Show MATTYS MATTY'S COLUMN Sport Comment and Views I IBy By CHRISTY MATHEWSON the tho New York Giants Giants' GIant Famous Pitcher Copyright ht 1915 15 b by the Wf Wheeler Syndicate Inc Athletics Lack Pepper Connie Mack rack was complaining to lo some Pome fome of the members of or the Cubs the other da day elay that the lie pepper In itt his club is 19 as hard to find as a Ty y Cobb CobbIn Connie signed up to tolon In tho the hushes says sas several so of or his hs players are arc lon long term contracts which cant can't bo broken and that they haye hae he not shown as a. a much zeal and zest as ho commonly admires In a hall ball haI player In Tn fact tact Connie Is Is- Is much distressed over o cr tho ho outlook according to tho the Cubs who have played some exhibition games JameR with wih tho ho Not a n man in m my squad Connie said ld s BO 8 I have heard herd but has taken talton on wel weight ht since ho came caine ce to tho training camp A recruit complained to m moi mA tho tIm other ca day because I asked him to go so over some plays with one ono of or tho ho at nl night ht But I want to go o to tho the movies he growl growled dI d. d I dont don't think that bird ha haa ha much chanco chance of ot sticking H He didn't go o to tho the mo le movies either Mack bays bys tho the movies aro are a bad thing I for tor bl big leaguers and es especially es es- YOul youngsters When they come como up from a small smal town asserts Connie they have generl generally been In tho the habit of ln giving tho the moving mo picture shows a tumble regularly every vcr II night h. h as aM there then Is nothing much else to do In small townsand townsand towns townsand and that is the hi big pastime The They havo o a become bugs on tho the subject and you ou cant can't keep them hem out o of the thc The air and ventilation are aro generally Jon gen crl orally ba bad and tin tin- lw lit licker flicker of th the tho film fm hurts hurta their eyes Also J a lot of thorn them thor think more about the pictures than the they do abut about baseball which does docs not help their work worl any Movies Bad for Players McGraw feels eels the same wa way va about the pla players going to the movies movIes constantly constanty and has rousted ousted several everl of or the recruits who be began an to net act as us asIf asif I If the they thou thought ht they were vere part art of or the furniture In tho the theatre and had to tobe tobe be on hand Just as iM soon as nR the lie ticket seller seler took the slide or oft off the glass slot Jf U It Isn't one thing Its It's Is I's another muttered McGraw the other night Either Ether automobiles or moving pictures Well Vel at that It I Is hotter heter than having a n lot of or ball bail actors actors' who needed nedd guardians as we used to I guess Connie Connio ConniC Is worried over o his club He Hc has been spoiled In the thelast thelast last few years by having such suciL speed lashes flashes as Collins and ho expects too much Then he hc Is going to miss Frank Frnk Baker with his bl big bat hat badly Conni Con nl ni Is 19 bound to and I know it I worries him But nut at that I would like Ito to tola tolay tolay la lay a bet that lie ho comes coms back hack to Philadelphia with wih a vcr very fair fir ball baJ club Mack Inck Is that way It I is a habit of or his He lie lo I Is ones one of or thOM bean rare managers who seem to lo ho lie able able to manufacture a ball bal club out Olt of a n couple of or old gloY gloves two or three bats and a park The Tho ho 10 loss heMs M of Collins CoHns anc and Baker Biker has been hn a ahard ahard ahard hard blow It I would have ha stunned most any other mana manager cr I doubt If ho he hoever hoever ever cyer would havo have let let Eddie Eddlo go AO If I he lie had not felt fel sure ire Baker would be he In there thero Frank Frnk has hlA threatened to quit each ench fall Cal for Cor or several seasons and anti nobody nobody no no no- bod body took tool him very ery cry seriously It I was generally thought tho the winter layoff and L d coming of or spring would euro cure him him of or this desire as In the tho past Slut But lul It I looks at this writing as aM if Frank Franl Intended to stick to his decision It I is tough on Connie but I will wi bet you ou can cn tint find a n lot of or pitchers on seven se en other American league clubs who will not do nn culs wi any complaining If I Baker turns farmer Carmel for or good |