Asheville, March 16—When the New York Giants and Washington Senators play a benefit exhibition game at the Polo Grounds July 8th to raise funds for a Christy Mathewson memorial, efforts will be made by Si Sanborn, editor of Baseball Magazine, to extend the movement so that a tubercular home for baseball players will be erected as a Mathewson memorial, it was learned here today.
In case this movement receives favorable commendation, Asheville will bid for the institution on the strength of its superlative tubercular curing climate. Presence of Hughie Jennings, former Detroit manager, who is successfully fighting off the disease here, gives Asheville the necessary leverage to work with in this respect.
Many tubercular physicians here express the believe that had Mathewson come here he would have won the fight against the dreaded disease.
When the annual minor league baseball meeting in held here next December, it is expected that the proposed tubercular home for players as a Mathewson memorial will receive serious consideration from the chiefs of organized baseball.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, March 17, 1927
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