Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-01
lnquisitive Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
Please answer in The Sunday Star
pink sheet the following questions:
/. lid walter Johnson pitch three days
in succession. and did he win each day?
.. If so. what year did he pitch them?
l.. HELLER and T. MORRIS.
Walter Johnson pitched three success
sive days in New York, shutting out his
opponents in every occasion. This was
in September 1903.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please note the attached from last
Was not this game played Friday, April
%? Please answer in next Sundays
pink sheet and oblige. A FAN.
The game was played April %.
Sporting Editor Star:
Please state in your column Walter
Johnsons record for consecutive wins
made in 1872, and which he holds jointly
with Joe Wood. r. J.. Nj.
Johnson and Wood both won sixteen
consecutive games.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly inform me the whereabouts of
Clarence Walker. former National base
ball player. and whether or not he was
traded outright. NJ. E. ID. s
Walker was traded to Kansas City of
the American Association in part pay
ment for Gallia. He is now member
OF that team.
Sporting Editor Star:
Kindly inform me through your pink
sheet where II was that Walter John
sons winning streak was broken last
wear. In what city, "A FAN.
Here in Washington. when he finished
a game in which Hughes had started.
Sporting Editor Star:
To settle bet. will YOU kindly
publish i'll next Sundays Star pink
sheet whether the man playing
OH the Nationals spells his name,
Gideon "Gedeon." | bet it was
| "Gedeon." Who wins2
| Sporting Editor Star:
| kindly publish the following in the
| Sunday pink sheet A on second base
! Il on third base. Batter hits bali to the
third baseman. A. thinking e will at
| tempt 10 score. runs and touches third.
| Is forced at the plate or can both
runners. if not touched. go back to the
| base they we're when the ball was
hit? Thanking you for the same.
{. b. s.
| One base runner can never force an
| other. Only the batter can do that and
| in the instance YOU cite both runners
had the right to return to the bases they
| originally occupied.
! Sporting Editor Star:
| Kindly print in the pink sheet the an
| swer to the following question: Car
/ Griffith ~send the Cubans back to the
! minors without the consent of the other
! clubs. and still hold a string on them
| Thanking you IN advance S. VI.
/ No.
| Sport;n. Editor Star:
/ Will thank you to advise through your
columns as to the following: suppose a
| hot liner is hit to the infield and the
| shortstop or second baseman gets his
| hands ON it. but the liner is too hot to
! handle and he drops it's it counted an
1 error or hit? W. l.. b.
Whenever bali is hit so hard that the
fielder cannot handle il it must be
] scored a hit.
/ Sporting Editor Star:
Please answer in Your columns OF
next Sunday. where Washington opened
! up the season of 1912. who pitched and
did he win? FAN.
! Johnson was beaten, to .. in Phila-
| delphia.
/ Sporting Editor Star:
Will you kindly let me know through
| your pink sporting S.Ieet how many times
| last year Walter Johnson was knocked
| out of the box and by what team? Also
! how MANY times was Joe Wood of Bos-
| ton knocked out and by what teams?
i Thank you very kindly.
! f. L. BROWN.
! The records show that Johnson and
/ Wood were each taken out three times
| last season. II does not state against
which teams this happened.
/ r.. i. Phelps.-lt was presumed that
your inquiry referred to major league
pennant, Washington never having one.
Sporting Editor Star:
] kindly decide the following argument:
A claims that the day Becker pitched