Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-10

business; think ne must take care OF
himself and keep In good condition STUDY
NAV i,:sf Z, Iittia battor 3hSm the other
fellow and keep at it.
Il wouldn't say a fellow must be a tee
Nor would ! say he mustn't use tobacco,
l use it moderately. But l would say
that there must be reason about it, u
k ean ST up all night cSery gn
And If taking one drink meant BOOKING
certainly would leave 1t alone alto
gether.
1T is hard for me to make any com
parison about baseball, for have always
been at it all my lifS. I was always play
ing when VT, l , Wasea hoy. was raised on
winters to stay with my folks and where
Mrs. Young Is now. l wasn't educated. so
that l could have gone into any clerical
thing but baseball"
Mr. Young is "a man who has been hail
ed as q development of the last 10 years,
when he began. just as he is still donS.
In the early part the season og 1882 he
played In thinning game against st.
Louis. the game ending in a tie. Not Il
run was earned off Young, who was In as
good condition and was as strong at The
end of the Ii innings, to all appearance.
as he was at the beginning. Two years
ago the critics of baseball said that Young
WAS the greatest pitcher the game had
ever known. Many stars have shone as
Rightly FOR one or two seasons but com
bining his great qualities and his long
ana brilliant service, he OutShines them
all Since then he has added brilliancy to
hrilliancy; and tw" years TO the length of
On the diamond he looks big. but off
the diamond he looks bigger. lie is over
feet tall, and bulky. But there is II
does not wonder at his activity. lie is
in no sense clumsy. When he comes out
of the grounds after a game he looks like
healthy. happy. well-to-do citizen, n
manufacturer. perhaps. He is extremely
quiet, though he shows at times Il CLEAN
OF humor which accounts for the rcputa-
ton he bears among players of being one
of the best fellows in the business.
Analysing his success. one concludes
that nature began for him by presenting
him with fine constitution and a health
rail-Splitter of the Tuscawaras which
means only that he grew up on n farm
in the most beautiful and fertile part of
Ohio. Hunch believers would say, per
haps, that any man born in Ohio has an
odds on-chancc of greatness. be 1t in the
Presidential chair or on the baseball field
Ohio is used to producing the top-notchers
Of things American.
MIR. Young was born I'm 1861 and so Is a
living rcfutation of the theory That ath-
letics use up men while they are still but
fact that athletics keep Il man in healthy
shape right into the prime of his life.
providing always that the man doesn't
try to combine athletics with all the va
ricd sorts of StrCnouSnCSS proffcrcd by
the conditions of modern life.
In 1880, when he began pla yng profess
Sionally, Young was tall, raw-boncd
country lad, - years old. He carries, to-
day. about 200 pounds on his frame of
more than feet. His course through
baseball has been one of few changes
He played for the Canton club Of the
Tri-statc League. and one of his PERFORM
ances even then was to shut the McKcrs-
port club without Il hit, striking out Is
men. His release was purchased by
Cleveland that wear, and he pitched IL
games for the Spiders during the remain
der of the season. He remained with
Cleveland until 1S'S. wher that club was
merged with st. Louis. and then pitched
for st. Louis in 1899 and 1900. In 1901 he
was offered a large salary by the Boston
Americans and has remained with them
ever Since.-BoSton Globe.