New Britain herald., 1926-07-29
AUGUST 2S ID BE
 MATHEWSON'S DAY
Teams the Country Over Asked
 to Play for Memorial

On August 2S, and that's a Satur- day, more baseball will be played the country over than ever was staged for a single day in the his- tory of the game. according to plans just announced from national headquarters of the Christy Math- ewson Memorial Foundation cam paign, New York city.
 League teams, semi-pros, anna teur clubs in every city and town. are invited to put on a "Christy Mathewson day" game, all or the greater part of the gate receipts to help reach the goal in the fund now being raised 10 honor the name of the great "Matty" and to lift still higher the standard of base ball and clean sports.
 When ''Matty" passed on last year, from illness contracted in the service in France, not only the en- tire sports world, but all classes of people in every section of the coun- try paid tribute in some way to Big Six" gallant sportsman, cour- ageous soldier, kindly gentleman. The great men of baseball. and other great men, came from wide distances to stand in manly silence when they laid him away. The flowers of many states were bank ed high upon the mound. The greatest sports writers and athletic leaders of the country went on rec ord with tributes to this man that accorded him position little short of an idol.
 The more Christy Mathewson was talked of and written about the wider grew the wave of sentiment that swept the country, until now member of the Presidents Cabi- net, the Honorable James J. Davis, | Secretary of Labor, sits at the head of committee to raise a fund for | the building of two Christy Math- ewson Memorials, and one of New York's leading bankers, Mir. Charles H. Sabin, Chairman of the board of l the Guaranty Trust company, as 1 Treasurer, is receiving the contribu- tions.
 It was "A1atty" the man and sol | dier who, during his illness at Sara nae Lake, New York, started the movement for benefit fund and a club house there for the purpose of making less weary the hours of eX- service men who suffer as he did. | Part of the funds raised in the cam- 1 paign will go to carry out this | cherished desire of his last days. It was "Matty" the man, the ath- | lete, the super-giant pitcher, the l clean gentleman of sports who was | graduated from Bucknell University, at Lcwisburg, Pa, with a shining name in college athletics. It is ] within the shadow of his Alma , Mater that he now lies unconscious
 of what is being done to express | the unlimited admiration of the | thousands who knew him or knew of him.
 l Here at Lcwisburg, there will be
 erected as part of the equipment of his college, a Rotunda Gymnasium | for the physical training of athletes
 of the future, and as monument to
 the sterling qualities of manhood for
 which he stood.
 The National Headquarters of the
 Mathewson Memorial Campaign has
 requested this newspaper to publish
 this article and the coupon which
 appears below. This is an official 1 invitation to the managers of bese-
 ball teams of this community to
 participate in the success of Chris
 ty Mathewson Day." and thus to the
 nation wide campaign. sl
 This is the only invitation nec-
 essary, and prompt acton by man.
 agers of baseball teams is very in1-
 portant. Please fill in the coupon
 which indicates August 2S as the l (Continued on Following Page)