Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — Matty Through Years Ago. [ARTICLE]

Matty Through Years Ago.

Christy Mathewson was “through” as a major league pitcher thirteen years ago. If you don’t believe it, read what was printed in Sporting Life in the fall of 1901: “Danny” Green, of the Chicago White Sox, who was out on a barnstorming trip with Christy Mathewson, the Giants’ youngster, declares that he is afraid the” use of a snap in delivering curves may have given the New York twirler a permanent injury. “All he could do was to lob them over,” said Green. To this Clark Griffith added this safe reflection: “If Mathewson loses his ability to pitch it will be an exemplification of the old saying that a pitcher with speed is foolish to use curves.”