The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-10
Old eCyv Morgan Was Champion Comebacker'
 Of The Diamond

Many baseball players have had
 their ups and downs between the ma Isiors and the miners, but perhaps the
 cham pions of the stcome-backers'' was
 Henry Richard Morgan. Henry Richard, who was called "Cy'' for short, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio, thirty-six years ago to-day, Novem-
 her 10, 1878, and he spent large. part of his diamond career in trav- cling back and forth between the American League and the American Association Poor old ftCy'' got so mixed up and generally confused that much of the time he hardly knew which league he was playing in. Morgan's diamond pastining began in Martins Ferry, Ohio, with a semi protest onaI club. In 1901 he pitch ed for IIion, in the New York State
 League and the following annum he wore the uniform of Charleston. w Va The scouts first began to take mo- tice of the a1titudinous twirier in 1903 when he was playing with Fall River, in the New England circuit i 'sCsy',e looked pretty good to the St. Louis Americaps, and Jimmy Mo l Aleer who was then piloting the Browns, gave. him his first trip in fast company McAleer decided that he wasn't ripe for big league pluck1ng, and turned him over to the Mfnneap- olis N1i1lers for further seasoning At I called him, but "Cy's second eXper- fence with. the Browns was no more successful than the first, and again he was shunted back to the ATner1- can Assicoation. this time with In dfapapolis. He pitched great ball for the Hoosiers, and In the middle of the 1905 season he was given his third cbance with St Louis He stuck it out for the remainder of the season, twirling thirteen games, but
 when the call of Play Ball was heard in 1906 the lengthy Buckeye pitcher found himself back in the American Association St. Paul had
 him that year, and "Cy,' who was be- coming peevish. sought to show up 1 Jimmy McAleer by pitching major league ball.
 Morgan,s next appearance in the
 main show was in 1907, when he pitched for McGuire's Boston Red
 Sox. 'tCy'' remained with Boston un- til 1909, when Fred Lake, who had | succeeded McG uire at the helm of the
 Bostonians, swapped him to the .Ath- 1etics Connie Mack gave Boston Vic Schlitzer and some coin Ito boot, for the big twirler, and the canny Connie had no cause for regrets sCy his games in 1910, and helped the Athletics win the pennant, although he did not appear in the worlds se- l rfes, in which Eoombs and Bender were the pitching stars Morgan con 1 tinued to pitch good ball for the Atfi-' letics in 1911, but in the following year he went back and was again turned over the American Assocfa- i tion this time with Kansas City.
 'tCy'' was calledf t.the minstrel Of
 the diamond,'' and when his voice was right he could certainly warble.
 Of all the diamond stars who have
 taken to the stage, "Cy'' ranks among l the top-Hners.
 The minor league magnates. at I their Omaha meeting, will have a lot l of hard luck tales to tell From the | International, American Association and Pacific Coast Leagues down the ! line the minors have suffered severe
 ly, and it will be mighty difficult to | convince any of the nagnates that
 the financial depression is 'psycho- | logicaL'' In the International Lea l que and American Association scarce
 ly a club made any money, and the l Coast circuit had to transfer the Sac
 ramento club to San Francisco As flor the smaller circuits--ouch! Great 1 gobs of gloom will probably obscure the Omaha sky during the meeting Qeet13ns xusnoE aaA KpAAfss
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