Word: mathewson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game is being held for the benefit of the Christopher Mathewson Memorial Fund A memorial tablet will be unveiled to the memory of the famous twirler, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis will make a brief address...
Died. Mrs. Gilbert B. Mathewson, 70, mother of the late Christopher Mathewson, famed baseball pitcher. She was president of the local W. C. T. U. in the village of Factoryville, Pa.; at Factoryville...
Checks have been pouring in and reservations are rapidly being made on homesites along stately "Mathewson Drive," named after my old friend "Christy" Mathewson...
...than any failure in himself, he began to slip. In 1908 he pitched and lost the celebrated 12-inning play-off game against the Cubs which decided the National League pennant. Mordecai Brown-the pitcher with the pirate's name-worsted him in that struggle, "the hardest game," Mathewson said, "of my life." In 1914 he injured his right shoulder. Still, with speed impaired, he could win games with his curves, his strategy, his matchless fadeaway. For a while, he tried without much success, to manage Cincinnati. When the U. S. entered the War, he enlisted...
...whom self-control, correct habits and personal integrity were conspicuous, though he was engaged in a calling where they are often painfully lacking. . . ." Memorial resolutions were drawn up by the American Legion at its convention, by the Magistrates of Baseball, by President Emory Hunt of Bucknell (where Christy Mathewson Jr. is a junior), by the Giants, the Reds, the Boston Braves...