The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-12
Old Gy Young Tells How He
Made His Record.
Knew the Batters Well Who
Stood Up Before Him.
HE KNEW THEIR STYLE
Fine Warm Day With Little
Wind a Blowing.
Only Twice Before Has This Feat
Been Accomplished.

Boston, Mass, May 12."lntroduc-
ing, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Denton
T. Young, better known as "Cy," ten
derby known as "Old Cy."
Mr.. Young, ladies and gentlemen,
wears a crown. He is a king. The
capital of his kingdom is a square
shaped patch of turf in the center of
a chalk-line quadrangle. His sceptre
is shaped like the earth. 1t is a base
ball
There are other kings in the land
of fan, but the crown of Cy Young is
bigger than the crown of any of the
others Even Mathewson. the debon-
air and handsome Matty idol of SO
many, wears no such splendid royal
bonnet as does this venerable mon
arch of the diamond, "Old Gy" Young.
For twenty years "Old Cy' Young
has slammed the white, grass-stained
bulb over the rubber plate. No phase
of the curve but he knows, no STRAIT
egg of the slow ball of which the cells
of his brain has not stored knowledge,
no trick of the speed throw but what
he is master.
Strong of arm, cool in the conk,
alert in the game, adept in his art.
ladies and gentlemen, is "Old Cy
Young. Nor is he weak with the
swat-stick. Nor has old Mr. Time dis
minished his leg action when hurting
the bags to score for the Beanville
Der upon whom the public has pinned
the glittering, glorious star of affec-
tionate popularity
Why, in a side street of Boston one
'OId Smoke" champion baseball
dodger. Try your luck at hitting "Old
Smoke
Cy Young learned to pitch here.
That's popularity for you. Cigars
have been named after ICY so have
baseball bats; so have children.
Boston is as fond of its "Cy'' as it
is of its beans. Ever since 1890.
and woe, ICY" Young has stood in
the box handing out the magic twists
field marshal in a thousand games.
He has given time the setback. Age
| has not made a muscle soft or a ten
don faced in his good right arm.
And the proof?
It came the other day when ICY"
Young set the youngsters of the sea-
son a standard to attain that made
them lay back and gasp. 1t came on
this day when 'Ole Cyl Young per-
formed a feat the like of which the
diamond has not known in twenty
four years. It came this day when
'Ole Cyl Young climbed upon a ped
estal upon which only two ball twirl-
ers of the age ever climbed.
The feat that he. performed was by
the wonder of his ball twirlfng to cut
entirely out of all chance in the game
one of the best. baseball teams in.
! America, the Athletics of PhiIadel-
phia.
From this veteran of the diamond
not one of the -swat-stick artists, not
the finest of them, even so much as
saw first base. He struck. them out
like a bowling bah topples ninepiI1s
And those that he did not strike out,
those bats that met the balls he
pitched, could only send those balls
out YEARLY, forcelessly, twisting and
gangling in the grass to be easily
picked up by the bagmen, sealing the
fate of the player before he reached
first base, Not one of the players
| opposing the champion Bostons and
opposing 'Cy'' Young that day even
planted his foot in safety on the first
white bag.
It was the pitching of a wonder
worker. Only twice before has the feat
/ been known, and these occasions were
very long ago. Authentic baseball dope
declares that the first to achieve the
phenomenal thing was Lee Richmond,
! hot cake handler of the Providence
baseball team, who, on June Il, 1880,
shut out the Cleveland team, as "Cya'
Young shut out the Athletics. And
! Johnny" Ward, now John NJ Ward,