The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-10-10
pITC cher DICK GARVIN IN TOWN
Former Yale Var.
sity Twirler Will
Stay Here.

a$sI)ick'' GarVin, the famous coileSe anu
professional pitcher, who pitched for
the Yale SO Varsity nine, and who has
had a varied career on the diamond
since, arrived in Honolulu from San
Francisco on the transport Sheridan,
and win remain here for some time,
possibly pitching next season with the
Honolulu Athletic Club. ''Dick" Garvin
is name that is known wherever coll
lege and professional baseball is play
ed, he having pitched in almost every
large city in the Union, and having at
one time been pitcher in one of the
big leagues on the mainland.
Heir to a fortune of over 100000, once
a star pitcher at Yale, and at one time
a figure in swell Philadelphia society,
is in brief the history of this pitcher
who is now a guest at the Hawaiian
Hotel. Dick" Garvin now carries in
his pocket discharge papers for honor
able service in the Twentieth U. S. In
fantry. Although Garvin enlisted as
soldier at Columbus barracks, he en-
tered the army to play ball. He was
like the stored Private McTavish,"
who was enlisted merely to play golf
and instruct the officers on the links.
Garvin's history reads like book.
He is 20 years old. His parents are dead
and he has a brother and sister. Virgil
Garvin, who year ago was the famous
southpaw on the Brooklyn National
League, is his brother. His sister is
the wife of C. L. Sommers of Fhila-
delphia, the millionaire grocer.
When ex-private Garvin is 80 years
of age property in Philadelphia valued
at about $4,000 win be divided among
the two brothers and sister. In the
meantime the income is divided equal
ly between the three.
But Garvin is blacklisted with the
National League, and can no longer
pitch there until he is reinstated. In
October of last year Garvin was put in
the box by the manager of the Tren-
ton. n. J., baseball nine to pitch against
the mighty Matthewson of McGraw's
National League team. Garvin gave
the New Yorks but three hits They
won the game, however, making a
score of 3 to L. After the game Nc
Graw offered him a contract and said
he would pay him $500 for the season
jus4 closing. Garvin, however, had al
ready signed a contract with the Tren
ton team for $1,000, and before that he
had put his signature to a Binghamp-
ton, N. Y, contract for $500 a year.
Previous to that he had been contract
ed for by Manager McDuffy of Milwau-
kee. That let him out of pitching, and
he at once enlisted in the army.
Garvin passed through Honolulu, on
December IS, 1908, en- route to Manila.
He played on the Manila-American
team during the season, but found it
was rather poor ball playing. He pro-
cured his discharge, and having been in
correspondence with Deputy Sheriff
Chillingworth as to prospects here, de-
cided to cast his fortunes in the islands.
1t was in 1899 that Garvin entered
Yale. Considered the star pitcher, he
won every game he pitched. When it
came TO the football team he was not
heavy enough to get place on the
eleven.
Garvin has big wad of newspaper
clippings from all parts of the United
States showing the games in which he
pitched, all more or less holding him
up to public view as one of the great
baseball pitchers. of the day.
Garvin was great friend of the late
Senator Matthew NJ. Quay, of Pennsyl-
vania. Backed by a letter from this
great parsonage, Private Garvin pre-
scented himself, after enlistment, to the
commanding officer of the regiment,
and since then his duties as a soldier
have practically been nothing. To him
guard mount, policing camp, scrubbins
pots and doing sentry's duty were I'M
known routine. But he did a lot OF
baseball pitching, bag-punching, etc.
1t was a mighty big drop from a salary
of $500 TO S13 per annum, but it was
then Garvin's desire to take up the
latter sum, the other having been prac-
ticaIly withdrawn. Now an ex-private
of Uncle Sans army, Garvin gives no
indication of having served in the
ranks He is a weu-dressed man, ath-
Ietic in appearance and of most gen
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