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OLD CY YOUNG IS ONLY MAN IN DIAMOND
. [''STORY TO WIN 500 BASEBALL CONTESTS
In all baseball history only one man
ever won more than five hundred
games. And that stsir of stars was Cy
Young, who garnered a total of 508
victories in 1887 games during his 22
years as a big leaguer. His yearly
average was 23 victories against 15
defeats for a percentage of .606. Dur
ing all the years of Young's career—
his novice days, his prime and his wan
ing power—he struck out an average
of three men per game and yielded
only about iy2 passes.
, Mathewsords Record.
Christy Mathewson alone challenged
the supremacy of Young—but the
mighty “Big Six” fell far short of the
record of the veteran of bygone days.
Mathewson lasted only 17 years as a
twirler, during which time he scored
372 victories. Hl.s yearly winning av
erage was 22 victories against. 11 de
feats for a mark of .664. In all those
17 years Mathewson issued only 717
bases on balls in 625 games—a show
ing that eclipses anything ever exhib
ited.
Looking hack over the records for
the three best consecutive seasons
shows that .Toe Wood Is the percent? ge
leader and that Walter Johnson and
Cy Young are tied in the matter of to
tal triumphs during such a period.
Wood during 1912. 1913 and 1914
won 54 out of (57 games for the re
markable average of .806. His yearly
showing was 18 victories against 4 de
feats. Second place in the percentage
ranking belongs to Chief Bender, who,
from 1909 to 1911, inclusive, won 59
out of 77 games for a mark of .766.
The three best years that Cy Young
ever knew were 1891, 1892 and 1893.
He won 97 and lost 49 games in that
period. Walter Johnson tied Young in
winning 97 clashes in 1912, 1913 and
1914. But the showing of Johnson
surpasses that of Young because while
Cy was losing 49 games Walter
dropped only 36. Walter’s average for
the three years was .729. Young's was
.664.
Won 90 Games.
In addition to Young and Johnson
only three other pitchers ever won 90
or more games for three straight sea
sons. Those men are Mathewson, Al
exander and Jack Chesbro. the famous
Yankee pitcher of years ago.
Chesbro, by winning 41 games in
1904. set the mark that no one has
been able to fracture since that time.
Ed Walsh made a desperate effort to
beat out Chesbro in 1908. but 40 vic
tories was the best he could do. Chris
ty Mathewson. frith 37 victories in
1908, made the best National league
showing since 1900.
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PRICE OF ATHLETIC
GOODS DUE TO SOAR
Poor Man Is Barred From Privi
lege of Exercising.
Walking Is Only Thing That Won’t
Cost More If It Is Done in Bare
Feet — Increase Hits Every
Sporting Article in Sight.
Exercise is no longer a poor man’s
privilege.
Inquiry among leading sporting
goods dealers showed that prices of
all sporting goods are coming up this
year.
The only thing that won’t cost more
is walking if you do it in your bare
feet. Hiking shoes will cost from $10
to $15, an increase of 20 per cent.
The Increase hits every sporting
article in sight a.id even that which
isn’t. Athletic underwear is on the
upward grade.
“There’ll be twice as many baseball
teams this year as last year,’’ predict
ed an official of a big sporting goods
house.
The only new frills in sports this
year will he in golf. Bloomers for
women and a new set of iron clubs
which allow the golfer to hit the ball
from any angle are being displayed.
There are ten clubs to the set.
Swimming suits will be one-piece af
fairs this year—both for men and wom
en. Men's suits will be the baggy af
fairs of old, but women will have a
creation in colors.
Under the new list of prices, just
•out, baseballs will cost 50 cents more.
League balls will cost $2.50 apiece.
Balls for sand-lot games will cost 50
cents. Baseball gloves will cost as
high as $25. The cheapest will be $1
—a boy’s fielding glove. Baseball
shoes which sold last year for $12
now cost $21 ; chest protectors and
masks have increased.
Golf clubs will cost $6 and upward,
while the minimum charge for golf
balls will be 60 cents.
Footballs, boxing gloves, weight ex
ercisers, punching bags, basketballs
and other sporting paraphernalia ex
perience similar boosts in prices.
The increase is due to higher costs
of labor and material, it was said.
SANDLOTS FURNISH STARS
Mordecai Brown, Former Cub Pitcher,
Says College Boy Is at Big
Disadvantage.
The boy from the sandlote makes
a better ball player than the college
youth, according to Mordecai Brown,
the one-time three-fingered pitching
marvel of the Chicago Cubs.
"If I were to select one of two play
ers of equal ability—one of them a
bov off the sandtots and the other a
college star—1 would fake the sandlot
youth every time.” says Mordecai.
“I do not mean to deprecate the
ability of college players. Some of
the really big men of the game have
been developed by the colleges. But
It has been my observation, both while
in the major league and since leaving
It, that the college player is at a dis
advantage.
“This. 1 believe, Is due to the fact
that many of them have not been up
against the world. They cannot give
and take as the player who has had
his start in semipro baseball."
GOSSIP T1
THMOAG !
J_SPORTS
University of Wisconsin football
team has scheduled annual games with
Chicago at Stagg field for the next
five years.
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This country doesn't want war with
France, but there’s no telling what
will happen if Carpentier fails to lick
the shipyard slugger.
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One hundred and ninety-three nom
inations have been made for the eight
early closing events of the Kalamazoo
grand circuit meeting.
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The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology plans to enter a crew in
the intercollegiate regatta. The sport
was recently taken up in the Boston
college.
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Lou Dillon, the trotting queen, has
foaled a bay colt by Etawah. It is
her tenth and last foal, as C. K. G.
Billings announced that she will not
he mated again.
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The Polo association has added an
army representative to its executive
hoard in order to aid in promoting the
sport in the United States array. Col.
William Lassiter is the first delegate
thus honored.
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The Giants say they have the bat
ting, and given the right kind of pitch
ing. they will romp home a winner of
the National league pennant.
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Jess Haines, making his bow as a
Cardinal before the home fans, estab
lished himself as a twirler who should
be a great help to Rickey’s team.
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George Whitted’s work at the “hot
corner” is proving satisfactory to the
Pirate boss. Dreyfuss says that his
playing is improving with each game.
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Dave Robertson has been showing
his normal speed this spring and
hasn’t been bothered with the weak
leg which slowed him up last sea
son.
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