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Show MATTY LOOMS I AS FAVORITE I WITH FANDOM I Famous Giant Pitcher Is E;' . One of Most Noticeable Men at World Series. R . By G1CORGE CHADW1CK. R Special Correspondent of The Stand- R a rd-Examiner. B. (Copyright, 1922, by Tho Standard- K Examiner.) P" NEW YORK, Oct. 7. A dud nnver L. brought homo a train of "real cars." I a dog that barked, or a monkey that f climbed a stick, wnlch gav mors Joy E to hlc son than the hall games at the a-. Polo grounds this week have given to 1 the man who pitched and won tht: ft, first honest-to-tjoodncs world serifs - contest in history. Christopher fc Mnthewoon. E Marty Is wearing spectacles. E "They are not a ttgp. of age, he if- said shyly when his olrtes: partner 111 I baseball kidded him just a little about it today. "It was being Indoors so t much that made them necossary." h- Yet it did look odd to saa the blue I eyes of the big fellow shining behind t, the "cheaters " For one of tho ster- ling a3oets of "Matty" was his won- derful eyesight. It was as much rh it asset as his fadeaway. There was 6. once a great deal of talk about his e wonderful control. Pltohers from the IP blackberry patches who were breaking t In, used to ask him Whether he prac- I- tlced all tho tlm? to acqjlre It. t "Not all of the time, b-it enough of f the time to know no-rr my arm Is F working," was always the reply f "Matty" never told them that he f cou'.d almost ace a pin lying by the Jf Ride of home plate, but he could hen fr he was In his vigorous prlpie. And ff those arm muscles which he had i, '. trained were tuned to hit that pin X If neressarv. f "I'll be here until after the series L Is over," he said this afternoon i"hen P . asked as to tho length of his stay. t "That depends on how soon the Olantp t win or the Yankees " s He used the word "Giants" with s little of the 'softness of affection f v.'hlch a man has for his very oldest H friends. The Giants used him well. j fie made his life reputation while a ! member of the team and he knows It SLIGHT LTTY. many in nis career wun me .ew York dub there were critics who b poke slightingly of him. Some If thought he was simply tho product of J. New "i ork boosting. Chicago ospe- daily thought so. The Cubs trimmed . him occasionally and then It was that I Chicago casually referred to Matty as I the great balloon of the National "Remember the last day that yo i If pitched in the world series of 1900 j tni won the game, 1 to 0"" h was r With a quick Intaking of bis breath i he replied: ' Yes, I do. I had done something that J never thought I could and if anyone had said that I CQUld pitch' !f three shutout games against a team like the Athletics I would have railed j the fellow a first-class boob. I was 1 a real big league pitcher." As the. games have gone on each I day and the i, k cr crowds groanfd and I squirmed, and as the plays became more and more Important as the contests con-tests drew to a climax, the ball player who had been away from all of it for lyro oars and more would bgln to shakd nervously with excitement I Out In the box, years ago. the en- L emy could have hud three me i on bases with the slugger of sluggers at bat and Matty would have looked calmly at his catcher ts get the srlg-rial, srlg-rial, shak his head in the negative if he did not like it. and not even a j drop of perspiration would hava trickled down the back of his neck j . p1 the natural outpouring brot'ght ... i by physical exertion. Yet up In the press stand he was MM like the other humans who sigh when something goes wrong, groan when something goes worse, shriek unintelligibly, gibberish when thair side does something good, and tos? away their wearing apparel In mo-ments mo-ments of temporary insanity. J EASILY EXCITED NOW Matty, on every day of the series I has been visibly and unmistakably SZ Cited and when It was all ovor he j would still be shaking. Ho would JM tako hi"! br-'ath with the rapid in- i drawing of the chap who Is not seeing see-ing tho game from the Inside, but as JH a rooter anticipating the best, and I often realizing the worst. Matty hasn't been S player, not even an old player. In this series. He has been a fan He had been solong off tho scenes of the big show that he wa 1 as much excited a-; when In boyhoo i he sat on a fence around some vacant I lot at Factorrville. Pa., and watched the home team fill the bases and per- haps empty them when Old Hickory t hit the ball into the next lot. j Other old players are like that J some of them. There have been ball j players who were attached to teams I and who came "Pack to see their old favorites play, who could not remain i In the stand when the moment bo- came pregnant with great posslblH- I tlea. They sneaked out of their seats and waited behind the sUnds for tho blx roar It they heard It they knew that the now boys had done what the old boy s used to do and they won i then emerge and yell, too. |