I love these two...
1. Matty as an officer playing checkers with "the boys".
- It is said that checkers was "The Christian Gentleman's" only vice. Christy Mathewson was an accomplished checkers player, once having defeated Newell Banks, world champion checkers player from 1917-22 and 1933-34? I AM CURRENTLY IN COOPERSTOWN AND JUST SAW SOME OF CHRISTY'S PERSONALLY OWNED CHECKERS DISPLAYED. PRETTY DARN COOL...
1918 TYPE 1 PHOTO
COOPERSTOWN TODAY:
2. CHRISTY IN FULL UNIFORM BEING SENT HOME WITH CHEMICALLY INDUCED SICKNESS.
-In 1918, Mathewson enlisted in the United States Army for World War I. He served overseas as a Captain in the newly formed Chemical Service along with Ty Cobb. While in France, during a training exercise he was accidentally gassed and consequently developed tuberculosis which ultimately killed him prematurely.
1919 TYPE 1 PHOTO
