Evening star., 1911-08-31
NATIONALS LOSE HARD TEN
INNING BATTLE TO THE MAPS
'Dixie" Walker Slips Cog in Two Rounds,
Losing the Game-Praise
for Morgan.

, retired in order in the sixth, while
Easterfy broke the monotony OF Things
in the seventh by driving the ball back
at E. Walker with express-lfke speed.
Walker gave the drive combat. but
there was so much force behind it that
the big pitcher lost his balance and
fell. Easterly was sacrificed to sec
ond, where he was left when c. Walker
gathered In the drives OF Butcher and
Olson.
The next two rounds found the Maps
doing the quiet retiring. act. B1andfng
was equal to the occasion of starting
the Maps along victory lane in the
tenth. He drove a single to center.
took second on Butchers sacrifice and
scored on Olson's line single to center.
Local fans are still talking about
Walter Johnson's great pitching feat OF
Tuesday. when he defeated the Maps
two to one and pitched only sixty mine
balls. BY defeating the Maps Johnson
rounded out his eighth consecutive vic
tory since July %. On that date. at
seven hits. which, coupled with four
errors, gave them an easy victory, al
though the Nationals connected for
twelve safeties.
Since then Johnson has defeated five
teams. three of them twice. The Maps.
Browns and White Sox have been the
double victims. while the Tigers and
Yankees have gone down before him
once each in his present string of wins.
Johnson won two games in st. Louis and
just as little byplay went to Bob
Groom's rescue in the Mound city and
saved ten-inning show for. the Ma
tionals.
In these eight games johnson has al
lowed but fifteen runs and fifty-four
hits. He has famed fifty-three bats
men and Issued but thirteen passes. Wal
ter made eleven White Sox batters swing
without result at his speeders. while ten
Yankees also did the windmill act.
Jim McAleer regards Johnson as the
greatest pitcher Of this or any other
age. Jim has seen all the big stars from
Rusie to Joss come and go, and he in
sists that none of them compare with the
Idaho wonder. He says that Walter has
could be wished for. He depends on the
'old dine" stuff. speed, a good curve
and control. He knows how to throw
all the freak balls but never monkeys
with them. When Johnson has his share
of luck. health and support McAleer looks
for him to set a league record.
Johnson, who Is the greatest right-hand-
ed pitcher in the league, has a natural
advantage over Vean Gregg, the leading
southpaw. Johnson's arms are longer
OF good speed. Few short-arm twirlers
are gifted with smoke" Although Gregg
measures six feet tive inches to six feet
and three-quarters OF an inch for john
son, the latter mas a reach OF seventy
two inches, or almost five inches more
than Gregg.
The speed king insists that pitchers win
almost as many games when they are
shy of their regular stuff as they. do
when they are right on edge. He says
that this is especially true when a twirler
goes against a club against whom he was
very effective the last time out. They
look for the twirler to show just as
much or more. and consequently help to
beat themselves.
Trainer Joe Quirk' sought to do the
Washington players favor and recruited
a couple of youngsters to guard the Ma
tionals' bats during the game. The kids
had not been on the job five minutes
when Manager McAleer espied one of the
kids pocketing a new ball. Jim immedi-
ately appointed himself bouncer and
personally elected the youthful purloiner.