Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-03

est third baseraen in all times, Youngi kept up his wonderful work. He wonl 31 games and lost 10, and that was one of the reasons why Boston dnishedl second in the pennant race.
 The following. year he won 32 games and lost F and the Sox finished third. In 1903, however, Boston won the pen nant, and defeated the Pittsburgh Pi-l rates in the first of the modern worlds series. In 1904 the Red Sox again won the American League pennant, buttheI Giants, champions of the National League. refused to play the spost-sea-i son series. So it happened that Youngt took part in only one worlds series.
 Young remained with the Red Sbxi until 1908, and then went back tol Cleveland, where he got his start eigh- teen years previous. Cy stayed with the Indians through 1909 and 1910,i but the truest. of steel will buckle a1H1 der sufficient strain and his right arm began to lose it's power. The follow ing year he went back to the National League, with the Boston Braves, butt won only 4 games in nine starts andi retired.
 So, briefly, the story of Youngsi wonderful career is outlined. The cold, black type of the record which is appended below will tell in a meas ure just what this peerless veteran did, but only in a measure. His life .iSl rich in romantic story of the diamond,
 
 the many interesting sideligTts of His life. Suffice it to say, however. that his fame will never die in baseball.
 Cunning and Skill.
 Much has been written and morea1asj been said of the record of the marveI?l Ious Matty. Yet the story of Big SiK''l has not been fully told nor will it be- may hope now to equal the record of Young. He has not endured 50 longl upon the diamond, yet he shall endurel longer in tde story of the game. His shall be the kingly fame, though he was not king. for he rose to the heights through his cunning as well as through skill. They can all soar to the heights when the strength. is in the arm and the hop on the fast ball, but Matty was great even when these left him. His last years were triunps of the mind rather than of the arm.
 When Matty came up to the major leagues, sixteen years ago, he had as much smoke and speed as ,Rusie or any other pitcher. His drop was as great as that of the famous Jouett Meelzdn, hero of twenty years ago. His curve ball broke with a vicious snap, and he was a strille-Out pitcher. Yet with all ! his power Matty anticipated the day when that mighty arm would weaken. l He made a careful study of the battersi noting what each hit and where they hit it. Many time and oft he has 1 shifted his fielders in their positions and then caused the batter to hit the | ball right to them.
 He knew that his buIlet-Ii speed could not last forever, and when finally l the change came it did not find him un | nrepared. He was ever a wizard 1ni ] controlling the ball in it's flight from the rubber to the catcher, and with his uncanny knowledge of just where to place the ball he maintained his old effectiveness.
 When he lost much of his maIveiIousi | speed he developed that mystery ba1L ] of all mystery baIls-his famous fade l away drop. He ceased trying. to strike i the batters out and depended upon thel i men behind him. This worked to hist | detriment in a couple of battles waged for the worlds championship, but Matty, big in heart as he is physique 1 never whirnpeTed.
 Worlds Series Record. | NIatty stands today the only pitcher l in the game who pitched three con- | tests in a worlds championship series, and in winning them all did not all l low his opponents a single run. He 1 performed this prodigy sof pitching in ] the 1905 series against the Athletics. in those three battles he vanquished l Eddie Plank. Chief Bender and Andy i CCalzley who were in the heyday of l their pitching power. He did not do ! so well in the other games with the l Athletics and Red SOX, but errors and | boneheaded playing by the men behind 1 him were responsible for his defeats! | to a greater extent than any weak l pitching. 1 And now New York must bid fare well to this wonder pitcher. He has | been traded to the Reds along with ! two other players for Charley :Herzog, the manager of the iII-starred Cincin- nati team. l NorFoIk.-There is an epidemic of l sore thTOats in Norfolk.