Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-03-30 | Page 11 | Celebrates Forty-Fourth Birthday Anniversary

CELEBRATES FORTY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY "Cy" Young Has Won 504 Games and Lost 306 In Twenty-two Years' Twirling. KANSAS CITY, March 29. Dcuton T. ("Cy") Young, who is here with tho second division o the Cleveland American league baseball squad, is -14 years old today. 1 Fc was the rccip-lent rccip-lent of numerous telegrams of congratulation congrat-ulation from baseball players and followers fol-lowers o? the game. Yotmg was .born at, Gilmorc. O. This is his twenty-second year in major baseball, he "having joined the Cleveland Cleve-land club in 1S90. Ho is in better physical condition now than he has been for two years. .He scouts the suggestion that he is ready for retirement. retire-ment. To date Young has won 504 nnd lost 30G games lie has pitched in the major 'leagues. This gives him a winning percentage per-centage of .G22. The veteran player's record shows that in the last ten years he lias not passed as. many men as he did in the Jirst ten years of his play-tug, play-tug, indicating that he is acquiring control con-trol with age.