Evening star., 1925-02-09

What happened to him is history.
He was beaten In a nerve-racking
thinning battle. by a score Of to
3, after pitching q great game. Two
homers by Kelly and Terry in the
temporary left field bleachers put
him at a disadvantage. Both would
have been easy outs on an open field.
We picked up run in the sixth and
tied the score in the ninth on Peck
inpaush's double.
McNeely didn't play in far enough
for Nehf in the twelfth. The Pitch
er's short whack got away from him
and then he made a bad throw. This
put Gowdy, who had been hit by
Johnson. on third, and Nehf on sec
ond We snuffed Gowdy out at the
plate on Frisch's bounder. Nehf later
scored on Young's short hit to center.
Again McNeely was playing a bit too
deep. The Giants got what proved
to be the winning run on Kelly's
long fly.
| sent Shirley to bat for Johnson.
He went to second when Jackson
muffed his pop fly. I scored Shirley
with a hit to center after McNeely
had popped out. Nehf was plainly
weakening Rice crashed the ball to
center Southworth juggled 1t a bit
and Rice kept on to second. he took
a chance on putting the winning run
on the middle station. He is a. fast
man on the bases and had the per-
centage in his favor. Kelly, on top of
this, made q wonderful stop of Cos
Inns smash that Nehf was unable to
field. He shot the ball to Terry just
step ahead of the Washington
slugger for the third out. He saved
a tie.
Johnson's next effort in the series
wasn't SO good. The Giants hit him
hard and were entitled to their 6 to
2 victory. But even then we always
had a chance until the eighth when
the Giants got three runs. johnson
himself helped them by fumbling
Wilson's roller But for that the
Giants wouldn't have scored in the
eighth. He was heartbroken after
his second defeat.
Greatest Pitcher Of All Time.
Fans throughout the country, who
! for years had been pulling for johnson
| to get in a world series, realized his
| first defeat had been excusable. They
predicted that he would have the Giants
eating out of his hand the next time he
! faced them. And the great pitcher had
| failed again. No wonder he was heart
broken. He had pitched us to victory
in the American League race only to
fall down in the big interleague test,
not once, but twice.
| Before we won the pennant he told
| me one night that IL he could help
| Washington lead the league he didn't
care what happened to his arm. He
added that he didn't mind If he never
pitched in a world series. Such is the
! loyalty of the greatest pitcher OF all
| time. / cheered him up as best could
after the defeat in New York. ! knew
he had pitched two creditable games. l
| told him so. l figured even then on
calling upon him If we played seventh
game and the opportunity presented It
self.
There couldn't have been a moro
! dramatic setting for johnson than when
he went in in the ninth with the score
tied in the deciding game Of the series.
He was my ace in the hole. l played
him and won. Before the game I de-
cided upon using Ogden to pitch to one
batter then substituting MoGridge. This,
! figured, would cause John McGraw to
switch to his right-handed batting
order and bench Bill Terry. I consid-
| cred Terry the most dangerous hitter
| in a pinch on the New York club. As
1t turned out the leader of the Giants
didn't take Terry out until the sixth.
I'm glad my strategy worked even that
late. Otherwise Terry would have
come un in the ninth against johnson
with Frisch on third, Young on second
and two out. He might have won the
game and the world championship for
the Giants then and there. Anyhow,
I'm glad he didn't have chance.
Ogden struck out Lindstrom, the
first man to face him. He had won
nine league games after Joining US
! when supposedly through in the
majors. He had a sore arm when
he came to Washington. But a warm
er climate, the attention OF Trainer