Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1916 — PARTICIPANTS IN MATTY DAY CELEBRATION [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PARTICIPANTS IN MATTY DAY CELEBRATION

Here’s one of the mosfc expensive combinations in baseball: Manager McGraw of the New York Giants, ex-Manager Herzog of the Reds, and now a Giant for the second time, and Manager Alathewson, late of the Giants, now manager of the Red.s. Matty received a wonderful ovation at the Polo grounds on his first appearance there as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, an ovation he will never forget. A strange sight to the eyes of the New York fans was the great pitching star In the regalia of the Cincinnati club, and they so far forgot themselves as to‘root for a Cincinnati victory. They did not root in vain for the Giants, too, seemed imbued to start Alatty right and they played with that end in view, apparently, for the desire to win was not at all manifest except on the part of the Reds. Herzog returned to the Polo grounds, another cause for jubilation, but “Buck” had a bad day. He did not make a run or hit and contributed a costly error. All of Christy Mathewson’s friends hope he will succeed as manager of the Reds.

STAR COMBINATION IN BASEBALL.