The Washington times., 1910-12-06
CHRISTY AS ACTOR
MAKES A REAL HIT
MathewSOn Shoots En- Over
at Lightning Speed
on Stage.
By THOMAS KIRBY.


Which do you find it harder . do,
Christy. TO stop q batting rally In the
ninth inning or 20 bow before a big
audienceg''
wei. one is a question Of ability
and the other IS a matter Of luck"
which is which,
Il don't know"
Suppose you were a man on the star
board side OF thirty summers. with a
liberal college education, a perfect
physique and a reputation. paid for
six months work and given an Oppor-
tunity to garner a few thousand extra
sheckeIs during the of season-what
would you do2
Ask ChTisty MatheWsOn, Peerless
Pitcher Of the New York Giants. Idol
OF the fans Of Main street, Manhattan,
Pitcher Extraordinary and Iw1rler
PfenfpOtentiary- author Of a book on
Balls Hit To Pitchers and Balls Pitch
ed TO Hitters.' and the one who admits
that the best way to dispose OF Hans
Wagner is to give him pass BY the
Big Four route, who made his initial de-
but IN Washington yesterday afternoon,
as a vaudeville artist
But Matty Faileth Not
So disguised have become the people
Of the land OF Democratic supremacy al
the puerile efforts Of celebrities IN other
lines to intrude themselves upon an in
nocent and Unsuspecting public, VIA the
vaudeville stage, that no one would
have been greatly astOnished had
MathewsOn fallen down There are
lot OF ball players posing as comedians
who are about as funny as a boil on
the neck, and champions, in other
lines, who attempt 70 De dramatic and
are taken about as seTisusly as charges
Of graft the night before an election
Not so with Matty, the Mighty
Like any real hero he Is little late
in getting on Miss Tully PUSHES here,
there and yonder shouting teI the nope
Of the white race The Giants are be
hind and a pitcher Is needed CHER
Meyers, the stole Indian backstop,
comes along the war path on half
Democratic ballot in Pennsylvania. So
Miss TUlly continues 70 yell end WhoOp-
There is hushed expectancy, after
which bedlam- breaks loose, for there Is
chivalrous gent he Is willing 70 do any
thing to bring about the quiet and peace
OF mind Of his female admirer-
The Three Times Crisis.
She tells him there are three great
cr1sises In the life Of q fan-births death,
and when the bases are loaded She
asks Chief Meyers II he IS a regular
Indian and he replies, pretty regular
CThis lest is particularly timely as the
bases are 1oaded.)
Meyers ruShes of the stage and makes
the hit that wins the game (He would
be q pretty punk hero Il he dion -
This ends the plot 20
Mathewson spends the rest of his time
explaining TO the lady how he pitches
the different curves she Is particularly
anxious to become q real twirer, and,
in pitching 20 Meyers near lie loot
lights, does everything but car holes
IN the back scenes
Are curves essential to your sue
cess?'' asks Miss TuUy-
Not so much 50 as curves are 10
you" replied the p. P thanks to Boze-
man Bulger, the New York writer, who
is responsible for ''Curves)-
This feature is brought to q close
when Miss TuIly asks the P p
do you think pitch very well, Nj
MathewsOn2"
wei, you pitch about as well as
act
Stand Back, Jack Dalton!
The finale comes when Meyers, as q
real, sure enough, honest to goodness
Indian. attempts 70 kidnap Miss Tully.
who is the heroine OF border drammers
and carry her of to the woods.
She shreaks for help and once more
Our hero blossoms forth and commences
to bitch to the Chief" He misses two
wife ones and on the third curve the
william IS out (Curtain-)
Of the stage Mathewson is a mighty
attractive sort OF a fellow Big tail.
well built. modest and quiet he is with
al well informed and capable Of dis
Cussing almost any topic
Between October and March he likes
TO get his mind Of baseball Seven
weeks ago he opened on Nhe stage OF a
New York theateT and from that time
on ne has been a decided success The
idea Of being a CynoSure Of all eyes
does not appear TO appeal to him great
", but at the same time he tries hard
and is having deserved success in his
twenty-five minute sl1it.
Like any ball player who ever lived.
he canno* divorce himself from the
zane even during the winter and IN the
stars dressing room At Chase's yesteT-
day he drifted back TO the world :
series
He Picked the Live Ones.
7 hate to be an I-toId-you-so man.
but it's q fact. as the Philadelphia pa