The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-19

In About i,ooo-Lame Arm Affected
Veterans Usefulness After Years Of
Constant Service.
Denton Tecumseh Young has passed
from baseball's activities.
The grand old man of the game after
twenty three years in harness has de !
cided to capituate to the inevitable. !
The grip Of time has manacled an arm
of iron that for almost a quarter of a
century proved the greatest stumbling
block ever thrown into the middle of a
diamond.
Cy Young passes out of the national
pastime. but his name will live as long
as the great summer sport flourishes.
This honored veteran, who has passed
the forty-eighth milestone of life's
journey, decided few weeks ago that
he had outlived his days of major
league usefulness. He then notified
the Boston Nationals that it was i'm
possible for him to round into win
ming form. A sore arm, which afflict-
ed him this spring for the first time in
his brilliant career, failed to respond.
Rather than besmirch the most won
derful pitching record Of all history
Cy Young decided to retire to his Ohio
farm to spend the rest of his days till
ing the soil. No minor league ball
could satisfy a spirit that had tri-
umphed for almost twenty-three years
in the fastest company.
L.. tro oU;n ir n
ing of Cy. He lived, both on and off
the field, life of which the best might
be proud. One Of the most unassum-
ing characters that ever graced the
diamond, he always set perfect eX-
ample to both team mates and asso-
ciates. As a veteran he was always
free with good advice to the young
sters, and many a star pitcher of re-
cent years owes much of his success
to the wisdom of the retired star.
In point of effectiveness and term of
usefulness it is doubtful if Young's
remarkable record will ever be ap-
preached. In the twenty-five seasons
Of his experience-he did not appear
in the box this year for the Hub team
-Cy Young undoubtedly worked in
more than 1000 games. He is officially
credited with 500. of which he won
500 and lost 313. Two hundred games
is a very conservative effort for those
pastimes in which he helped, without
being credited either with victory or
defeat in the twenty-five years of his
activities.
Last June Young made his 1911 de-
but at Washington and clinched his
five hundredth victory. He was a
member of the Cleveland club at the
time, but later in the year was uncon-
ditionally released. Boston picked him
up, and he celebrated his re-entry into
the National league, after an absence
Of ten years, by banking the hard hit
ting Pirates. The night that Young
won his five hundredth victory year
ago Christy Mathewson exclaimed in
admiration:
young is the greatest pitcher that
ever lived. If only I can ever last to
win 500 games I'll be willing to lie
right down after the battle and die
happy"
George Moreland, then manager of
Canton in the o. and P. league, dis
covered Cy in 1890. Young pitched
against his club and showed a lot of
class.
THAT boy of yours should be playing
ball." said George TO the elder Young
after the game. "He ought to be get
ting $50 a month" This information
almost knocked the old man dead.
'Wil you give him thatF" he finally
managed to ask. Denton Il. was en-
gagged on the spot. That day marked
the end Of the rail splitting career of
the Tuscawaras county youth.
When Young was uniformed he pre-
sented a grotesque appearance. His
shirt was much too small for his barrel
like chest and his collar wouldn't but
ton by an inch and half. The White
Stockings, led by Captain Anson, We're
Cleveland's guests, and the laugh that
greeted Denton T. that day was loud
and derisive. But when Young breeZed
home on the chin strap an easy victor
there were 10000 cheers for every pre-
vious jeer. He held the hard hitting
SOx TO widely scattered hits; had fan
ned three of their best batters in a
row, including the redOubtable Anson,
That game made Cy Young. He prizes
it today far beyond any other perform
ance Of his life.
Cy Young can afford to take his ease.
He is well provided with worldly goods.
He owns a 800 acre farm at Paoli, o.,
where he has always lived during
the off season. He is the pride of his
county and community. They say in
Paoli that he is the best farmer in
Ohio. So no one need worry about his
future.
Young is living monument of the
benefit of clean life combined with
physical development. He was always
a hard worker on his farm and on the
diamond. Early in life he cut out beer
and liquor drinking. He never smoked
The last several years, when his great