Show MATTYS MATTY'S COLUMN COLUMNS S Sport Comment and Views Vie By Christy Mathewson the New York Giants' Giants Famous Pitcher 1 Copyright 1015 1915 by tho the Wheeler Syndicate Inc Wonder If He Means Howard I Ehmke The ordinary young pitcher as soon as he conies comes up to tho the bi big league thinks it i it altogether different frOm the tho minors much r and aU all that and lie bo ho gins inquiring ng to find out what this batter likes likes and m what ho The result remU is that Hint ho he is 19 filled wIth a lot of bad information and when he be goes in thero and tiles to pitch piU-li bo ho is is tr trying ng to remember all aU he be has beard Leard and doesn't doesn t do 10 anything except pass a n lot Jot of men Batters will hit ono one twirlers twirler's curve curvo ball hall and and another's last fast one It is foolish to tell a youngster that a n certain cor tam tain hitter can cant can't t touch a fast ball or a slow one ono Much lIch depends on his bis style le of delivery Each pitcher should study out tho the p peculiarities ot or hitters for himself if ho he has any ambition in him I would stron strongly y advise this course Right Bight now the young pitchers are all aU led over high salaries and aDd demanding demanding demand demand- jn ing them and ana think too little about their work When a young twirler is bought or drafted ho he thinks that he ue should get et almost as much as walter waiter Johnson John John- son Tho The impression prevails among a lot of minor minor 0 youngsters and their theirS advisers that no player in the tho b big lea leagues es would look at a salary of less thau than Clarko Clarke Griffith was complaining to mo me about the attitude of a recruit pitcher ho was t trying ng to got get et from the Coast Const lea league who had been badly advised by somo some friends I sa saW Griffith a short time before I left for Cuba n This kid only started iu in the Coast league e bUo last year complained lC Griff Ch tT peevishly pee and ho made mado a pretty good record out there thero I took a chance ou on him mm him but hi his t brother rother-In rother law IS is a n lawyer or something and ho had advised the th kid not to sign for less than He told mo me in the last letter he wrote that it wa was ray my final chance and that ho be would woud jump to tho the Pe Federals oras if I did not meet his demands I wrote back and asked him to jump to tho the Federals or to a much warmer place for all nIl I 1 cared His brother in Jaw believes behoves that tho the boy would get stuck if he worked for less Jess than and 1 Ill I'll bet tho law brother has never neer earned at law Jaw in his bis life Griffith is dead right In these theeo days when baseball jobs are aro so scarce a voting fellow of promise is foolish to pass up a chance to go int into the tho bi big league My Iy advice ic to all al young players i is to o climb in and work their heads o off in an effort make and then air their demands after the to good salary they havo hayo convinced convinced con con- vinced a manager that the they carry something to sell seU which is worth buying I Players All Have Hobbies A letter lotter has bas b en forwarded to me from some follower of the tho game ame askin asking what the big league ball ban player does docs with hi his time when he ho is on the road wita with wit witha a team LOU ion only work about two hours a a. day says the writer What do you do the tho rest of of- of tho tho time timot timet Life Lifo on tho the road is not such a 3 luxury as the fan imagines After a recruit has been around the circuit once ho he has bas seen Been all the tho sights he wants to see as a 1 rule rulo Most players sleep until 9 or 10 o'clock eat their breakfasts read tho aper papers and go o o to tho the park about 1 The Tho games in road towns outside of Now ow York ork road rond town towns owns to th the tho Giants start at 3 Some Somo men havo have hobbies Chief Meyers of the Giants is 11 interested in art and he spends a n good deal of ot timo time looking over pictures Schulte of the tho Cubs has bas sonic somo trotting horses and frequently looks over OTer the stock in a town and tries out somo some of the animals Tho local checker champion often comes after mo me with a challenge Some of us used d to take tako our golf clubs along last season and play lIn- in the morning until McGraw put a n stop atop to it lIe He recently announced ed the tho same policy for this year erkle and some of the rest rost of us used to play par on tho the roa road last Jast season especially in Pittsburg where they have havo fino links but I guess that road rond pastime is gone from irom the lla way Mac feels about it He i is surely Burely the tho boss too In the evening most of the tho players go o to tho the theatres Lots Lot ot S of them used to attend movies but somehow have o gotten the idea now that tho the tUcker flicker of the turns films hurts their eyes and havo have cut them out A member of the Giants has leisure on his hands durin during tho the sprin spring practice when McGraw is in charge That is one ono time of the year when hen U Mae Mac Mac J gets up early earl and he keeps all hands on the jump from right after an early breakfast until the sun has set It used to bo be McGraws McGraw's habit to sit flit around the lobby and see sec that all the themen themen men mon got into the hotel by midnight when hen tho team was o on the tho road but hut lately since sinco ho he has had no bad actors adors on his club bo ho has abandoned the tho practice |