Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
BIC SIX WILL
PROVE He : NOT
DOWN ANDOUT
Athletics Will Find Giants Vet
eran HurIer as Great as He
Was in 1911.
Bv J. w. McConaughy.

TE,A NtRk, DtJ- --ApouI seven
\ Years ago a hungry band of
u.u-eaters arrived in New
v.r. from Chicago for the purpose
NJ ...saEtug IN a series Of bail games
a... rho Worlds Champions the
u....rovu Giants The leader of
ia. VISITORS had made a number of
changes in his club during the win
.sr .n5 had announced himself as
.r- Untitled to consideration in the
s-..-p When worlds champions might
na .p for discussion.
-... d, show him where he be
.-rraa Manager McGraw sent in the
-r.a- Nrathcwaon on the opening day.
and then that which happened hap
ra-ag When all outlying frag-
-..,.s of the score were swept up ana
.aur'ad IT was found that the result
u.- 40 20 o. New Workers groped
....r way TO their homes in thick
f- oe despair
.lra,ty is done was the hollow
moan that swept Ger "a the city, as
Mr. Milton would have said If he had
nrar there at the time.
Since that CHASTITY afternoon the
gan. blonde pitcher has been done
practically every season. Practically
PHI. entire Western wing Of the Base
BAH Writers Association has beer
ordering him sCrapped at least, once
"a season for seven years. II IS no
s.. ret rn them that Matty isn't there
any more They haven't kept II quiet,
either About once month some eN-
merit out on the circuit gathers the
70. dcrs Of his paper about him ana
s,.omr'v lets them in for the news
shat MI Christy Mathewson is
through. finished, busted
Then Big Six Shows EN-.
Nhereupon Mr.. Mathewson incon-
s..erare'y drags one foot out OF his
baseball grave and manages tn stag
ger through about eight straight vic
tories including seven shutouts. This
is his way Of picking on baseball eX-
uer.s
Every one knows that Natty is
slipping, except McGraw. Matty and
some nundred-odd earnest and ambi-
Hous Dptsmen of the National League.
rr say -c+Sing Of a few on the Red
Soy team. If the sixteen big league
managers were lined up and asked
what pitcher they would like 10 send
IN 20 stop rally in the ninth inning,
fifteen and a hals would answer:
Mathew son" The other half Of a
manager doesn't make any difference.
This summer the announcement OF
'ao urumpiing up of Matty has been
little late coming off, but 1t came.
II IS On now He has been bumped
rather savagely in his. last few
starts. and the baseball undertakeTS
have called their annual convention.
We are warned that the Athletics
Do,
possible. They have beaten him be-
fore" but they were always aware
ma, they had been attending a per-
'ormance Of big league pitching when
me game was over.
some time this prophecy business is
bound 'o cash in. It's like betting on
The races you're bound to win once
r You stick 10 it all your life. But
Mat'N IS comfortably under So and
probably has al least five years more
NJ big league pitching in his arm and
head specially in his head
Grandest Pitcher in Game.
In me meantime ne is and has been
the Erandest pitcher in the game. He
can make a baseball DO anything but
ear breakfast food He is one of the
70" pitchers that didn't tackle the
sr'na.. when it burned up the Ameri-
can League. He didn't need it, He
.'oS0 need half of his STUFF one
quarter Of the time-because he
i'''"os baseball with his brains as
well ass with his arm.
arm is the one tool Of his
'ra"" and Hr uses it carefully. as an
1'".HSent workman should. He
h.'o7es about half as many balls as
pc IForage big league twirler He
..'sr forget that he is one Of nine
mon ON he field and that the other
fEt are willing to earn their pay
II control IS the most remarkable
"HE pitcher in the history of the
'''1' nd as he rarely deliberately
nos out an amazing number Of
.~ balls rur the plate. In one nine
'".ng game he came through with
r." oundinE record Of having
"'n"1o only - balls. on another oC-
as.on-thts time against the Cubs
would have made a record Of
bar for the persistent fouling Of
zimmerman.
N' matter how important the game
ne. Matty never works any
-Ts"r than is necessary. This is no.