Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-15

leaders and professional men of the
city who will devote much OF their
time for the next fortnight to make
Walter Johnson day real success.
While plans for suitable testimo-
NAL to Johnson are as yet nebulous.
it is virtually certain that out OF the
receipts of the game, aided by dona-
lions from admirers Of Johnson, will
be erected at the entrance to the base
ball park. life-size bronze statue OF
the ace of the Washington pitching
staff.
Medal to Be Presented.
In addition plans are in the making
for formal presentation to Johnson Of
a medal by the American League in
honor Of his lengthy and meritorius
service with one club. Any money left
over after the statue Is erected will be
made available to Walter Johnson's
family in some form-preferably not
in cash, but in the form of a paid-up
life insurance policy, or in another
substantial way. The type Of testimo-
NAL to be presented to Johnson has
not been definitely decided upon, Gen.
Stephan announced.
The committee in charge OF the an
niverSary celebration is made up of
the following: Herbert Hoover, hon.
orary chairman; Maj. Gen. Anton Ste
phan, active chairman; Thomas A.
Flaherty. secretary, and Robert V.
Fleming, treasurer. An executive
committee is composed of the follow
ing: Clark c. Griffith, president of
the Washington Base Ball Club; Karl
w. Corby, Frank p. Morse. ]. Thil-
man Hendrick, Donald Woodward,
Roy L. Neuhauser, Rudolph Kauff-
mann, Edward B. Mclean. Lee Miller.
c. /. Putnam. w. w. Spaid, James
G. Yaden, Edwin G. Graham, presi-
dent the Washington Board of Trade;
Martin A. Leese, president the Cham
Der of Commerce; William H. Green.
president the American Federation Of
Labor: John F. Maury, president the
Washington Real Estate Board:
Charles Moore, chairman the National
Commission of Fine Arts: David
Lynn, architect of the Capitol; Sem
ator Pat Harrison, Representative
Fred N. Zihlman, Mrs. Charles Shack.
elford. Mrs. James Carroll Frazer
and DR.. Emmett ]. Scott, president
Of Howard University. In addition, a
general committee of $500 Washing
ton residents, all of whom joined in
the testimonial dinner to Cuno H.
Rudolph, retiring Commissioner, will
aid in plans for the celebration.
Subscriptions Being Asked.
Letters marking the first step In
undertaking the johnson day celebra.
ton, soliciting subscriptions to the
fund for the testimonial and the
statue Of the hurler. began going out
today to selected list of residents Of
the city. In addition the general pub
lie will be urged to subscribe to the
johnson day fund. Headquarters of
the committee have been opened in
the Rust Building in the offices Of
Karl w. Corby. A mass meeting of
the executive committee and the gen.
eral committee is to be held at the
City Club within a fortnight. while
the executive committee, spearhead Of
the celebration, will meet at the
Racquet Club tomorrow morning to
consider further plans for the celebra-
ton.
A Washington stone-cutting con-
Germ has donated the marble shaft on
which the life-size statue of Johnson
will stand. Designs for the statue will
be taken UP with the Commission of
Fine Arts and competitive designs
requested of the leading sculptorS OF
the country.
Ban B. Johnson, former president Of
the American League, will come to
Washington on August to be pres
ent at the anniversary. johnson also
will confer with Chairman Moore or
the Commission of Fine Arts. on the
statue to be erected to base ball IN
East Potomac Park.
Only Player Remaining.
johnson, alone Of the so players
on the Washington and Detroit clubs
who faced on August 2. remains as
an active player on the two CLUBS
which met on the day he toed the
rubber in a major league base pan
park for the first time-and lost MS
first game because of his AWKWARD
ness and lack of fielding ability.
On that hot August day 20 years
ago Walter johnson was knocked out
of the box-his speed rendered use
less by a fusillade of bunts that rat
tied off the bats of the Detroit play
ers a nd found the tall, awkward rookie
unable to handle them.
Only one of the men who played
with Johnson on that day is still
cayorting around major. league dia-
monds-Tyrus Raymond Cobb, fiery
Georgian, who had broken into the big
leagues two years earlier--in 1905
and then beginning the meteoric ca
reer that has ranked him with the
great of base ball. But Cobb is no
longer with Detroit, and johnson is
still with the same club he worked
for when he first broke into the big
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