Bisbee daily review., 1921-10-01
BASEBALL FANS HONOR B|G S|X
 AT POLO FIELD
Thousands Visit Scenes of Many of Stars Games;
 Christy is Absent

SARANAC LAKE. N. Y, Sept 3O- Christy Mathewson. for fifteen years the idol of baseball fans in America. remained at Saranac Lake today, while thousands of baseball enthusi- asts gathered at the Polo grounds. New York City. scene of many of
 Mathewson's triumphs in baseball to | pay tribute to him.
 Mathewson, one of the greatest pitchers known to baseball past or ] pI esent, has been here for more than ! year fighting the greatest battle of his life-that against tuberculosis. The hero of championship races in
 he National League and of worlds series games, too. was anxious to at l tend the testimonial to him but be- 1 cause of the long distance he would have had to travel and the confusion which would have attended the dem- cnstraticn for him had he done so, he
 was persuaded to remain here. In | spirit, however, he was there. Showing the same high purpose and | iron nerve that carried him to vic | tories and placed him on the highest | pinnacle in baseballs hall of fame. | Mathewson today is winning his fight | for life. year ago last July he came
 here in quest of health. He was here | only a short time when he became se- ] riously i'll. He was in bed for 13 | months.
 Makes Hard Fight
 But Mathewson has fought in the
 sick bed as he had foughp on the baseball fields. And today his battle
 for life appears to have been equally
 as successful as his struggles on the
 diamond. Today Mathewson looks like the Mathewson of old. He ap-
 pears to be normal in weight and so | greatly has improved in health that now he is permitted to take automo-
 bile rides and short walks in the will | lage. He'll soon be allowed to go
 anywhere.
 Last month was perhaps one of the hapiest in Mathewson's life. On Aug ''st 12. he was 51 years old. He says i it was his happiest birthday. He
 passed the day quietly with Mrs. Math
 owson and their son. Christy, Jr., and
 received messages from all parts of
 the country, congratulating him on his lond uphill fight for health and wishing him a speedy recovery. Still Loves Baseball
 i Despite his long illness baseball is still the subject closest to Mathew
 sons heart He has followed very closely the peDnant races in the two big leagues. New York's feat in com
 ing from behind in the National
 League face and passing Pittsburg brought much joy to Mathewson, as did a telephone conversation he had
 with John McGraw, manager of the Giants, after New York had defeated Pittsburg in the second game of their
 last series in Pittsburg. It was as a member of the New York National
 league club under McGraw that Math
 ewson achieved his greatest honors in baseball.
 Mathewson's brilliant pitching help
 ed the Giants to win the National League pennants in 1904. 1905, 1911, 1912 and 1913. In the worlds series of 1905 against the Philadelphia Am
 ericans, Mathewson pitched three of the five games played. wory all three and did not allow Philadelphia to
 score in the twenty seven innings, a record uneuualled in any worlds SC
 ries. The defeat ot the Giants in 1911
 and 19l2 bv Philadelphia, and in 1912 by the Boston Red Sox was no fault | of Mathewson. Indeed, baseball eX-
 perte declare that Mathewson pitched the best ball Of his career in the se'
 ries of 1912 only to be defeated by | errors.