The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-02
Plank And Matty Only TWKiers Who
 Made This Record
Two Stars Have Been Ten Years in Big Leagues With
 out Changing Teams

At least one game of the worlds championship series in October may witness a pitchers battle between the deans of the National and American leagues-that is, provided the Giants and Athletics win their respective league titles Eddie Plank is to the American League what Mathewson is to the National League Each of these pitchers has worked for only one club his long major league career, and it would indeed be interesting to have them pitted against each other in the post season series.
 For a left handed pitcher Plank has
 worked along as smoothly as a men- Der of the Athletics corps as the strongest of right hand men. And yet some claim that southpawN twirlers are not supposed to be as strong as the athletes who throw from the star board side. Mathewson and Plank en- joy the unique distinction of being the only two pitchers now in the big leagues who have pitched for ten or more seasons for one club and who are employed by the team with which they began.
 Plank may be advancing along in years a little bit, but he still is able to take regular turn in the box, and, in fact, has done better than most of the others on the Athletics staff this season. He announced some time ago that he would retire at the close of the 1912 season. It is safe to say that when Plank has complet- ed his twelfth season as an American league pitcher he will leave a record that will stand the onslaughts of left hand pitchers for years to come. s Plank is one of. the four twirlefs now in fast company who have won more than two hundred games. The others are Mathewson, Young and Jack PoweM
 One does not hear an awful lot about Powell, these days, hut he bobs up every now and then and wins game for the St. Louis Browns. Pow ell began his career in 1897 with the Cleveland National league team. Al- though of recent years he has lost more games than he has won, his rec ord from 1897 up to and including l91O contains eight more victories than losses.
 There is not a single pitcher of ten or rnore years experience now play ing in the major leagues who has ney- CT fallen below the>five hundred mark. Plank and Mathewsons have each drop ped below the honor mark once. The Philadelphian had ah a1ff year in 1903, when he won fourteen and lost sixteen games while MatheMsons s ordinary season OcCurT6us Tn elSU1, WACII &NCW York finished in, last place and when no Giant pitcher attained an average of five hundred
 If old Sam Lever had not been re- leased by Pittsburg at the start of the 1911 campaign he would have been the only pitcher in the game who had never lost as many games in any one season. as he had won. Eeever's poor est season was in 1010 when he won six and lost five games,
 ssDeacon'' Phil1ipf is the only pres ent day major league pitcher who from the time that he started in Louisville in 1899 never fell below the .500 mark. Phillipi is still with the Pirates acting as scout. The Deacon's poorest season was in 1904, when he won and lost ten games Otherwise he has always won more games than have been lost
 Other pitchers who have been promi- nent for ten or more seasons are ssWiId BilH' Donovan, Earl Moore and Long Tomr Hughes. Donovan first met with success in Brooklyn in 1901, and after two seasons Jumped to De troit Donovan won TYP and lost 116 contests from 1901 to 1910. Moore has been handicapped by illness in his work. and if he had not been forced to lay off in 1906 and 1907 he would have a much better record. Hughes has had only one real good season in the big show He has been in and out many times. In 1903 Hughes won 21 and lost games for the Boston Amer jeans.