Evening star., 1925-10-08

Supremely Confident.
Harris and his hardy henchmen are
making no boasts or eNtraVa gent
predictions. but following their i-to-l
victory over the Buccaneers in the
initial combat yesterday they are su-
premely confident of their ability to
take the measure of the National
Lea que pennant winners. and would
feel no superintendent thereby ac-
Complished We're they 10 attain their
objective without the loss "f Il single
contest.
Whether they are represented in the
pitchers box by Stanslaus tovaieskie.
a seemed most proba BILE or Alex Fer
guson, and whether they are called on
to face Vic Aldridge. the logical Fl.
rate finger. or some other member of
the CorSairs- extensive curvinG corps.
did not enter into their calcula lions.
They simply are convinced that hay
ing disposed Of Lee Meadows, the
Bucs' one hest hall-throWin- het, due
largely to the maSterful exhibition by
Walter Perry Johnson. monarch uI AL
moundSmen. they can beat any com
hinatlon OF athletes placed in the lieiu
against them.
Johnson Covered With Glory.
johnson simply covered himself
with glory in getting his teammates
off 10 d running start in the second
world series it has been his lot to
enter in the l9 seasons he has spent
In A Washington uniform. Last Fan.
making his initial appearance in the
greatest of all diamond events. Ear
ney was overly impressed with the
Importance of the occasion and lost a
tough 12-inninc game to The Giants.
The great burden of responsibility
that rest ed on his broad shoulders had
been so stressed that he tried too hard
and lacked his customary effective
ness. due To working in an unnatural
manner.
Twice he fell before the McGraw-
men ere he triumphad in that mem
orable extra inning combat that made
the Nationals rulers of all base ball
dom. Yesterday he merely picked up
where he left off IA year ago this
month and with one OF the greatest
exhibitions ever flashed in title set
Subjugated the Pirates in their own
rendezvous and before a thronc OF
more than 10000 of their rabid
rooterS.
This time Johnson was himself
the old maSter-unWorried by the fact
that thousands upon thousa nds of his
warm admirers at home and through
out the nation were depending upon
him To attain the highest honor in
the sport.
Rare Form Apparent.
From the moment Johnson tossed
his first ball to Eddie Moore at the
outset of the engagement it was ap-
parent he was in rare form. and this
became increasingly evident as he
turned back the F'reebooters inning
after inning. with never more than
one hit to a round. Barney was in great
sha pe-almoSt too good. if such a
thing is possible-for he possessed so
much stuff that little Muddy iRuel,
his battery partner. had difficulty
handling his shoots. this super
abundance of power being responsible
for the fact that Walter walked one
opponent and winged another-MaX
Carey-twice.
Further testimony to the craft of
the veteran and the might of his right
arm is found in the fact that no less
than 10 of the Corsairs fell prey to
his delivery and took the count on
strikes. Moore. Traynor and Smith
alone of the pirate regulars escaped
this fate while Cuyler, Barnhart and
Wright We're victimized twice each.
Whatever additional credit might
have accrued to Johnson from pitch
ing a sCoreleSS game was withheld by
the feat of Pie Traynor. huge third
haseman of the alien outfit. in wallop
ing a ball into the temporary box
seats in right field for circuit of the
bases in the fifth inning. This blow
was merely a duplication sof one
evolved by Joe Harris off Meadows for
the first tally of the game in round
two, and as the Nationals had added
two more counters with some well
hunched bingles in their half of the
fifth Traynor's tap was robbed of
the Importance it otherwise might
have assumed.
Aside from Traynor. only three of
the Pittsburgh phalanx got as far as
second base-Grantham pilfered his
way to the middle cushion after get
ting a life on Peck's high throw to
Judge of an easy roller in the fifth
Bighee also engineered a steal after
cracking single in batting for Smith
in the eighth. and Carey moved to
the middle cushion following his sec
ond winging in the final frame when
Barnhart landed safety to left.
Yielding only five scattered hits to
team deSerVedlV known AS the hard