Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-10
BY J. ED GRILLO.
Ial Dispatch To The Star.


Special Dispatch to The Star
CHICAGO. June 1o.-In Detroit Walter
johnson is looked upon as an invlnclbie
pitching proposition. and his performances
against the Tigers yesterday did not al
feet the high esteem in which the lshS
of the Wolverine metropolis hold him.
The very fact that it was announced
that Johnson would pitch brought the
largest crowd of the series to the park
and strange to say the Nationals great
pitcher was cheered every time he came
to the bat.
One would naturally suppose that when
a pitcher has been as much OF STUN
bling block to the progress of the team as
johnson has to the Tigers the do-
nirers of the latter would feel anSthihs
but kindly toward such an individual
but just the opposite is the case so man!
kind things have been SAID or Johnson
by members of the Detroit team, when
have ben printed in the Detroit papers
that the public looks upon Johnson as the
one great pitching star OF the league.
1t is not stretching the facts In the least
II say that johnson was gwen an oNd-
ton when he stepped on the pitcher s
rubber in the first inning, and when he
famed Mcintyre one would nave sup
posed that he had accomplished some
thing which benefited the home team.
This state of affairs is also having an
effect on the Tigers. Just soon as they
saw Johnson raise his arm the Tigers ala
not look like the same team when had
faced the Nationals in the other games.
So often have they fallen victims to MS
pitching that they have come TO the con-
cllsion that he is nearly unbeatable ana
once the Nationals got lead the Ilsers
went about their work as If they felt that
il was their duty to play out the game,
but that they had no chance for VIC
tory.
johnson again performed brilliantly.
That the Tigers scored was nothing but
hard luck on his part. That lone tally IN
the fifth was really a gift from Dame
Fortune. Schmidt. the first man up, Tell
a victim TO one of Johnsons slow balls,
yet he managed to connect with the ball
enough to roll il down the third base
line one of those swinging bunts, and
beat il out. Donovan, who followed. at
tempted to hunt the first ball, but failed.
Johnson taking for granted that Dono-
van would bUnt, did not put much on the
next one. but Donovan switched the
program and hit TO center for a base
Milan threw perfectly to third TO get
Schmidt and had him. but after O'Lough-
lin had called Schmidt out the ball got
away from Conroy and Schmidt and
Donovan. who had in the meantime run TO
second. now occupied third and second re-
spectively. with none out. But that sort
of a situation is not necessarily danger
Gus when Johnson is pitching and it did
not prove so on this occasion for but one
run resulted from the splendid start the
Tigers had.
What is recorded as the longest hit
ever made on the local grounds is credit
ed 10 Walter Johnson. His drive in the
ninth was most terrific clout far over
Cobb's head. The ball was hit very high.
and when it first went up it looked as if
il might be an easy chance for Tyrus.
But after reaching the maximum of it's
height it suddenly began TO shoot, and
carried far over Cobb's head, rolling to
the center field fence. the deepest point
en- the Detroit grounds, being nearly
twice as deep as the center field fence on
the Washington field. That same hit in
Washington would have gone over the
fence. Street, who had singled jus, be-
fore Johnson got his drive, scored before
him, and Johnson really only had to jog
around the bases for il seemed fully
three minutes before Cobb could get the
ball and retrieve.
Unlike most pitchers. Johnson cannot
be considered easy game at the bat. He
always has his healthy swings, and when
he connects something is sure to hap
pen.
Jennings pitched wild Bill Donovan
yesterday because he did not want IN
waste a pitcher against Johnson. Dono-
van is far from being ready to pitch, but
Jennings argued that the chances to beat
Johnson were very slim and that it would
he mistake to pitch Mulln, whose turn
him ready for the New York series. Jen-
nings wants to take fall out of the
Hig:sanders, for he figures that If he can
accomplish this he will regain the lead
Donovans pitching was pitiable. He only
jerked the ball to the plate and nothing
but his rare judgment prevented his an
Inhalation.
II was George McBride's long hit into
the left field bleachers in the fifth inning
which put the Nationals easy street.
With Unglaub on first a result of his
hit, Mcbride got Donovan down to three
and TWO, then took a long swing. and a
line drive into the bleachers resulted I'd
TO that time the score stood - to in ia
yor OF the Nationals. a margin much 100
snort To be comfortable against a team
like the Tigers, which has been very for
tEnate in getting runs without doing
much hitting in the series against the
Nationals.
President Ban Johnson wired Manager
McAleer at Detroit Yesterday that pend
ing an investigation of his affair with