El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-04-24
Matty Makes 90 Victories Year
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Is Pitchers Have Won 90 Or. More
Nv Ernest LLANIeAN.

%HRISTF MATHEWSON'S stock
needs no boosting, but it takes a
~ further jump when the past per
Torrance sheets from 1905 TO 1914 are
consulted, these showing that annually
he has turned in 20 or more victories
for his aggressive boss-John J. Nc
Graw. Big Six did not wait until the
earlier named year TO acquire the habit
Of getting by the one score marx in
wins, but the figures from 1905 on were
taken for the reason that a ten year re-
suit could be obtained lTatry now has
won 20 or more games for twelve sue
CessiYe years, and when he fails To pro-
duce a score OF triumphs in a campaign
that fact VIII be as widely chronicled
fall out Of the society Of the Three Hun
bred
In ten seasons in the American and
National leagues and one in the federal
league. 73 pitchers have managed TO
win 20 or more games during one OF
more campaigns Three men-Halter
Perry Johnson. MOrdecai Peter Centeu-
NAL Brown and George Joseph Mullin-
turned the trick five times and the first
named may possibly equal Mathew
sons wonderful record. Vic Willis Adj
die Joss, Eddie Plank and Ed Walsh,
between 1905 and 1914 figured on the
pitchers honor list four times. while
men who have been on II thrice are
Larry Cheney. Howard Camnitz. "RubC"
Marquard, Grover Cleveland Alexander.
Nean Gregg, Frank Smith, Russell Ford
and Jack Combs.
Nineteen Are sOuthpavvs.
On the honor list OF the IS successful
slabmen are 19 lefthanders. those still
in major league captivity being Plank.
Marquard, Gregg, Packard. Rucker,
Hess, Covaleski. Russell and Collins
Any manager who has a sOuthpaw who
can win 20 games a year ought TO be
more than satisfied and probably is. In
"a Ia
OF triumphs registered by a portsider
in a season in p. .Rube" Waddeu got
this mark in 1905, when the White Ele-
plants won their second banner. and
Guy Harris White. Of the White SOx,
equalled it two years later.
Giants and White SOx Lead.
The Giants in the National. and the
" hlte SoX in the American, have had
winners In ten seasons 20 of AIcGraWs
moundsmen have won 20 or more games
for him, while in Chicago Old Roman
Comiskey has paid salaries 10 IA
athletes who have done similarly. In
the camp Of the St Louis Americans
there hasn't been a pitcher since 1903
who has been able 10 register 20 vic
tories in any one pennant pursuit The
Cardinals in ten years have had only
one man capable Of turning such =
trick. He was Bob Harmon, now a
Pirate
Records Of the last ten years show
luaL MdLueMsOus IN the National ana
Walsh, Johnson. Coombs and Wood, in
the American, are the only men who
have succeeded in winning thirty OF
more games in a year. Walsh and
MathewsOn each had their best seasons
when their teams Just failed TO win
championships, Chicago's big reel Diliug
uD 40 triumphs in 1908 and New York s
Big Six registering 81 successes the
same campaign Mathewson in 1905,
won 81 cOmbats. Walter johnson. like
MatheWson. has skipped by the 30 mark
twice-in 1913, when he landed SO con-
tests, and in 1912. when he brought
home %. Joe Wood captured 80 tus-
sizes in 1912 and Jack Coombs 81 in
1910. Claude Hendrix. 1IOrdecaf Brown
and George Mullin are credited with
having won % games during a cham
pionship running
Figures Tell the Tale.
These figures show the men in the
majors who have succeeded in winning
p or more games in a season. from !
1905 TO 1914 and also the number OF I
years each National, American and Fed
eral Lacquer has landed 20 or more con- I
tests;
Have Had Phenomenal Years.
Forty Walsh. White Sox. IN 4
1908.
Thirty seven victories-Mathe WsOn,
Giants. i'm 1908.
Thirty-siX yictories-Johnson Sena- /
Tors, in 1913.