C. MATHEWSON
DIES NEW YORK
OF PNEUMONIA
WIFE OF THE IDOL OF THE DIA
MOND WAS AT BEDSIDE
TO THE END.
Son Attending College
Was Enjoying Excellent Health Up
Until a Few Days Ago.
SARANAC LAKE, N. V. Oct.
8. —Christy Mathewson, presi
dent and part owner of the Bos
ton Braves, died at eleven o'clock
last night. Dr. Edward Packard,
in attendance, said that death was
due to tuberculosis and pneumo
nia.
Until several days ago, Mathew
son was in excellent condition.
His wife was at his bed side at the
time the grim reaper called him.
His son, Christy, is an attendant
at college.
Idol of the Field.
Christy Mathewson, idol of the na
tion’s baseball fandom over a span
of more than two decades, and one of
the greatest pitchers the game has
I ever known, was a symbol of the high*
] est type of American sportmanship.
Running the lull gamut of baseball
fame, first as a playing star, later as
a coach and manager, Mathewson left
the game to answer a greater call dur
ing the World War; subsequently
fought and wron a battle for his life,
threatened by after effects of his ser
vice, and then capped the climax of
his diamond career by returning as
part owner and president of the Bos
ton Braves of a major League Club.
Pitcher Extraordinary.
But after all the remarkable achieve
ments of Mathewson’s career are re
counted, the greatest tribute of all
will be paid to his wonderful pitching
skill. For on the mound he was a mas
ter craftsman, the most consummate
and brilliant artist of all time, in the
opinion of many of the games clos
est students.
“Bib Six”—a sobriquet contracted
from “Big Six Footer”—started his
major league career with the New
York Giants in 1900, and it was during
his 17 seasons with that club that he
carved a lasting niche for himself in
the twirling hall of fame. Later he
became manager for two and a half
years of the Cincinnati Reds; served
as a captain in the chemical warfare
arm of the American Expeditionary
Force during the World War; return
ed from the service to rejoin his old
team-mates, the Giants, as a coach;
and retired from the game temporal’
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ily in 1920, when his health was dan
gerously impaired. He came back,
again hale and hearty, in February,
1923, to accept the presidency and
part ownership of the Boston Nation
als.
Graduate Bucknel! College.
A graduate of Bucknell College,
where he was both a football and base
ball star, Mathewson broke into the
professional game with the Taunton,
Mass., club of the New England league
in 1S99, receiving a salary of $80 a
month for his first season. He lost his
first start by a score of 6 to 5 to the
Manchester, N. H., club. During the
season he won but two and lost nine
games, lack of control—a fault he did
not overcome for several years—han
dicapping his effectiveness.
Mathewson, however, was not long
in attracting major league attention.
Playing with Norfolk, in the Virginia
League, in 1900, he won 21 out of 23
games, and was obtained by the Giants
! who turned him back, after a brief
try-out, for more seasoning with the
Southern Club. Later the same year
he was drafted by Cincinnati, but soon
afterward was sent to the Giants in
a deal by which the Reds secured
Amos Rusie.
First Major Appearance.
Matty’s first major league appear
ance was in the role of relief pitcher
in a game lost by the Giants to Brook
lyn. He had but indifferent success
as a pitcher and utility played umil
1902, when John McGraw succeeded
Horace Fogel as manager of the New
York Giants. “Bix Six” Avas playing
first base at the time but McGraw
quickly recognized his pitching abil
ity, and took him in hand. His strides
toward greatness dated from that pe
riod.
Feats of pitching brilliance too nu
merous to catalogue filled Matty’s rec
'ord during the dozen years in which
he ranked consistently among the
most effective twirlers in the major
leagues.
Prominent Pennant Factor.
He was a prominent factor in the
pennant victories of the Giants in
1904, 1905. 1911, 1912 and 1913; he
twirled two no-hit games, one against
the St. Louis Cardinals, in 1901, and
the second against the Chicago Cubs,
in 1905; he held jointly with “Cy”
Young and Grover Cleveland Alexan
der. A major league record of win
ning more than 30 games three sea
sons in a row; but his greatest achieve
ment was in the world’s series of the j
year 1905 when he pitched three shut
out victories against the Philadelphia
Americans.
McGraw ranks Mathewson’s feats in
the 1905 series as the greatest in his
memory. All five games in that se
ries were shut-outs, Joe McGinnity
twirling the fourth victory for the
Giants while “Chief” Bender blanked
the Giants for the only triumph scor
ed by the Mackmen.
Misfortune In Career.
Mathewson had the misfortune to
lose two of the most important games
of his‘career, the play-off contest with
the Chicago Cubs for the pennant in
1908 and the deciding game of the
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world’s series with the Boston Red
Sox in 1912. Breaks of the game
played a big part in both defeats. Mis
judgment of a fly by “Cy” Seymour,
Giant outfielder, was blamed for the
defeat by the Cubs while a costly er
ror by Fred Snodgrass turned the
tide against the Giants and Matty in
the struggle with the Red Sox.
Mordecai—Matty’s Rival.
Mordecai ,'Three-fingered) Brown,
of the Cubs, was Matty’s greatest riv
al on the mound and the two had
many stirring duels. Brown was Mat
ty’s opponent when the latter pitch
ed his no-hit. game against the Cubs
in 1905 but conquered his New York
rival in the famous 1908 play-off game.
It was related that one season when
the Giants and Cubs were battling for
first place, President Taft, an ardent
fan, had his private car attached to
the train bearing the New York team
to Chicago in order to see Mathewson
and Brown oppose each other in the
opening game of a series.
Close Careers Simultaneously.
Oddly enough, both of these great
pitchers, closed their major league ca
reers as players by opposing each otil
er in a game on September 4, 1918.
Mathewson then was manager of Cin
cinnati, and the Reds won, 10 to V
both “old masters” being hit freely.
Matty Goes To Reds.
Mathewson suffered a shoulder in
jury in 1914 which virtually ended hi
career as a regular on the mound. II
pitched infrequently thereafter an.'
persuaded McGraw to let him go to
Cincinnati during the middle of 1916
to fulfill his managerial ambition. In
the deal by which Matty went to the
Reds, the Giants also gave Eddi
Roush and William McKechgie in ex
change for “Buck” Herzog, retiring
Cincinnati leader, and Wade Kiliifer.
The Reds finished, last in 1916 bu*
improved rapidly under Matty’s lead
ership, landing fourth place in 1917
and third place the following year, h.
last with the club.
Responded to Country’s Need.
Mathewson responded to the call t
war at the close of the abbreviated.
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