entitled “The Green @ comedy known as “The Naked Man,’ rand comic opera” by | Victor Herbert and George V. Hobart, | Richard Outcault in a monologue, a confidential conversation by Willis ©. | Sweatnam and. “A Wolf in the Sold,” a | Lambs Club skit introlucing many not- able actors, authors and managers. There will also be a play by Clay M. Jullan Eltinge brings “The Fascinating Widow’ to the Grand Opera House, “The Governor's Lady’ comes to the Wem End Theatre. | “Sherlock Holmes” will be revived at the Hartem Opera House. “Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford” will be Presented by the stock company at the At the Prospect Theatre ‘Madame X,” will be the offering. “The Crackerjacks” will be at the) Columbia, “The Ginger Girla' come to the Mur- ray Hill Theatre, “The Smart Set” will be seen at Hur- lll Hf a iyi i j | Galene RSTEING. traction at the One Hundred and Twen- ty-fitth Street Theatre will | Offeringa at Keith's Union Square ‘Theatre will include Isabelle D'Armond and Frank Carter jdancing numbe in _@ singing and the Empire Comedy son's talking Minnie Allen tn son Among the features at the New York ‘Theatre will be Diane, Parisian singing comedienne; Carmencita and her Span- ‘ah dancers, and Riccobono’ On the roof a dance carnival and con- tig & Beamon's. | test wilt be Ae! The Olympic Theatre will have “The Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, with her co: pany of twenty-five, begins a two weeks’ engagement at the Palace Theatre on Monday afternoon. For the first week | following arrangement of plays haa Christmas Night Under the Terror,’ vivandiere in the Revolutionary Army; Tuesday, the fourth act of “Lucretia Borgia; Wednesday and Thursday, “A Christmas Night Under the Terror;” Friday and Saturday, the fifth act of “Camilk * Sunday, the third act of) “Theodora.” The vaudeville portion of Seldom's “Poems in Marble" and other features. | At Hammerstein's will be Valeska! The Colonial will have Jose Collins; and Maurice Farkoa in a singing and dancing number, the Edison Kineto- mi | Beatrice Orford and her elephants, | Charile Case and other features The bill at the Alhambra will include vt and hig Invisible Band, Movies,” "The Diamond Dinner," Bert | ) clown, and Henry and Francis Nat M, Wills will head the bill at the | will be in “Back to Where They Started,” the Wlorentine Bille Joy," Adler and Arline in “Al New Idea," and the Geo Gays, | Kitty Gordon in new songs will be tre the Elght Dancing Dolls first place, The feature at t Theatre will be The leading will ha Mrs, J. Westerrelt of Pate Rad must tell :0u. remedy fi hor aukle and iy coming The bill.at Henderson's music hall, | will include Peter, ‘At Miner's Theatre in the Bronx will| monkey; McKay and Cantwell in “The be “The Morey Mealdens.” | Policeman and the Pickpocket, | IN VAUDEVILLE HOUSES. | Coney Island, Sparks and conmpany Irish play, “The Workhouse George Whiting and Sadie Burt, and Marguerite Haney and John Scan-| —_— 300 JANITORS SET FREE. | Noe the Arrest Them, Saye Magistrate, Three hundred janitors of apartment and tenement houses in Harlem were Harlem Police Court this moming, sum- | Monsed for not providing their ash oans with covers, The Magistrate was angry as he surveyed the group, “Who 1s responsible for the appear- anco of these men?” he asked, on Saturday, their day of rest and religious observance, don't want anythi Ho discharged every ene, any other make for ‘Tae Bost 93.00 CAUT! 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