Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-24
Veteran Expects to Win Major
ity of Games This, His
23d Season.

Cy Young, veteran of twenty-five
major league summers, was at his
normal weight on his arrival at Hot
Springs the other day. He declares he
will surprise all the skeptics who be-
lieved him all In by winning the ma
jority of his games this season. Young
has his own ideas on training, and an
nually takes several weeks of his own
system before joining his team.
1t will be Young's twenty-third year
in the major leagues, but the great
pitcher, who, with Bill Dineen,
snatched o wol IDS championship from
Pittsburg in 1908, can't see anything
significant In that. He looks hale and
hearty, and there isn't a trace of sore
ness in the great right arm that has
been the object Of his tenderest care
for these many years.
81 am not worrying about my future
in baseball" laughed Cy when inter
viewer. You see," he added, Tn just
like any ordinary pitcher. There are
days when I may not be just right. 1
have had such days through my whole
career; but when / am right / am as
good as ever. My arm isn't sore, and
l am as good constitutionally as ever.
II have been blessed with q pretty
good right arm and I have tried to AXE
the best of care of 1t. My system of
conservation has been based on nothing
more han ommon sense. l haven't
worn 1t out through useless massaging
and rubbing after games. Some day it
may go back on me, but that time has
come yet"
"Mathewson says he hopes to beat
your record of 500 odd games won,"
ventured a visitor.
More power to Matty,' laughed
Young. But he must not take it for
granted that I am done yet. l expect
to win many more games"
When Cy is reminiscent some of his
best tales centre around the old Cleve-
land Spiders and the Pittsburgh Pr
rates In the days of Mack, Bucken-
berger and Donovan. His fondest rec
objections, of course, centre in the great
1903 worlds series games between jim
my Collins's Boston Americans and
the Pirates.
"Too much work was showed on Phil
lippe in that ~series.' commented Cy.
"The deacon vas splendid Just then
and able to beat any team. But we
had too much of him. He won more
than his share, and it was only natural
that u fellows facing the same pitch
er so much would finally get a line on
him.
Collins Was Came.
II shall never forget to my dying day
the gameness shown by Jimmy Collins
In that series. We had been beaten in
three games and 1t looked awfully bad.
Boston fans, equally so loyal, were
wearied with the thing. Killilea, who
owned the club. was a fine man toward
all of us. but he couldn't pear those
three successive defeats. He vaulted
out of the grandstand after the third
game and went to Cleveland. Ban
Johnson. president Of the American
League, also saw little hope left, and
he, too, went to Cleveland.
Poor Jim Collins as game and de-
cen a chap as ever lived, was strand
ed. There he was'in Pittsburgh, among
the hostiles. with all the responsible
ties of a worlds series thrust on him.
Naturally our fellows were discouraged,
for 1t seemed certain that Pittsburgh
would get the other game needed to
cinch he blue ribbon of baseball.
Jim Collins called us together the
day Of that fourth game. He didn't
make n speech. He seemed . little