The Washington times., 1920-01-17
BY FREDERICK G.. LIEB.

He was a big, husky farmer boy,
hard as the teeth in his pitchfork,
and the very air he eXh;.led had the
country scent of rusticity No better
disciple from down on the farm
ever presented his credentials to a
major league manager.
well, friend pumpkin, let's see
what you can do" said Pat Tebeau,
the fiery leader of the old Cleveland
Spiders of the National League.
They tell me you've been striking
'em out quite a bit up yonder."
Il reckon can strike them out
most anywhere answered the young
tiller of the soil.
And we reckon young Cy was right,
cause he kept striking 'em out long
after everybody else On that Cl"Nc-
land ball field on August 6, 1890 had
passed IN their big league uniforms.
The farmer lad was destined to be
come the most remarkable pitcher
baseball ever has known, Denton Te-
cumsch Young. the only twirlcr who
has hung up 800 major league vic
,ories.
Picked Nice, Soft Spot.
Tcbeau picked a nice soft spot in
which to give Cy his major league ini-
tiation. Ansons famous Chicago
Colts, who were fighting with Brook
lyn for the National League cham
pionship, happened to be in Cleve-
land that day. and Tebeau promptly
put Young to work.
But it was Young who initiated the
Chicago team, rather than the Chi
cago team initiating Young. That
powerful. corn-raised right arm,
which had created such havoc among
Ohio farmer batsmen, was just as eff
fcCtivc against the crack Chicago wal
lOpers. That fast sweeping curve
snapped by the Colt batters so fast
that they couldn't tell whether IL was
going or coming.
when the smoke OF the conflict
blew away and the damages were
counted il was discovered that An
sons initiating team had only three
singles and one run. Tommy Burns
got one Of the hits, Howard Earle the
second and Malachi KittredSe, batting
ninth. whackod the third.
Cap Anson Was BuffaIocd.
one Cap Anson, boss sluggcr as
weIl as manager of the Colts. had
four cracks at the young haysced.
and each time he returned to the chit
cago bench n much annoyed. greatly
perplexcd and somewhat dumfoundcd
ed Adrian. Hu'll show this young up
atari up next time: what did he mean
by trying to make a monkey out Of
the great cap Anson" But the next
time Cy's speed shoots were even
moro battling.
rs Interesting Ucnding.
Tho lead sCut out of Cleveland that
night makes interesting reading at
this time, som" thirty Years later.
On the hrst game Young, ClCNCland's
new colt pitcher, was given a trial aud
his debut was very suCCUssful Indeed
Anson's men mndc but three scatter
ing singles or him. In the early part
OF the game he struck out rvc men,
after that taking u easy aud dcnrud.
ing more on hts nrldcrs. Hutchinson,
the ChicREo pitcher, was AIT hard,
Cleveland won the gpmr Nv u H,nrc
OF 3 to I, Chicago Won the Hrroud
half OF the double hrndrr hy R,urr
OF 20 I, getting ~ hits On unrncid,"
Commenting on that l,pd at THE
late day We migm Say that the ~.
marks about the now volt idtuhrr'n
debut bclug "HuC,rpHrui indeed" wnu
very sucCulrutly pui, ~ tho Language
OF today wc'il cay u was ludcrd'
A few paragraphs hnuh we re.
marked that \uuUH NpH druiiuod to
become the Hnmr's Hfonirst pitchct.
Young was Hinoat us brud pitcher
when he broke ~ with cleveland NJ
no wRH duriuH ruv ur tho twenty-five
years IN Witch he starred ~ Americas
great ghmu. WIN n rrNcuth place
club he Won tour uut oi his Hrst rvr
games, though ~ tho other Victories
he was hit harder than In that nrst