Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 28 | M'graw Now Admits Matty, is Slipping

M'GRAW NOW ADMITS MATTY JS SLIPPING For the first time since Christy Math-ewson Math-ewson joined the Giants, McGraw admits ad-mits that the old -warhorse is slipping. "He hasn't the stuff he used to ear-ry, ear-ry, '' says McGraw. "The hop on his fast hall has disappeared, and Mattv 'a left arm and shoulder are trouhling him. The doctors who have examined him diagnose the ailment as anything from neurites to housemaid 's kriee. "The slipping of Matty is a blow to us and a blow to me. T alwavs knew iD the past that when we needed a game Matty could go out and get it for us. He never failed me in vears gone by. And now, that he isn 't in shape, that he isn 't able to win with the recr,. larity of old, there comes a big vacuum a hole that never mav be filled."