The Wagner post. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-current, 1912-06-07
MATTY, THE HUNDREDTH MAN.

Matty Is h hundredth man, because he IA a right to be n you
speak If the gent IS the greatest living pitcher, o are 10 INDUCING In
hyperboe. which is the dude name for blowing the Durham, you are simply
stating facts. 1t is n compliment to Ia that the Washington
is high, IT that tn Brooklyn bridge is strong IT that Lillian Russen is a
blonde. These are commendable qualities, If you like. 1t tn same tmne
they RI indisputable. So it is with a consideration of the question ot Z
Mathewson. There is beside hm. , % moch Ior ina part. VI H.
Matty is six feet orr more, blonde, chews gum, yea a softh hat like III
outside If a cats fur has big. boring, blush grayish eyes, long, tangly
legs. and a vaudeville draught of $500 per week when lie wants tn stage
work 10 vac horn IL Facnrvyile pa where there arent n factories,
and wen ito Bucknen college till he found it nterferred toe much with his
baseball ambition. at which point he promptly threw Bucknen in the dis
card and sto nut for the land where everybody told the time b y a box score
instead Of a calendar.
There was a n opening IN the Taunton team, and Matty inserted him
other end Of the country, taking a whni at the Norfolk part of tn Viz
ginia league activities and being cordially greeted on his appearance. when
up eased out a triple At that, MaHy a game. and kept on improving
and learning and smiing> and getting himself liked, and in a little while
that was New York. an. it's Tin New York the boys been eve since. Which
is a matter Of about 10 years %
sudden phenom about him. He va with tn team almost a season before
he had a chance to show off,, and then there wasn't anybody around to get
$3.50 fair to middnng and thereabout He was in sundfsputed possession
If whate he referred to a s the roundhouse urve which is Is common $
men and even displayed it, OF without a certainp pride. He added at 1t
was a sleeping potion in fair Virginia. a haymaker and a belt over the left
portion of cut plug and then throw IN Ut plug away. 1t was limited nat
there WI more of distance between Norfolk and New York than is repre-
sentedb by the mere difference o geographical location
So MASTER lathewson, a bit thoughtful but accepting is fact what a
told him be the moree experienced, developed a drop that was G. KID by the
first thing you know, he had it working sc you could fool more people with
it than you could with the nimble pea and the shetering shells MaU
ginning of h next he selected t o take his new speciality into the field
Id see whether he could make thu BrookEyn's fall for it or not That
were champions of the league, and there ar papers to prove it, Anyway.
Matty got out On the diamond and put u p package after package Of the
ponent. had something to be wild about, and Matty went o and on ana
game after game, and never let up, season after season and If he
doesn't stop. he'll go on forever.
There m have beer another pitcher his equal, but If 70, he kept under
cover all his lfe Certainly n g pitcher anyone yer heard combined the
sense that marks Mauy. He'd be a pretty good guy even if h wasn't .
ban player. 1885 se