Show MATTYS MATTY'S COLUMN Sport Comment and ana Views p t By CHRISTY MATH MATHEWSON th the th New York Giants' Giants Fa Famous Pitcher II Copyright 1915 1916 by the tho Wheeler Syndicate Inc Giants Have Been Out o of Luck Luch The training season this year ar has not been a particularly propitious one due one for the Giants The Tho w weather ather has been bad for good workouts and anc sore soro arms and other Injuries havo have de d George GeorFe Burns Is H laid JaM up up with his ankle But the biggest Jest gloom was cast east over the camp camp through tho the illness illness' ss' ss of ot RItter t the le young young- pitcher El Each Emich ch rna man 1 on U o team was Inoculated aa ns a result of or U It and md McGraw has kept us all all alf allver aller er ver the da daytime ime so as to divert rt our thoughts from r m the situation It seems as If It each spring some recruit develops de a a. serious illness One season young Hanley died in Marlin and nd his death made us all aU very gloomy naturally enough He was a splendid chap This year the Illness of or Ritter has had had its depre depressing effect and taken the tho edge off ort the spirits of ot the team It I is no wa way to et into condition for tor a hard race to be bo Inoculated with typhoid serum Perhaps It will mean a better start in the tIme race There Is a an old tradition of baseball that a good g spring training training- trip m means ans a bad beginning in the race If It the rule works inversely ln we should burn up the league this season I forget torbet the tho exact year but I think it was in 1013 1113 that the Giants returned from the south and McGraw said T j There Isn't a man on the squad with even a a. sore toe I never ne brought a team home In better shape for a championship race Boasted Too Soon But he boasted too soon We ran Into a mess of ot rain and cold weather as soon as we reached New York and the players payers began to havo have that fine tine edge dulled which they h had d carried back from tho warm South Tesreau lost his condition and was not right for tor several weeks after the season opened although ho tin had done phenomenal work in the spring exhibition contests on our way north He is a man who needs constant work once he starts and the Idleness hurt him After the Boston Koston Red Sox had won the worlds world's championship In 1912 they went to Hot Springs and had a splendid training trip in the sp spring ln of or 1913 From his earr early exhibition games it looked as If It Joe Wood was going to be better than he had been in his big year 1912 But the club returned In time to run Into some of or that Boston weather and the condition ran out of oC tho team like hike flour out of ot a ripped sack Wood had a very bad season seabon We re all feel tee a little little- blue Just now My Sly arm has b been n sore all nil spring and anci the Injury to Burns was WIlS a hard 1 blow ow Marquard Is the one pitcher who looks better than he has for tor several years v ars However a little sunshine when w we get north and nd on our wa way there will be a great tonic for tOI our OUI feelings and physical condition S S The other da day I was looking at a New York newspaper and I I aw that the military owners of the Yankees were c considering the pur purchase of ot a piece ce of ot property opposite the Polo grounds for tor a new park a fine tine situation for tor one This property y belongs to the tho Astor estate as does does' New York Tork it seems S S Cap Huston who is with his team at Savannah g getting it into shape Is missed at Marlin this spring as he has been a regular visitor with the Giants for several seasons He is the best company in the but we know he must stick sUck with his own club now McGraw yv believes ea that the purchase purchase pur pur- cha chase of t the tho Yankees is 18 going to be a a. profitable one Nobody would give the fans tans of ot New Nc York a better deal than Captain Huston and Colonel Ruppert he said the other day And I I look to see Bill BIB Donovan make makes a good od He let new bosses g manager will be let alone by his new You can count on that We Vc all hope that the Investment nt proves pro to he be a very profitable one And the new owners appear to have tho the right Idea Mea In in trying to get a park downtown rather than at e. e |