El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14
WALT JOHNSON
PITCHES 4
STAR CAME
Does Not Allow a Single
Safe Hit in Nine Innings
Against N. Y. Yankees.
ALEXANDER ALSO
HAS ONE TO CREDIT
D ERNEsT ]. LANIGAN.

LONE thing that Is pulling the
~ Washington players land not wor-
rying the person most concerned q
/ bit) is whether Walter Perry John
I son. greatest kalsominer in the coun-
I try. IS or is not a no-hit hero, and
some Of them want Barney" TO get a
ruling on the matter from the AmerI-
can leagues other noted Johnson
Byron Bancroft Of the Fisher building.
Held Them Down.
The fire ball king, when the first
Sunday American league champion
ship game was being played in New
York on Nay IL suppressed the Yam
KEGS vita a pair OF blows, one struck
by Roger Peckinpaugh, second hitter
in the first inning, and the other
struck by Derriu Pratt, first hitter
in the eleventh inning.
In between the raps OF Peck
and Pratt - men hit against Sir
Walter and - were retired, IS Of
them in n row. Frank Baker, who
beat johnson out Of n nO-hit
game on kickoff day in 1910, was
the third batter in the tenth and
He walked, perfshinE a second
later when he essayed to steal.
Johnson certainly pitched hitless
ball in tWo-thirds Of the first inning
and in the next nine chapters, and his
feat Of not permitting any one TO
reach first in nine and third in
ninGs ought TO put him in the J. Lee
Richmond-John Montgomery Ward
Denton J. Young-Adrian c. JOss-Ern-
est Grady Shore class, for really he
did better than any Of the noted pitch
ing prices named. They made first
base No Mans Land for 27 successive
wouldbe hitters, Walter going them
one better.
Grover Cleveland Alexander, eight
years ago, when he was breaking in,
produced a nO-hit effort eight innings
long that was nearly as remarka bic
as Johnson's stunt OF May II. 1913.
Moran Broke Up Game.
The Reds, then managed by Clark
Griffith, played in Philadelphia on
against George Chalmers in the first
eight innings Aleck took command
Of the pitching situation for the Pills
in the ninth and went eight frames
without yielding a hit Then a wise
athlete from Fitchburg, Mass, pro-
duced a single that made it unneces-
sary for either Aleck OF Frank Pader-
eWski Smith, who had the Carl Nays
habit Of leaving q team fiat on its
back, to toll any longer, said hit Civ
ing the Quakers a TO win over the
Old Fox's team
who rose 10 the emergency IN the
sixteenth WIS Pat Moran He
caught Chalmers and Alexander
that day and he cancelled the
three passes Grover Cleveland is
sued by throwing their recipient
out when they tried to steal.
Just q men faced Alexander that
afternoon
In Boston Monday Ray Heating and
Dana Fillingim Of the Braves hurled
eight innings Of hiless ball against
the Cardinals, Heating leboring IN the
eighth and ninth and Fillinghim in
the 10TH 18th, 18TH 18TH 14th and
18th
Singled to Right.
Norman Boeckel. former Pirate,
singled 70 the right in the domestic
pOrLion OF the 10th and SO Filling
GIN, whose birthday happens 20 be
the same as Walter Johnson s, couldn'
go any further on a joint no-hit effort
that was as good as AlexanderS IL
1911
Dana pitched a hitless fray or two
down south when he was in the En-
pire State league and the first game
he pitched for COrdeles Ca, one year
he famed Is men, gave just one blow
and was beaten. on a boot, to 0.
Here Is Johnson's Record.
This shows how Johnson performed
when he was Tor wasn't) becoming q
no-hit hero;
johnson Against Yankees-May IL.
First inning-Halas flied to Ne
hockey Peck singled TO center Pip
famed Peck stole second. Baker flied
to Rice. One hit, one left
Second inning-Foster threw out
Pratt Johnson tire won't Lewis. BO-
die famed. No hits. none left.
Third inning-Johnson threw on