Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-10
ICY" YOUNG.
The Biggest and Best Pitcher That
Ever TwirIed a Ball.

Denton T Young. who established what
was really a record performance, Thurs
day. by that fact called attention to what
is as remarkable as the performance it
self-the length of time he has remained
a, baseball player, with work like this &C
the hthrr end Of it. Few people. by the
WY. know Denton r. Young. though al
most everybody knows 'Cy' Young.
he Mr. fa aeG Tho Rn1w w ws
given him at The. time nc began playing
professional baseball. in 1880: He pitched
then for the Canton. O.. team. IN the
Tristate League. and during his first sea
son attracted 50 much attention by his
remarkable pitching ability that when
the Cleveland club began searching for
players to replace its brotherhood desert
ers. Mr.. Young was bought from the Can
ton club.
The Cleveland Leader Of the following
year said: His advent was an occasion
that will long be remembered III Clevc-
land The Chicagos were the first team
that he pitched against in the big league.
There was no uniform that would fit him.
and he was obliged to appear in q patch
ed-up affair, part Canton and part Clcve-
land But he pitched himself into fame
just the same. and after Anson's men had
Young made in the box, they found they.
But 'Cy' had already. been invented
S snd YOUNG !" sht he %hS
form his admiring public. And II years
after he showed Arson and his men that
they could not not hit his s,I pitching IL. mo "Gy
is absolutely errorless. In which just y
men get chance at the bat. There could
not he fewer in a full game. because there
are nine innings in a baseball game. and
three men must be put out in each Inn
ing to complete the inning. Now that
thing has happened before. but under
present conditions it has never happened
that a pitcher has so conducted his am-
paiEn against the batterS of the opposing
team that rot a single man reached first
base. In the old days with much short
er pitching distance, with pitcher al
was done, but in the rules of today. with
60 feet to throw the ball. and with the
pitchers toe tied down to the rubber,
never.
The wonderful thing about it is that
the record was not made by one of the
constantly recurring discoveries" one of
the new young men affectionately called
by the baseball fans ''phenoms." Denton
Tecunseh Young has seen many a "phe-
NOM blossom and wilt. and has gone
right on at the head of the pitchers OF
the big leagues. and at the end of n ser
vice which has equalled i'm length the
| total playing life of most baseball play
ers. has come up with a record perform
ance.
If one asks Mr.. Young the secret of his
long success. he will do two things. First
he will refer the questioner to Manager
Collins of the Boston team, saving that
| 1t is Collins business and not his own to
one goes to Collins for information. as
one newspaper man did. the manager will
say. why, there's Young over there Go
| over and ask him.
| ! don't know that could give any young
man the recipe to become a good ba ii
player. A ball player is born so; you
couldn't make atero one e, out a,. OF man who
! would tell any young fellow. to attend
to business just the same, whether he