Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-07
BY ]. ED GRILLO.

| his credit and is charged with but five
defeats j record which none Of the star
twirlers of the big leagues have eaualed.
Johnson should have the greatest Year
OF his career by the time the season
closes He is in excellent form now, and
ahout the ONLY chance opposing teams
have of beating him is to shut out MS
team.
Yesterdays victory gives Johnson ten
straight the last time he was defeated
being June %, when the Athletics drove
him from the box. He came right back
in three days and shut out Macks
team and since then has not suffered
defeat
Twice this season has he made run
of ten straight victories. and In ms pres
ent run he has Il tifteen-inning tie game
of which he pitched ten innings Barring
accident johnson should lead all the
pitchers in the country by long margin,
and absolutely establish the claim that
he is the greatest pitcher the same has
J ever developed 1t is not unlikely that
he will beat Boehling's record of eleven
straight wins before another week rolls
around. but to do this he VIII nave TO
win from the Maps. a team which. for
some unaccountable reason. has hit
him harder this season than any OF the
others in the league
1t is likely that Harry Harper. Griffith
young left handler. will be pitted AGAINST
the White Sox today. If Harper warns
m satisfactorily he will be sent to the
rubber and it is sure to be either he or
Joe Engel who pitched the Opening game
of the series. but fell a victim to lot
of bad breaks and had to be relieved by
i Hughes.
Jim Scott the Sox pitching mainstay, is
slated to work for the visitors.
| That the Nationals are badly in need of
more hitting strength in the Outfield has
been apparent all this season. Manager
Griffith undoubtedly realizes that he needs
at least one more good hitter among his
gardeners. and there is no assurance that
any of the several youngsters who will
be given a trial with the team next spring
| will make good. He feels. however. that
| he has natural hitter in Carl Cashion
| and he purposes to find out this fall if
| there are any prospects of developing
! him into outfielder.
In the two game which Cashion has
play ed in right field he has shown to good
| advantage when the fact is taken into
consideration that he has been out of the
game for nearly three months. In both
contests he has hit timely. and he has
played good ball in the field, so that the
| chances favor his developing into a valu-
able man.
Cashion, though one Of the biggest men
in base ball, is by no means slow. He is
fast runner and very active on his
feet and with regular work in the out
field may be a star by next season. There
is no member Of the team vino hits harder
than Cashion. He stands chance of be-
coming a slugger of the first grade If he
Is kept In the game regularly.
Manager Jim Callahan Of the White
SoX has not given UP all hope of Big Ed
Walsh as pitcher. Though Walsh has
n IA fao 10
season, Callahan believes that his arm
will entirely recover after while
walsh was as good as ever for a
| time this spring, but he caught a severe
cold in his arm early in the season and
| the limb has never been the same since,'
| said Cal. But it is not injured, and l
believe that his trouble is rheumatism
! He may recover from this in due time
| and be himself again. | am satisfied that
his pitching days are not over. though
| he may not be of much use to US this
| year
! What difference it makes in a team
| when it gets a few timely hits. In yes
| terday's struggle-the first of the series
with the Sox i'm which the Nationals
have done any hitting to speak of-the
| locals easily Outclassed their opponents
and played by far the best ball they
] have shown for some time There was
never any doubt of the result when John
!, son showed that he was in form Had it
! been necessary for the big fellow to go
| through yesterdays game the Sox would
nave had hard time scoring, for John
| son showed that he was al his best He
was used in only four innings and loafed
/ IN at least two of these, so that he will
1 be ready to work i'm couple of games
| in the Cleveland series.
The Nationals and Maps will iump to
| Cleveland Saturday night. where they
play d game Sunday. returning here to
llnlsh the ser!es Monday and Tuesday.
IT IS more than likely that Joe Roehling
/ will make the trip 10 the Ohio mctropo-
| lis for the Sunday game while Johnson
! viii likely be- worked here i'm the first
\ game OF the ser IS Friday and in the
| final game TUESDAY
Gallia took Johnson's place in the fifth
I ana the Texan never gave n better ex
!, h.bitlon since he joined the team than
ne did yesterday Galia's trouble here
! tofore has been his lack of control Ha
has lot of stuff. but until yesterday
| couiu never use IT as he should, and
consequently his efforts were not sue
| cesstul- lie seems to have rounded into
| form now. however. and may vet f1ltiII
| expectations and make a winning pitch
| er. Ia me hve innings that he worked
he allowed but two hits and these c.m.
after the game was cinched. and he
seemed to let up trife. "
Clarence Smith, a youngster whom
Callahan sent to the rubber tn onnoca
Johnson, probably because he did not
/ want to waste any of his regular nitch
| eiS, got away in the first inning hut
was numerically pounded in the sec
| ond- when ne was forced to retire under
iire walk TO Morgan, three clean
singles and Johnson's double ended
Smiths career for the day. and O. Rr;en
formerly of Boston who took his Mace
did not fare much better. the result
being that six runs We're scored in this
, round Lathrop followed O'Bren and
he was fairly effective. but wild as q
March hare. fault which had him in
hot water in most every inning.
collision between Chappelle and
Collins which knocked out both of these
players happened in the second inning
when Milan popped up a little Gy over
Viewers head for which both Of tho
outtielders tried. They came together
while on dead run. and both were ven
dered unconscious. Yet neither seemed to
he seriously hurt. Chappelles knee
struck Collins In the solar piexus. and
he was out for some few minutes heinz
lahan took both out Of the game hut
they are expected to be in the line-un
again today.
Ainsmiths feat of stealing home in the
ment. o Brien, who was pitching was
taking long wind-up which enabled
Ainsnith to get big lead off of third
base. He started with the swing of the
pitchers arm and easily beat the ball 10
the plate. Evans decision not even