Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-17

w WALTER JOHNSON will mo-
get a pitching turn in the
NV series with the Tigers
Manager Stanley Harris
has said although the
great veteran of 20 campaigns in the
American League declares he now
feels quite fit to hurl.
Instead of sending Walter to The
hill for the Sunday game after Horace
Lisenbee and Al Crowder have had
their filings against George Moriarty's
crew. Harris plans to employ young
Irving Hadley in the last clash OF
the series. IIadley is a fast bal
pitcher the type that particularly ap
peals to the Washington pilot. and
Bucky is confident the young fellow
is ready to give the best exhibition OF
his brief career in the major show.
Evidently those in charge of the
Nationals do not consider the veteran
johnson, who came back to the slab
SO brilliantly on May 80 after a long
lay-off due to the leg fracture he sus-
tanned during the training season IN
Florida, really in good enough con-
.lition to take a regular turn on the
hill. After beating the Red Sox,
Walter fell before the Browns and
Indians. His last effort on the slab
was made a week ago yesterday.
johnson Feels Fit.
Johnson. however, insists he is in
better trim now than when he stopped
the Red Sox with three hits. He re-
CARDS his leg as fully recovered from
the effects of the fracture and his sal
airy wing as strong as 1t was at any
time last year After a workout yes
terday, the veteran said he was pre-
pared to take a turn at once. but 1t
seems he will have to wait at least
until the Nationals invade foreign
fields before he goes to the firing line.
Neither Johnson nor any other Ma
tional hurler would do much with the
hacking the club gave. or rather failed
to give, Hollis Thurston yesterday in
the opening game of the series with
the Tigers. Until the ninth inning
Hollis pitched pretty good ball, and
did not deserve to have run scored
against him. However. the Nationals
not only handed tallies to the Tigers
on a silver platter, but also fell easy
victims to the heaving Of Ulysses
Grant Stoner. Highlander of
Moriarty's staff. AS result. they
took a 6-to-1 beating.
Only four hits and two passes We're
CLEANED off Stoner, and but one OF the
Nus lllC liidhAhS Va VIC ioiaS
run registered against him in the
eighth inning, when he was working
under a fairly comfortable lead. The
smuggling pair Of the Nationals, Iris
Speaker and Goose Goslin. were abso-
lutely helpless before the Tiger hurler.
each failing to get on the runway in
four trips to the plate.
Thurston, too, was especially good
during the first eight frames. He
yielded six safeties during that time,
the Tigers twice punching blows for
markers. With faultless support in
these innings, though, Hollis would
have kept Moriarty's men away from
the plate. In the ninth he faltered,
and a hit batter and two swats Melted
the visitors their only really earned
runs of the fray.
Those would have been enough to
beat him, at that, the way the Nation.
ais were not hitting. Their bats yes
tefiay were just so much useless
wood.
1t fell to Bucky Harris lot to be
the main ally Of the Tigers among the
Nationals ranks. After going
through 10 games and accepting ia
chances without error, Bucky had two
nisplays charged against him and