Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08
MATTY is DEAN OF PITCHERS
Christopher Mathewson of New York
is Best of Them All.
CY YOUNG's RECORD POORER
veteran Has Been at Il Longer Than
Matty, hut Has Not Had so High
PcrccntaEc MT Any Time.
In His Career.

NEW YORK. oct 7.--Careful exam
nation OF the performances of major
league pitchers for the last ter years is
not needed to show that Christopher
Mathewson is the greatest pitcher of the
day. .s --
Peerless. Matty," the title which was
bestowed ON the big fellow when he won
the worlds championship for the Giants
in 1895. does not seem to have been mis-
placed. At the present MatheWson is the
dean OF Nationa. league pitchers With
out taking any credit away from the
grand old man Of base ball, Denton
Young, the assertion that "Matty'' is
dean Of them ell, American and National
included would not be without founda-
ton Young is one of the best preserved
athletes now in the big leagues. He has
twiried in both the National and Ameri-
can leagues ever nee the year 1890.
At the end Of the 1910 season Young had
won 500 games. Imagine it, at least 20y
more victories than has been scored by
any pitcher now with major league club.
Few doubt that Mathewson also has it
Within Ills ability 10 win more than 500
games before he tires He has already
won close TO $50, and who knows that he
may not win the other go before his pitch
ne days are over? II Mathewson were TO
enter another league after his National
league days are over Il is likely that he
would be as effective for six or eight sea-
sons against new set of clubs as he was
during the prime of his career. The
trouble is that "Matty" will retire from
base ball when he is finished with his
task as a Giant, but that day is still at
the end Of a lons lane.
Young Changes ArOund.
Young benefited by such change He
pitched, the first eleven years of his base
ball life in the National league. Then
for ten seasons he served his benders TO
American league batters, and now he is
back in the National league again. Those
who have seen both Young and Mathew
son work for the last ten years claim
that il Mathewson were to start today as
an American league pitcher he would
more than equal Young's half thousand
victory mark, and that his life as a major
league twirler would be extended several
years. II stands to reason that the bat
tiers of the National league are bound TO
become accustomed TO Mathewsons recent
work and the futile attempts of some bat
ers to gauge his delivery. big Six" still
maintains most Of his cunning.
Comparing the records Of Mathewson
and Young for the first ten season OF
their respective careers, it is found that
"Cy' won 9sS and lost 14s games, while
Mathewson captured 2S2 and lost 40
games. Young's average Of victories was
.a7 per cent, Mathewson's $50
Included in ''Matty's" record are two
games which he lost as a Giant in 1900.
The other lis games he lost in the ten
complete seasons from 1901 to and includ.
ing 1910. Thus it viii be found that for
ten complete years his average would be
slightly better than 6Ss. For his entire
life Young has an average OF $50 pei
cent, but II wouldn't be exactly fair to
compare Mathewson's ten years work IL
that Of Young, who has done duty for
twsnty-one seasons.
Following are the official pitching rec
ords OF MstheWson and Young. They
were secured from records in the library
Of National league headduarters:.
average of Ten Nears.
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