Show II ALL IN TWIRLERS MAY GRAB THE BUNTING J j FOR THEIR RE RESPECTIVE CLUBS THIS SEASON f Thirteen years ago this spring two young ball players left two o small sinai PennI Pennsylvania Penn Penn- I sylvania towns to join major lea league ball clubs One went Trent from Factor Factory Factory- rifle vilIe Pa to the tho New York Giants the theother other from Gettysburg to the tho Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Athletics Today these men teen arc the oldest pitchers from point of 01 service ervice in the bi big show They wre vre 2 Christy ty and antI Eddie Plank Splendid ol old boys bor the they are are crafty crafty 5 of brain and high up Ip in the tIle conservation conserva conserva of natural resources tion theory Scribes have sung their swan sons songs for the tho past past- three or- or four years rears but ratty Matty and Eddie still remain in the thickest of of the fight able and antI effective I r All in they often have been de de- elated to be but notwithstanding major major ma ma- jor league managers er would like to have yo several e of the same type as 39 this peer peer- hess I Big Bi Six and the brilliant Mack Mack- man nian nian left loft hander Last season Plank won twenty six games gaines and lost six sir six i with a te team m that finished in third place He was hea headed ed off by the dazzling daz daz- record of Toe Joe Wood alone tf J Mathewson hung u up UI a record of twenty three won an and twelve lost If Ift this is all nIl all in in then pitching supporters supporters sup Slip t porters of the Giants and of the Athletics Athletics Ath Ath- will not kick on in ha having a dozen like them on their clubs Have Hav to Rely on Matty When Boston won the American lea league ue flag a and the Giants flashed out in in front for the National cashmere and tho ho clubs were preparing to get et together to gather gether for the world s championship it was not Mathewson that was picked out to look after the tho lions lion's job for the tho Giants People generally fi figured that the blond master had served ed his time I But Rut who was the real leader when ben the tho I- I firo of battle went out edt N None Nono Jno other than the Bucknell nell star He Ho passed through h the tho rc regular ular s season ason with tJ tail taillights I lights j gleaming an and in the special events c proved a hero In Tn thirteen y years year ar Mathewson has pitched itched 58 game He has hag come coma out outon 1 on m the lou long end curl of 2314 n. n of them and ho he dropped a 8 a total of He has helped pitch the Now York club into four len league u pennants and anel into one worlds world's title Only once has Matty landed a percentage e less I than in his major career That was in 1002 when his credit mark at atthe atthe atthe the seasons season's close was Tho The fortunes fortunes for for- I tunes of the Giants were ere at their low est cst ebb that year To make up up for this in 1004 IDOl Matty won thirty five and lost ei eight ht games gaines ames and was honored with witha a decimal of Bi Big Six has averaged l practically twenty five victories vie vic tories a year One Record Hard to Beat Mathewson has hns one record that probably probably ably never will be bo equaled by a slab slab- man Ho He pitched in two p season post series without losing a contest In 1905 he shut out Connie Connio Macks Mack's team I in the worlds world's struggle le three times and amI in the tho 1010 1910 series between the tho two Now York teams he ho won three out of four games credited to his club Twice he has pitched no hit contests In 1902 he scored a victory of this kind against St. St Louis Juno 13 1905 ho he repeated beating the tho Cubs 1 to 0 O. But the most amazing amazing- part of Mattys Matty's record rec rae ord is that his most wonderful games have ha result resulted cd in defeat Tn In thirteen years Eddie Eddio Plank has curved five games less than Mathewson Mathew- Mathew son spinning out ont in all He won of them and lost gaining a 1 grand ancl percentage e of 68 He Hc was instrumental instrumental in in- in winning winnin four pennants for the thc Athletics and two worlds world's series Eddie Eddio never pitched for any professional professional team except the Athletics Mack fack got ot him direct from Gettysburg col aol le lege e. e His His first year vear out Plank landed seventeen victories and was on the short side ide eleven times Tn In 1908 1008 he fell feIl below the mark for or the first season of his career In Tn 1905 he was directly responsible for the Athletics Athletics' grabbing the bunting with twenty twenty- four victories anti and fourteen losses I Both of these sterling veterans are arc out ont after their fifth fla flag this year |