Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1918 — REMINDS YOUNG OF OLD DAYS [ARTICLE]

REMINDS YOUNG OF OLD DAYS

Only . Pitcher Who Ever Won 500 Qftmes Comments on Playing of . 7 Wood and Ruth. “It reminds me of the old when we pitchers nsed tpThave to play the outfield when not wording in the box,’* remarked Cy Young, tj»e only jdtcber ever won 500 games, as he sat In the press box ht Cleveland and/Watched Joe Wood playing left field for Cleveland and Babe Ruth, the same garden for Boston. The news that Nick Altrock was pitching for Washington was broken to him and caused him to declare that if his arm were a little stronger he would come back and try to pitch again himself. “A lot- of new faces down there,” he mused. “Not many in the ’game that were in the American league when I quit. I guess Joe Wood and Speaker are about the only ones in the game X used to know, those two and Terry Turner, Jack Graney and Heine Wagner.” ”