Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1913 — CHESBRO STILL HOLDS MARK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHESBRO STILL HOLDS MARK

Record of Total Games Won During Entire Season Yet Unsurpassed by Star Slabman. Messrs. Marquard, Johnson find Wood achieved more than passing fame last summer by compiling record consecutive victories. Marquard tied Keefe’s record of 19 straight and set a modern mark Unparalleled. Johnson and Wood cracked the A. L. pitching mark by two games, with*, 16 unbroken victories established. That is all well enough and worthy of the extended salary offered. But in the matter of modem records Jack Chesbro still holds the

mark worth shooting at—the mark much above any matter of consecutive wins. Cheshro, In 1904, won 43 games, Ed Walsh came closest to this compilation in 1908 with 40 victories. Wood labt season wjls nine victories below Chesbro’s figures. Johnson waß 11 below and Marquard, despite the feat of winning the first 19 games he pitched, was 17 games back of the Chesbronian total. If the Rube had won every battle in which he worked the best he could have done would have been to tie the 43 victories. Straight win records frame ornamental pieces of pitching bric-a-brac. But the standard is to be figured upon the year’s total. Marquard drew the headline and the action photos for his 1912 performance, but Chesbro in 1904 was 17 victories more valuable to Griffith than the Rube eight years later was to McGraw.

Jack Chesbro.