Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-29
WALTER JOHNSON PITCHES
NATIONALS INTO SIXTH PLACE
Incidentally McAleer's Star Twirler Estab
fishes New Strike-Out Record-Team
Named to Keep Athletics Busy.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DISPATCH to The Star.
CHICAGO, September 29.-The fight for
sixth place between the White Spx and
the Senators ended rather disastrously
for the Sox. Walter Johnson was not
to be beaten in the final contest OF the
season with the fasteners, and Du1y' S
men dropped back into seventh place with
a sigh after having great hopes of beat
ing out the Washington men, There is
not much chance for the Sox to overtake
the Senators from now until the end Of
the season unless the locals take an
other brace and start out on another
string of victories such as came to
finish last Sunday.
The loss of Ed Walsh to the team will
handicap the locals, SO that it will be
a hard proposition now to get the coveted
position in the race. Manager McAleer
has been able to bolster up his team, SO
that from now on to the end IT Will
likely be a hard team to beat out OF any
thing. The wonderful feat of making a
new worlds strike-out record was COM
pIeted yesterday by Walter Johnson. This
great pitcher has chance of putting the
record so high this year that it will never
be possible for another pitcher to reach
IT again. Ten of the Sox batterS were
struck out yesterday, which gives john
son a record of 307 already this season,
and he will likely be given chance to
pitch two of the remaining games of the
season anyway. The record that was
made by Rube Waddell when he was
with the Athletics several years ago was
301 and Johnson already has pushed the
record six higher than Waddell had it. 1t
would not be out of the way to predict
that Johnson's record this year will be
325, for he is pitching grand ball right
now and can easily strike out eighteen
more men during the rest Of the season.
The Nationals gave Doc White one Of
the worst beatings Of the year yester-
day. After holding the visitors for five
rounds White rather lost control and al
lowed eleven hits to be made in the last
four inning. 1t was too much OF q
feat to beat johnson at the pace he was
going unless the luck broke against him,
hits were made off the star finger of
the Nationals, while fourteen were made
or White.
Manager Jimmy McAleer Of the Wash
ington Senators has completed his ar
rangements for the team that is to
give the new American League cham
pions their practice during the week
that the Athletics are to be idle waiting
for the Cubs to finish the season in their
league. The Senator leader announced
before he left here last night that all of
the men that he had picked for the
practice team had consented to play.
and that the Philadelphia men would be
given as good a chance to get into con-
1ition to meet the Cubs as II they were
practicing with the Cubs themselves.
Twelve men are to make up the prac-
ice team, and McAleer says that 1.-The
could have these same twelve men to
play for him during the season the
league championship would be settled
long before the Fourth Of July
IT really think that the Athletics will
want my team to play the worlds
championship for them when We get
through with them." said McAleer. IF
I could have such a team during reg
1,ar season I would be able to sit back
md take q lot Of comfort in base ball,
md YOU will agree with me when you
near who I have for that team. Harry
Lord is to play third, Mcbride will take
care Of short. Elberfeld will cover second