Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-18
MATTY TO REDS FOR HERZOG
RECALLS DAYS OF BIG TRADE,
MATTY TO GIANTS FOR RUSIE
Sixteen Years Ago "Big Six" Made Big League
Debut With Cincinnati-Now May Return as
Manager to Turn Redland Tide
Rx GRANTLANp RICE

TT1HE first gossip that suggested Christy
i Mathewson as Cincinnati manager
turned the drift of thought back just 16
years
For Is years ago Cincinnati drafted
Matty from Norfolk in the Virginia League,
and then, a short while later, traded him
TO New York for Amos Ruse
This deal was worth at least half
million dollars to the New York Club, for
while Rusie soon plunged headlong below
human view, the Norfolk recruit began AZ
once the greatest pitching career that base
ball ever has known.
For, while Ruse won but few games for
the Red citadel, Mathewson in 16 years
has won 36S games for New York against
115 defeats And in five of those l6 years
Mathewson has been one of the premier
factors in lifting the Giants into first place.
In Justice to Reds
In view Of this past history, It would
be only justice for Rcdland to get back the
man she turned adrift nearly two decades
ago
There Is no telling what baseball fortunes
in both cities would have been changed If
Cincinnati had decided to hold the tall
young recruit and let Rusie remain in New
York.
AS 1t is, II would be fitting for Matty
to return to where he started and as a
manager make up for the many defeats
he would have saved as Redland star
Will Matty Deliver?
We have been asked anywhere from $50
to 1890 times just what sort of manager
Mathewson would make.
The test alone can determine this, for n
manager to make name needs three fac.
tors-the ability, the material and his
gers. such as McGraw and Mack, have been
able to develop or to get the material from
time to time. This is proven by the fact
that together they have won II pennants
with five builtover machines. But, leav-
ing all that aside, there is no reason now
in evidence why Matty shouldn't make an
ideal leader.
To begin with he has rare judgment and
keen brain. lie has all the experience in
actual play there happens to be. He has
been trained under one of the wisest men
that baseball ever has known. No other
player would carry greater respect. lie has
the necessary firmness, for his nature is
more of the decisive type than the con-
templative. No man has been more liked
or more respected, for when he was at
work it was generally recognized that three
factors We're on the job-a great arm. a
great head and world of courage.
McGraw Still Fighting
In place of two smashed setbacks John
McGraw has noe yet S-~en uf4 sha .Aa:t!s
against Brooklyn, Boston and the Philles.
The additions he has made to his club
viii give him a new stare and II he can
get his men away from the Jinx idea at
homs he still has chance with his great
offensive power to get up around the peak.
The Giant record away from home has been
sufficient to put the club we'll into the lead.
and If it ever gets the idea back that a
winning streak also can be started upon
home sod there may be four clubs left
in the National League hace in place of
only three.
The Games Greatest Player
AS we dropped into the Fanfest there was
the same old argument on that we had
often heard before They were trying to