The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-11
GREAT RECORD OF
CHRISTY MATHEWSON

Christy Mathewson will. unless the
unexpected happens, finish the cam
paign of 1914 with a record of having
pitched at least fifty victories over
five Of the National League clubs. Up
to last Sunday McGraw's Master Me-
chanic owned 348 triumps, 81 of these
secured against the Reds, SO against
the Braves, so against the Pirates, 40
against the Phillies, At against the
Cardinals, As against the Superbas and
43 against the Cubs. His defeats to-
tailed 1913. Of which 81 were admin
istered by Chicago, 35 by Pittsburg, 21
by Philadelphia, 20 by st. Louis, 10 by
Boston, 16 by Brooklyn and Is by Gin
cinnati. His entire career in the Ma
tional League has netted him a per-
centage Of .681 and this percentage, it
is worthy of note, is higher than h a
made by twenty teams that have cap
tured championship honOrs in h
senior organization. ~
Scribes, not having the complete
record of Matty at hand, have i'm
agined that he went for the greatest
length Of time against Cincinnati with
out losing a combat. This Is not so.
big Six was beaten by the Reds in
1908, downed them every time he a c
ed them in 1909 and 1910 and then lost
to them again in 1911. In 1908, 1909
n 1910 Matty did not suffer a reverse
at the hands of the Superbas and in
1909, 1910 and 1911 Boston gained no
victories over him. His best record Of
this kinds, however, was hung up
against st. Louis, he losing n game
to the Cardinals in 1904 and then cor
quering them every time he faced them
until five years later.
Only during one championship rum
ning-that of 19O2-did Bucknell's
most famous graduate fail to win
games from all seven of his opponents.
That year he failed to subdue the Pr
rates. but the x year he more than
got back at the Clarkesonians by CON
q~uering them all eight times he oper-
ated against them-a record he never
has been able to equal against any
other club. The greatest numbe of
reverses Matty has sustained in any
one season has beer five, the Cubs
dealing him this number of defeats in
1906 and again in 1907. On the per-
centage basis, Matty has been most eff
fectiVe against Cincinnati, least so
against Chicago.
Christopher the Crafty will hardly
this year equal his wonderful record
of 1913 in the line of accuracy, when
he winged no one and passed only
twenty-one athletes. Matty already has
hit one man this season-Johnny
Bates of 'Cincinnati-and has ranked
thirteen players, these being Magee
and Cravath of the Phillies, each twice.
and Stengel and Smith of Brooklyn,
Higgins of st. Louis, Rudolph of Bos-
ton, Viox of Pittsburg and Phelan,
Safer, Heating and Leach of Chicago,
each once. One of the odd things
about the 1914 record of Mathewson,
who, as usual, has an excellent chance
Of being picked by the Chalmers jury
of newspaper experts as the player
most valuable to his team, is that he
has been slammed for eight home runs,
these having been made by Wingo and
Wilson of st. Louis, Connolly of Bos-
ton, Safer of Chicago, Luderus of Phil
adelphia and Daubert and Wheat of
Brooklyn. Wingo made w homers
off Matty, one, manufactured while
acting as "a pinchman, causing big
Six" to go down to defeat. Wheat's
four-bagger also meant a reverse fol-
the great New York hurlers, whose
complete National League record is
appended:
Mathewson's Record From 1900 to