Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-02
'R|G SIX WILL
PROVE He s NOT
DOWN ANDOUT.
athletics viii Find Giants Vet
s-ar HurIer as Great as He
Was in 1911.
BY J. W. McConaughy.

IIE u. w. Al1COIC 81
WV YORK. oct. about seven
n ,as~e ago a hungry band of
--.r-eaters arrived in New
v,-. .-am chicago for the purpose
A., engaging in a series of ball games
.r.- ,n4 worlds Champions - the
rs~.s-awn Giants. The leader of
che visitors had made a number Of
.-s-ges In lis club during the win
..- and mad announced himself as
ava entitled TO consideration in the
.,r,-e wen worlds champions might
ba 10 f,r discussion.
Inst -r show him where he be
,o7ra5 Manager McGraw sent in the
great Vsthewson on the opening day,
and chem that which happened hap
rs-es When all outlying frag
mems ~ the score were swept up and
complied . was found that the result
r,s 10 20 o New Workers. CROPPED
.-s,r wsv 70 their homes in thick
Fog NJ despair
"Va.-v - dome" was the hollow
moan that swept Ger all the city, as
Mr. Milton would have said If he had
been there NJ the time.
Since that CHASTITY afternoon the
giant blonde pitcher has been done
practically every season. Practically
t-a entire Western wing of the Base
hail Writers Association has been
ordering him scrapped at least, once
season FOR seven years. II is no
secret 70 them that Matty isn't there
a7v more They haven't kept II quiet,
either About once a month some ex-
-a-t out On the circuit gathers the
readers NJ his paper about him and
soemnlv lets them in for the news"
mat Nr Christv Mathewson IS
through finished. busted.
Then Big Six Shows EN-.
Whereupou Mr. Mathewson inCOn-
slderatey araEs one foot out Of his
baseball grave and manages to stag
ger through about eight straight vic
tories including seven shutoutS. This
is hts way ~ picking on baseball eX-
rerts
Every one knows that Matty Ia
91t0g. except McGraw, Matty and
some hundred odd earnest and ambi-
Gous hatsmen 0f the National League,
TO saw nothing Of few on the Red
Soy team II the sixteen big league
managers were lined up and asked
what pitcher they would like to send
In 10 stop a rally in the ninth inning.
fifteen and a half would answer:
"Mathewson." The other half of a
manager doesn't make any difference.
This summer the announcement Of
tae crumpIing up Of Matty has been
little late coming off, but it came.
]. IS on now He has been bumped
rather savagely in his last few
starts and the baseball undertakers
have called their annual convention.
We are warned that the Athletics
will knock his knob crooked. It Is
possible. They have beaten him be-
fore, but they were always aware
that they had been attending a per-
formance OF big league pitching when
The game was over.
some time this prophecy business is
bound to cash in. It's like betting on
ne races-you're bound to win once
y you stick TO II all your life. But
AatF "a comfortably under 35, and
PROBABLY has at least five years more
n big league pitching in his arm and
especially in his head.
Grandest Pitcher in Game.
10 the meantime he ia and has been
me grandest pitcher in the game. He
can make a baseball do anything but
sa- breakfast food. He is one of the
.F" pitchers that didn't tackle the
sp'oa" when 1t burned up the Ameri-
ao league. He didn't need II. He
loesH Z need half Of his stuff" one
.1aIleF or the time-because he
pN.aes a baseball with his brains a
wei. as with his arm.
HIS arm is the one tool oP his
T3ae. and ne uses II carefully. as an
L.e."gent workman should, He
s.ghes about half as many balls as
S S-e average big league twirler. He
-oeSnt forget that he is one Of nine
I-l on the field and that the other
g-sat are willing to earn their paw.
MS control is the most remarkable
VI any pitcher in the history Of the
sn- ana. as he rarely deliberately
out an amazing number of
i, - ua..S cut the plate In one nine
.s ,,,''s game he came through with
-t, sounding record of having
-s1 only Is balls, On another oc-
5o'--lls time against the Cubs
g. |oR-d have made a record OF
Zimmerman Pei S''o'elII loulihs oL
NAV, tu'sler how important the game
5s,s. De Matty never works. any
bscs,,.-., nan Is necessary. This rs not
80, $3.50 ne Is lazy, but because he is
T't- ~. For instance, in the series
a., We Yankees a couple of years
az never used his famous fade
asso. with two exceptions. In both
br.g J was critical time, and in
r67,-,..aseS the "fadeaway" was a
.ars mystery to the Yankee bat
L. n he had been shooting it at
,Hs-- .l..Seriminately there is fair
-s.. t1at 1t might have failed in
Developed "Fadeaway."
la0eaway'' was developed az
49,. ~- n Matty's determination not
.n-- mis- arm off" He discovered
,,s. S ..ESt season in the big league
SIN .a.ler could be fooled with a
ors M as readily as with fast
a5ar. .@Ee was never any trouble
ga7ss- 's .aSt ball. II was always a
5e ne then praCticed a slow
SEES, as one OF his stable as
.--a the fadeaway.
f. r- .'tN> this bail but Matty.
20 d. -''-nes to tell anyone how
aver TO- ont no other pitcher has
-se- 1t. He holds the ball.