Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-24
STAR FLINGERS IN
 BOTH LEAGUES Monty" Reviews the Re markable Pitching Stunts
 of Present Season
JOHNSON IS THE STAR
Washington Hurlcr Holds the Record Thus Far But Marquard's 19 of
 1912 Remains At Top. R. /
LEY MOyTY
CIV York, August 2o.rTl


 6ome of the most interesting angles Of gossip that ever cropped up in the trail of the national game. With the .sN nineteen straight record of Rubt.
 Marquard, set last year, as mark to s shoot at, all the star fingers of both big league circuits have been blazing ss< away lh their effort to forge up into sbeal notch of glory. One after an- M thethey have run the string up to Il oil where they begin to look dan rers, only to have the cord snap K ,eSnd the other brilliant perform
 an. set at naught so far as the red is concerned. One little defeat arhey fall back clear to the bot 'an towhere they have to begin their '"' n all over again. through the
 " stages of one two three. six, e straight. etc.
 oN = the very start of the season sev> only 1,a,.s ,a. c.' she Cleveland Naps-was the first Lag dJIdSt uOtACC HI lAIo ICoPCSl' bIC 1 K ten in row. Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Phillies duplicated \. the feat and his mate, Seaton, put nine together. Eddie Plank, the great old his way into ten also, and so did Wal ter Johnson of the Senators. Lefty Rebel Russell, of the White Sox ( clustered eight. Then everybody be- gan to look Washingtons way when the boy. Joe Boehling, accumulated a starter, and the youth kept on until he set the years record up to that time of eleven. A few days later-all within four days-Christy Mathewson and Rube Marquard. the pacemaker, both had strings of nine severed ard Al Demaree, another Giant, had his :: cut to eight.
 Now we have Walter Johnson with us again. Not only did he take ten in a row in the early weeks, but after few vicissitudes he launched another N string. His eleventh straight was one N6f the most impressive of his bunch for he beat Cleveland, one of the hard est nuts in the American League to crack In his twelfth, in which he set new years record, he had the Detroit Tigers in hand all the way.
 The achievement of Johnson is un- patalleled in baseball annals. Many pitchers have gone along for a goodly nuA Aber of games without being beat en, aad several besides Marquard nav. ' sss surpas3ed the twelve straight mark, but not one of them has been able to q bui4 up two such strings in a single . season. The mental strain of nursing along sequence of victories, of which so much has been said, is ter rifle with pitchers of certain sorts of temperament Take Marquard for in- stance, in the case of his great dash of 1912. The Rube began to worry after he had taken dozen games and won- dered whether he ever would reach the record made by keefe in the Olden iAa days. The worry caused him to lose weight and, when the Cubs finally checked him in nis twentieth start he was only shadow of the Rube that began the season. He kept on in ms m0roseness and thought If l only had won that twentieth game; would haze possessed the record all alone" Also the enthusiasm was gone out of him. He had had his heart set on making mark that would stand for years, and here he was down at the V bottom forced to start all over again. He lost the next six games he pitched and after that only broke even on the remainder of his games to the end of the season. He didn't pitch another really good game until the worlds series.
 After Plank won his ten straight { this year he lost his next three. At the end of the strings of Seaton and N Alexander of the Philiies both ol ', them dropped several in a bunch. at the time when the Quakers fell down tout of the leadership of the league and the Giants took their place. Falken- berg. after his ten, lost four straight and has been only fair performer since. Boehling lost four in sequence after q long run.
 But .Johnson--what does Johnson do: The great Walter. after being halted after his first ten, suffers only