Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 9 | Likeness of Rookie to Old Cy Young Causes Speculation in Indian Camp

Likeness of Rookie to Old Cy Young Causes Speculation in Indian Camp i By NORMAN E. BROWN What's this? What's this? Blamed if one of the two birds above doesn't look like Old Cy Young himself. ! And the other is a dead ringer for him. You're right. Even the vounger, fans who can't recall having seen the great Cy Young in action would know the picture of him, at the left. And the boy at the right does look like the spit of old Cy. More than that his name is Cy-.- And Cleveland- fans wonder If he'll Tollow in the footsteps of the old-time old-time star. The youth is George Cykowski, picked up from the sandlots of Cleveland Cleve-land by Indian scouts and now being given a try out with Tris Speaker's creu. He won 45 games and lost but four while .pitching high school and amateur ball three seasons. Ever since he started pitching, fans have dubbed him "Cy" and let It go a,t that. So Cy he is He's a husky lad, weighs lSu pounds and stands five feet ten inches tall. He has a lot of stuff and in addition addi-tion is a heavy hitter. About the first thing that Impressed the Cleveland squad when he started to unlimber at New Orleans was tho way he started his windnp. "Why, that bird's a dead ringer for Cy Young," said Speaker. And then, "Oh, boy, if he'd only prove to be another an-other .Cy.'. hj.-m-'. It's almost too much to hope but old time fans can remember that it was just thirty years ago that another young fellow joined the old Cleveland National league team without much advance ad-vance notice and wrote baseball history his-tory that never has been equalled. And all the wise birds say "History always repeats Itself." Maybe this is one of the times. Recall some of the high spots in the history Denton Tecuseh wrote? For one thing ne served in the major leagues longer than any other big league pitcher. Beginning with the Cleveland Nationals in 1S90 he stuck in the big' show for twenty-two campaigns, cam-paigns, hurling also for St. Louis Nationals Na-tionals and Americans, Boston Americans, Ameri-cans, Cleveland Americans and Boston Nationals. Among his achievements were four no-hit games. One of these was against the Atl'iletics on May 4, 1904. He did not allow a man to reach first. That same season he hurled 45 straight innings in-nings without being scored upon. The next season, on July 4, he pitched and lost a 20-inning game against the Mack-men. Mack-men. He won a total of 508 games and finished with a grand average of .620. He helped win tbroe league-pennants and was on one world's championship team.