Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-03-15
SWATTERsP PICK
BEST PITCHERS
JOE JACKSON AND OTHERS
LEAN TO WALTER
JOHNSON

wv VI EIfhi pliiifIa ll Tue AMERICAN
league I'd Walsh Is great and
there are others. although I believe
Walter Johnson is a little the best
In the National League. OF course. ]
cannot speak with as much knowl-
edge. but ! doubt II they could put
a man into the field Who could take
JOhnson's measure.
Clark Griffith Walter Johnson Is
the greatest pitcher | have ever zee
You may say that ! think so because
! am managing Washington Just
nov but that isn't the reason by a
good deal. said Johnson was the
greatest pitcher In the game last
year when was with Cincinnati and
before / had any idea Of ever join
Ing the Washington or any club in
The American League.
iIcscher Likes O'Toole
Robert Bescher-Marty O'Toole Is
my particular hoOdOo. lie strikes me
out easier than any pitcher ever
faced. won't say he is the greatest
pitcher in the National League. al
least not set. for he Is still young,
but be- undoubtedly the hardest one
FOR mo 20 face. As for the American
League. OF course. I don't know so
much about its players. but what |
have heard from a good many sour
oos leads me- 10 believe that Walter
Johnson is about the best In the
business
Jake Daubert-Thc hardest pitch
o. Iu the world for me TO face f.
Rubc Vanguard. az least that has
been my experience this year. |
think that the pace Vanguard Is
travelling now is about the best IN
'he league. As Tor the American
League. have never faced Walter
Johnson. though I have heard a great
deal about him. and the majority OF
opinions I hear expressed seem to
agre, that he is about the best In
the business.
Hal Chase consider Walter
Johnson the greatest pitcher in the
American League. thing he is all
10 that organization that M%athewson
used 20 be- 20 the National Yes.
Johnson is the true Mathewson OF
the American League and since Mat
ty has begun 10 decline will 20 a
step farther and say that Johnson Is
tho greatest pitcher in either leauge,
for % is conceded that Matty isn't
what Dee used 20 be-.
Evcrs Picks Johnson
Johnny Esers have never seen
Walter Johnson. but from talks with
American League players he must be
q wonder. and Il ! had seen him !
would. no doubt, pick him. As for
the ones have seen IN our lcauge.
there are five that is hard 10 choose
from ou their present form. and they
90, NarQuard, Rucker. O'Toole. Law
cu1,r and Suggs. But II you are
asking me my opinion OF the great
os' pitcher or pitchers ! know OF,
and they are not out OF II by any
means az present. ! would say Math-
eus0u first and Brown second and,
could anyone honestly pass up those
two brilliant perfsrmers after such
wonderful careers as they have had
Mathovson. In my opinion, is tho
greatest pitcher the game eve knew,
and Brown was his equal or Just
close behind
Joe Jackson Walter Johnson is
the greatest pitcher IN the whole
world Last year ! used 10 swear by
Ed Walsh. sometime ar him. but this
wear u is an Johnson. lie has the
greatest slced OF any mat ! yer saw
and o.. ay 400 odds tho hardest pitch
or bon th, world tor me TO face. Tie
has ..yrythjug a pitcher could want.
and uheu ue s going Fun speed ari
starr burning them over the plate
Il batter might as well strike ont and
be done vI'h 10. The n best mt ~
the American League is Walter John
son. and don't believe he has an
equal .l the National
cobb SAYS It, Walsh
Is cobb I'd Walsh always had
90 Doe my particular trouble whenever
wanted FOO fatteu my batting aver
agc. Walter Johnson is another ter
rot In th, box. but vi Walsh. ! DO
lieye. when he Is going right. has my
goat q trIGp moro than any twirler
know of
George Noriarity-l believe Wal
tor Johnson Is the greatest pitcher
iu the American League Re has
always been a wonderful box man
and this year he seems 20 be- going
stronger than ever. be Is a terrible
man 10 face when he is using his full
speed There is certainly 40 pitch
or .l the game who b. bis equal in
that respect Joe wood is very fast
brt he is rather light and although
DIS ball come, speedily. % has not
the force oahind It that Johnson puts
INTO his speed when Johnson shoots
'hc bali aCros the plato 10 fairly
uhis'les through the air and strikes
heavily With the strength he puts be-
hind H. think be- U.s. the greatest
pitcher in the game