The Washington times., 1910-09-30

mere nal no pms AA---A W e--aH-
ington viii take two out CT the four
+ games in New York.
Ever since Walter Johnson broke RUDE
Waddeu's record for strike-outs on
Wednesday and boosted the figures from
3m to SE, with the prospect of making
It so or more before the end Of the
season. fans have been inguiring how
the two performances compared
The main question was how many
games old each man pitch in setting
his marx George I 1fOreland. the
baseball statistician OF PittsbUg. comes
to bat with the following authoritative
figures:
3 Johnson has pitched forty fun games
this year and taken part in four others
Strike-outs- 5J5- He has won seventeen
and lost thirteen.
Waddell, in 1893, pitched thirty-eight
full games and took part in eleven
others. Strike-outs, sol
johnson has thus pitched two more
fun games than Waddell, but has taken
part in seven less incomplete contests.
one Of the Iour parts Of games charged
against Johnson was that N St Louis,
where he did not last out the first in
Ming because of wildness. WaddeU is
g sOUthpaw, and, while he had marvel
Gus control, he suffered from the almost
Inevitable tendency Of sOuthpaws 20 be
come wild at times, and his taking part
In eleven partial games was probably
due 10 that fact
No answer yet about the worlds ser
les
Washington fans are Fostering the
q
worlds series They want to know
about sending their money for tickets,
and all sorts Of details As a matter OF
fact, the newspapers here or In Phila-
delphia know nothing at all as IS evi-
denCed by the story from Philadelphia
published in another column The fans
IN the Quaker City are even more het
up about the series than those IN Wash
inston- They have their money all
ready but cant spend u vet As the
dates for the series have not been set.
a prospective spectator can't tell what
day he wants his tickets for Il IS
likely that the pasteboards VIII be sold
by mail only, and that there viii be
difficulty IN getting more than very
rev IN the same name The National
Commission has charge Of the sales, and
is using every means in its power 10
choke lff the spectators It succeeded
Pitrs5Irg last year and conditions were
not a. bad i'm Detroit as many auCiCi-
pated. About the safest way TO send
the coin would be by money order In
& registered letter. which would give a
sort Of double protection and receipt
That new major league IS a long ways
Baseball players are human, and r
anybody comes aiC 1g with q real bunch
Of money in the way Of ten-thOUSand
dollar bonuses for their services. ne VIII
have no great difficulty in getting the
stars 10 shine for him, but we have not
gents VINO are going 10 build million
dollar plants buy the ground and so
through the other DreliuiuarIes incident
10 starting a baseball league that viii
compete with those now In existence
Maybe Walter johnson has signed
with the outlaw league. but We doubt
IL
Fletcher ana the crowd OF promoters
he represents are getting lot Of -ree
advertising out Of CIe ALLEGED new
1eaCJe- but that Is about all They and
the PLAYERS seem TO have overlooked the
fact that whan the american League
was being organized TT 1899, there was
not enough major league ball Only
eight cities were in the National, and