Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1911 — SYMPATHY WASTED ON PREMIER PITCHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SYMPATHY WASTED ON PREMIER PITCHER

If ttie scribes and fans only knew how llitle “Big Six” cared or thought of this "all-in" stuff, they would save their sympathy for Mathewson. On the way to a recent game a bug recognized Matty, and his attitude and expression seemed to convey sympathy fbr the great hurler, who, he thought, was on the backward trail. Theibug pulled a hunch of clippings from his pocket and handed them to

Mathewson without comment. The papers contained a lot of “good-bye” literature, headed: “Matty’s career closing; he was a good old rtagon, but. he’s all in now.” Matty read the stuff carefully and then asked: “Where did you find this?" "In the New York Oamptararum.” “Yes?” replied Matty. “Of what year?”

Christy Mathewson.