The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28

unique character in baseball as we'll as the daddy of them all as a pitcher. One Of his commercially good traits, and which Is remarkable, by the way. is that he never kicks at the decisions of umpires: Cy has fought many a close battle and lost out by single run, when one or more decisions by the um- pires would have turned the scales in his favor, if the said decisions had been rendered the other way But no mat ter how the umpires decide, the big fellow never has kick in store for them.
 In the winter league they tell an in teresting story of how, one day in 1907, Young and Joss fought out great To ten-inning game in Boston, which Cleveland won on base on balls, help ed along by an error and u single. Late that evening Umpire Johnny Connolly met Young, and said to him:
 T am not sure that didn't give you the worst of 1t, Cy. on that fourth ball. It seemed from where l stood to he
 "oh, that was all right. Tommy" re- piled Cy. Tt was at least six inches too high"
 Which one of your 47s victories in the major leagues do you recall with the most satisfaction?" asked Elmer Bates of Cy the other day.
 The first game I ever pitched for Cleveland. back in 1S90." replied Young, unh esitatingly. T doubt if a baseball crowd ever looked upon more typical Rube than appeared to be that day in a make-shift uniform six or seven sizes too small I didn't have much money then. but I wouldn't have lost that game to Chicago for the prettiest $1,000 bill ever printed"
 Young is exceedingly modest-per- haps the most modest ball player of reputation baseball has ever produced. At the hotel where Boston was stop ping one day last season young man took a chair beside the veteran twirler one day and began paying him fulsome praise.
 You're the swiftest pitcher I ever saw" said the young man.
 swah Then replied oss Cy, T guess 6s Eon looks like a slow freight trying to keep up with the Pennsylvania Limited compared with Rusie's."
 But your slow is peach"
 Young man." answered Young, If l could, pitch the slow ball that Tim Keefe used to hand up to the batters, I'd let them knock $1,000 year off my salary.
 It is a matter of record that Cy didn't know he had retired the Athletics two years ago without man reaching first. May 5. 1904. until another player told him.
 T knew Comics boys hadn't made hit" said Cy the next day.. but I couldn't understand why the crowd was making such a demonstration.
 "'Well, you've done 1t, Cy,' said Jim- my COIllnS, as we started TOT the uTesS- ing room, after the crowd had let me go.
 Done what, Jimmy I asked.
 "'Pitched a no-hit game. said Col lins Better than that added Jimmy, not a man reached first
 Then I knew what all the racket was about"
 Is John I. Taylor. of Boston. the wise man of the East, or is he the most le- gitimate candidate for the dunce cap in baseball?
 The answer will come this year and the 1909 record of "old Cy" Young will decide it.
 Many men claim that today John I. Taylor Is the most hated man in base ball. That he is hated to 8 long extent Is true, but how deep this hatred Is cannot be told offhand.
 John I. Taylor plunged and plunged heavily. He played tho. longest chance race. Was the bet foolish one?
 If "Old Cy" Young should go back this season, if he should prove utter failure, John I. Taylor will next au ,tumn be regarded by fickle and easily | led fandom as the wisest man in base ball.
 But, on the other hand. if "oId Cy" fandom will claim that Taylor has less brains than any other man managing affairs in the major leagues. He's in pretty bad right now, is John | I. Out in Boston they are Cup in arms and giving a real definition of the | phrase. They are hot after Taylor, and | Boston faces ruinatlon as@Aa baseball town
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