New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-24
IRWIN WATCHES
GIANTS MENACE
HIS OLD RECORD
Former Providence ShOrtstOp
Roots for McGraw to
Beat II.

One Of the most interested specta-
tors at yesterdays doubleheader be-
tween the Cardinals and Giants was
Arthur Irwin, former scout and bust
ness manager Of the Yankees and now
business manager of the Toronto club
CT the international League. The Peer
less Scout, as he is Familiarity known
70 his friends. was the guest Of honor
in the press box.
Those Saturday games meant as
much 20 Irwin as to any one interested
either directly or indirectly, not ex-
GLIDING John J. McGraw and his plucisy
followers. For in the long ago of 1854,
in the heyday of his athletic career,
Arthur Irwin was one of the most for
midable stars of the Providence cham
pions that set the record of twenty
consecutive victories which those Giants
were so vigorously attacking. Irwin
was the shortstop of that old team
whose accomplishment has stood proof
against the challenge OF the greatest
clubs Of modern times.
one then can readily appreciate the
sentiment to Irwin OF yesterdays
titanic struggles meath the shadows OF
the Coogan bluffs. To Twins credit
be it said that ne was roofing hard Tor
the flesh and blood of the present day
rather than for the ghosts OF the past.
I'm interested, of course, in the rec
ord Of the old Providence club admit
ted Arthur, but my heart is wrapped
up in baseball OF the present, not the
game of thirty years ago.
81 should dearly like to see McGraw' s
club break our record he conceded:
Some team that out there" he unused
as Herzog hobbled over for a wonderful
stop on Hornsby, even though he failed
to get his man.
81 do not see how any Of them arc
going 10 stop the Giants" Irwin con-
tinued. ITS the best team I've seen
in thi 'ty-two years.
Irwin was asked If ne thought the
strain likely TO impair the Giants. lie
was asked whether Prov dence was ner-
yous the day it finally was stopped.
Nervous nothing. sputtered the
Peerless Scout. why, by that time
we didn't think anybody could stop us.
ut was Radbourne who went down
TO defeat Radbourne, the greatest
pitcher that ever lived. Why, he won
eighteen of the twenty Connolly won
the other two, and he really out
pitched Jimmy Calvin, of Buffalo, that
day our string was broken. The luck
was against Radbourne, that is all. He
was shut out . 10 o. Right after that
heartbreaking loss Radbourne went out
and won nine more in row. what
pitcher now can reel off victories stead
ily day after day?
Buffalo had grand team then, too
admitted the Scout. They had the
Big Four-Dan Brouthers. Hardie Rich
ardson. Rowe and White-across the
inner line from first 10 third. This was
the big four that three years later
won the worlds championship for De
troit from the 81. Louis Browns.
"Radbourne and Connolly were or
pitchers, with Gilligan and Mathcr %
catch. Start was at first, Farrell a.
second, Denny at third and myself a..
short. Cliff Carroll, Paul Hines and
Paul Radford were in the outheld.
But what grand old fellow Rad
bourne was. Wen never see his like
again. Much as | adore Mathewson and
deeply as appreciate Alexander,
neither was in Radbourne's class.
"Come on, there, Herzog! This is the
enc to hit! Slide. Burns, slidel"