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Show GREAT PITCHERS OF PAST FORTY YEARS Lonp: List Is Rlue-Penciled Down to Cy Young. A writer In a liuiga.lne devoted to baseball has made a careful estimate of the comparative merits of the boid-known boid-known pitchers of the last forty years, and after measuring their records and their prowess, and subjecting their efll-rlency efll-rlency to many tests, bus blue penciled the long list down to one shining name the name of Denton Tecumseh Young, our own Cy Young, who Is pronounced by this autliorlty the greatest pitcher that ever lived, says the Cleveland l'lalu Dealer. It would have hivn Interesting If this Investigator bad carried his comparisons com-parisons back to the pitchers In tlie still earlier days. There were giants, then, too, although possibly not In the Cy Young cluss. There were pitchers who pitched all through the Meason, game ufter game. There were pitchers pitch-ers who bad peculiar types of oM-clency oM-clency that were quite as strongly developed de-veloped as those of the modern hurl-ers. hurl-ers. Here are the names of a few of the early duy pitchers, all players of note : Asa ltralnard of the original "l!ed Stockings," who went through an entire en-tire season without losing a game. tleorge Zettleln, called "The tluirtn-er." tluirtn-er." who had a remarkable command over the sphere. Alphonso Martin, 'Thonny Martin," who was famous for his slow bull, Ids drops and his twisters. Amos rummlngs, who Is believed to be the llrijt professional pitcher w ln used a curve ball. Illner Woltcrs, "the long Jersey-man." Jersey-man." who pitched for tbe Cleveland "Forest Cltys" In 1ST2. A. O. Pratt. "Al Pratt," another Clevelund pitcher, who In 1ST1 was regarded re-garded as huvlng the swiftest delivery In the profession. Charlie Pabor, the tlrst noted left-handed left-handed pitcher, who helped to establish estab-lish the fume of the noted I'ulons of Morrlsanla. Then there were Spalding of the Bostons, and Mc' rlde of the Athletics, steady and bral-iy pitchers who left admirable recon'-. There were oth rs In the early days whose pitching ei'lelency was widely recognized, but those named above were at uno time the best known. |