| Show i m Sad Sam Jones to Quit iJ After Equalling Mark Mar s 's 1 I For Service on Mound Mund S o S By JOE WILLIAMS Special to The Te Telegram NEW YORK Sept 7 They 7 They are s saying ying this will be sa sad saS Sam m. m Jones Jones' last year as s a baseball chucker And they ar are arc probably right The Ohio Clover kic kicker has been dealing major league stuff off the arm for or 22 years ears That's a long long time even when you say it real fast It may surprise you mildly as It did me to know that only only one one other man ever pitched major league baseball this long and and at that he had what you might call a pull In the weights pJ a I temporary advantage advantage tage that came with a shorter pitching distance This man manold was old Cy Young 4 who like Sad Sd Sam came from froman an Ohio farm Old Cy started in 1890 1 and called it a ca career reer in 1911 This 4 does not include a brief hitch later Sam aam Jones on with the Fed Fed- eral league which was something of ofa ofa a burlesque anyway Sad Sam came up in 1914 and is bowing out nt at the end of the current season Cast In the Herculean or male Mao Mae mold old Cy was a tenton tenton tenton ten- ten ton tractor for work In e eleven even i years he had bad pitched hed almost almo t as many games as it t took ok Sad Sam Sara I two twenty-two years to turn in He was working every fourth game game- game I full tuu games too for the most part and the year ear before he quit he worked in 34 games Sad Sam wasn't built that way He had to conserve his energy As Asa a result he became celebrated more as asan an antique than an artist To have l lasted sted as s long in the majors majors majors ma ma- jors as old Cy is something of of- ofa a distinction and Sad Sam is entitled to make mako the most of ot it This is about the tho only distinction he can share with the Patriarch of Paoli In no other detail docs does his lils r n reccord rec- rec ecord e- e cord compare with that of ot the orIginal origInal original inal work horse Sad Sam merely s stayed around twice as 83 long col- col In his role as ILS the 1 of the tho mound what did Sad Sam think of ot baseball or did the gentleman ever take tako the t trouble to think My two twenty-two years in baseball baseball base base- ball crackled the old fellow with the long gray beard have havo taught me that it is I. always darkest before dawn and that the quarterback should always kick on the f fourth down What v-What did the tottering old oid S wreck think about the game as it is Interpreted interpreted interpreted inter Inter- by the young squirts of to today to- to day was day was it of a pattern Colonel Abner Doubleday would be bo proud of Well Vell yes and no he wheezed calling up visions of that bright Sunday afternoon when he whizzed the third one past Pop Anson at X You see the game gam is different now There is the e radio and tho the gasoline buggy and the Old Cy was one of the tho biggest men that every walked waked to the moun mound l. l He weighed pounds and stood w well ll over six feet By contrast Sad Sam is no bigger than a waltzing mouse At his peak he never weighed more than pounds And yet he lasted two twenty-two years on the big time long en enough ugh to catch up with withold withold old Cy supreme among the rubber arms But there 14 an Important difference difference differ differ- differ differ- I ence and it is is a difference that brings the physical disparities of ot the two men Into focus Old Cy pitched a total of games during ring his stay in the m majors jors while Sad Sam pitched only oCly Naturally old Cy won quite a few more games a total of to tolie to lie be e specific Ip establishing a mark that is reasonably certain to last as long iong longas as the game itself Sad Sam has won himself games up to date and has bas lugubrious hopes that he may win one or two more morl before the season ends S Young Used Size and Stamina to Win I While Sam Sain Has Pitched Only Contests t twice ic as s much Jo dough gh and did only half halt as m much ch work You would think that simply by sitting on the bench for twenty- twenty two years a a pitcher w would uld manage tp to o contribute some extraordinary exploits to the records of the ot the game But a study of the I records shows show's that Sad Sam contributed buted very l lit littie little lit lit- t tIe tle aside from a no hit game gane against the Athletics in 1923 He doesn't appear as a n leader in any any any- thing He was wa just a pretty good pitcher who kept going a long Um time He Ho certainly wasn't d from the same heroic fabric as old Cy Few of the moderns are nrc Mea Me Measured cured by present day standards Sad Sam was a very competent performer per per- former even if it he never will wili make anybody anybody's alI ti all tithe rie star all team He Ha early learned the subtleties of pitch pitch- ing That was the secret of his career that career that and a gift girt for solid SoUd foods foods' and solid sl slumbers Radio and nd Qt Quintuplets Explain Difference Between Present Game Came and Bat Battles es of Old qui It l. l Is just one ne thing after another Is Mussolini still after Halle Hafle Sel Selassie ss e Good idea He can p put t him in the outfield an and call him a Cuban Tho The withered old ld gent refused to comment on the jazz age age feminism the decadence lot of the Am American drama the Mexican expedition or orthe orthe orthe the physical hazards of th the flying wedge in football I t dont don't want to be sticking my oar in in things I dont don't know nothing about he mum mum- bled This modern ages age's too fast for me rue an anyhow V. ho With this Sad Sam m rolled up his whiskers climbed into a long fl flannel hannd han flan n- n nd nel nightgown amid a fierce rattling rattling rat rat- flIng of bones dropped his false teeth in a a glass of ot water and went to bed have to excuSe excuse nrc me sonny he said I II ma may have to pitch a header double-header against thore thoe Yankees tomorrow |
