Clipping:A late sighting of Projector Jackson
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| Date | Saturday, October 30, 1886 |
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| Text | Projector Jackson, as usual, has caught on big. He is now the press agent for the American Institute. If he was to fall into the river he would come up with a gold watch in his hand. National Police Gazette October 30, 1886 Commentary on Bobby Mathews age A cold, cruel wind crept up the Allegheny River yesterday afternoon, and, turning up the side streets, swept athwart the ball grounds. A weak, inform old man, with the stub ends of a silvery beard sticking out of his chin, and flowing white hair curling out from his tiny blue cap, hobbled over to a seat on the players' benches. Age sat with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily became his silver locks; He wore the marks of many years well spent. Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience. When the venerable patriarch shed his ulster and dropped his great horn-rimmed spectacles the crowd discovered that it was Bobby Matthews—a man who played ball when the Pyramids were building and when the great crumbling Sphinx, with its unutterable mysticism and majestic secrecy towered above the sand, a riddle easily read, a ball player who saw the first course of stone laid for the construction of Niagara Falls, and before whom passed the vision of the world in its geological stages in imagery as gorgeous as the splendor of a tropic morn. The aged player laid down his toga—there was a harmonious conjunction and passage between the cold, cruel wind and the aforesaid stub ends—and he then walked out to the pitcher's box, and proceeded to mow down the Allegheny nurselings, for as a bath of corrosive sublimate is to the bed-bug so is Bobby Matthews to the home team. The Athletics won the game by a score of 6 to 3. Brown, Mann and Barkley were the only players that could hit the “little old man.” National Police Gazette October 30, 1886, quoting the Pittsburgh Dispatch |
| Source | National Police Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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