Evening journal., 1915-07-19
NATHEWSON ON
HIS Sixteenth YEAR
New York Giant Has Been
With Present Team All
That Time
HAS 800 WINS
TO HIS CREDIT

started on his sixteenth year in the
National League, all his time in the
majors having been passed with the
New York Giants, though the Cincin-
natl Reds once owned him and Connie
Mack of the Philadelphia Americans,
and Jim McAleer, of the St. Louis
Americans once had contracts with
him. It was on July II. 1900 that
Bic Six incidentally nobody knows
how he got this title ana all The ex-
plantations of its requirement have
been false) got HE nrst taste OF
high life,- though he nad been with
the Giants, then managed by George
Stacey Davis. some time previously.
The scene of Matty's debut was WASH
ington Park. Brooklyn. He was thrust
into combat with the superbas in the
6fth inning when the score was tied
at 5 all, the man he relieved being
Ed Doheny, who closed his major
league career as a member of the
Pirates.
The eccentric southpaws legacy to
the safe and sane Highlander (none
nuD was a pair of runners on the
bases. Joe Kelley. now employed by
the New York Yankees as their chief
scout, being the first man to bat
against the future and present star
of the McGraw forces. Joe trudged
at once and then Bill Dahlen raised
a sacrifice fly. not getting exemped
from a time at bat for doing so, as
that scoring rule did not go into ef-
feet until 1905 After Lave Cross
singled, Tom Daly then showed an
other fly to the outfield that let a
man score Charles Duke Farrell.
also an ivory hunter for Rupert
and Huston at the present time. got
stungs in the ribs with a wildly pitch
ed ball, and then Iron Man Joe Nc
Ginnity obligingly struck out. Ere
the contest ended the Superbas ac-
ouired six more runs, while the
Giants were harvesting two, and the
passage at arms wound up with
Brooklyn in the van, 13 to z.
Starts Only One Game.
The same year Matty figured IN ar
euments with the Pirates, Cardinals,
Cubs and Beansaters. the only game
he started being one with Chicago
This contest he lost, 10 5. Elmore
Cunningham, better known as Bert
who once was a team mate Of Fred
Clarke at Louisville, pitching against
him
It wasn't until 1901 that Mathew
son tasted the sweets Of victory His
first triumph came on April 26 Of that
year when he led the Giants 10 a :
to win over the Superbas, for whom
wild Bill" Donovan now manager
of the Yanks, operated on the firing
line The then Hanlonites were dis.
persed with four swats. This was
the start Of a run of eight wins for
Bucknell's best-known graduate and
the start Of his career as a hero He
went along downing everybody until
May 2S, Wien the pesky Cardinals.
with Red John" Powell hurling, low
cred his colors, l to o. The admirers
of Grover Cleveland Alexander. Wal
ter Perry johnson, Albert Mamaux
and Urban c. Faber may be shocked
tc learn that in the first nine games
Matty pitched for the Giants in 1901
bis opponents got just eight tallies--
and it was second-division outfit
that was backing him up. too.
Probably that was Matty's longest
winning streak. Il is certain that ais
most extended losing spasm came in
1902 when Horace Fosel tried to man
age the New Workers. That year was
the worst Matty ever had for he turn
ed in only 13 lriumphs as against 19
reverses. In May and June he figured
in six straight defeats and one lie
getting back to his winning ways on
July 8. when he topped the Cubs
over, to 0, Dusty Bob" Rhoades
pitching against him. New York's in
field, in tho early part of 1907. con
sisted of Harry OHaean, George
Smith, Heine Wagner and Jack Dunn
$50 Wins to His Credit.
Christy, when the present season
opened hao 360 victories to his cred.
II in the National League. as against
17S defeats. He had .the edge on ali
seven of his opponents and will retain
said edge when he decides to abandon
the national pastime. Mathewson has
bested the Reds "a times; the Braves
SO times; the Pirates, So times On
1903 he subdued them on eight oc
casions): the Phillies, 80 times: the
Cardinals. 40 times: the superbas. AS
times and the Cubs A times.
The Chioagoans lead in winning
over McGraw's master mechanic
They stood credited at the start of
the present pennant pursuit with 8!
wins over him. The Pirates had 36
the Phillies. %; the Cardinals. %,
the Braves, 21 :. the Reds. II and tn,
superbas. is. II Matty remains with
the Giants untn the end Of the 1e1l
campaign he ought. by that time, tC
nave hurled 400 victories for them.
Mathewson has pitched pair of no
nit contests in the National League
The first on July Is. 1901. against tn,
Cardinals, and the second, on Jun,
f3, 1905, against the Cubs In the
game with ST. Louis big Six" ISSUED
four passes and the Giants made on,
error. while in the fray with Chicago
he had perfect command, but Bill
Dahlen and Bill Gilbert of his sup
rorting company. each erred once.
Mathewson hasn't a record of one
hft games like Grover Cleveland Alex
ander but he flung over four. The fifs
was against Cincinnati on June IS
1908; the second against Chicago or
June 10. 1904 'be third against Pos
ton, on April 27, 1908, and the fourtl
and last against Brooklyn, on May 2
1910 The athletes who made the hits
IF him in these games we're joe Kel
ley, Johnny King Claude Ritche,
and Pryor McE,Veen. This is the rec