New Britain herald., 1930-03-31
By WILLIAM BRAGCHER (NEA Service Sports Editor)

Chattanooga. Tenn, March 31.- call them the breaks'-havc been against Walter Johnson. But the ganglind kid from Weser, Idaho who walked up to the late Joe Can tillon more than 20 years ago and threw strikes past the American league batters for a score Of years has just begun to fight.
 Walter Johnson fought with los ing ball club during nearly all of his baseball life. Hes was the greatest natural pitcher the world ever has seen. But the team he worked for finished fifth, sixth, seventh, last,
 Last year the experts looked at Walter Johnson's ball team and placed their blessings upon it. There were pitchers, there was a snappy infield and a go-g getting outticld, and there was the great Gosin to clean up the sacks. But the Great Goose began batting like Durocher. Ossie Bluegc turned up with a trick knee. Illness placed the Big Train in wheel chair. The team that had been acclaimed went haywire. As a team it battcd fifth, just a notch ahead of the funlbling Tigers,
 And this year, with new strength needed all along the line, the Old Fox of Baseball, Clark Griffith, has given Walter just five rockies to work with. The Fox, who is said to wear fish hooks on his pockets, seems to be working on the theory that nine men in uniform, with Wal ter Johnson out there coaching, will draw customers into the Washington ball yard, and since customers is the main idea. why be cleemosynary?
 They Owe Him Good Year
 Goose Goslin may not know it, but he owes year of .560 hitting to the man who threw his life away with fast balls only to be handed wet baseball to pitch in that world series with the Pirates. Not only the Goose-but every man of them owes a great baseball year to Walter Johnson, baseball's man of tragedy
 Illness, and accidents. and Goslin.
 With the smallest squad of any of the big league clubs in training. Walter Johnson is going on in the same imperturbable way, fighting the breaks, with a team that breaks should bring into the first division.
 We should have done better last year." Walter told me. You've got to have q sluggcr That's primary in baseball. The best pitching and fielding mean nothing without the punch at the plate.
 We figured on the Goose and guessed wrong. He didn't bat 300 for us last year. Boss and Cronin and Hayes didn't bat 800, either. Joe Judge and Buddy Myer had good years at the plate but Ossic Blucge had trouble with his leg and that kept us back. He had trouble again this spring. too.
 or lntlcldCrs we got 10 depend on Judge and MyCr and Joe Crouin and Harley Boss and Blucce and Jimmy Mcleod from Little Rock. Needs a Fielder With Pep
 "Catchcrs? Well, there's Muddy Eucl and Ben Tate and Roy Spcn- ccr. Roy has been q holdout. Might make deal for him-T don't know.
 "Id like to have ono more out fielder out there who can crash that apple. Some youngstcr, with lot of ginger. This George Locpp hit over 800 for Baltimorc last year. sam Rice knocked a few of 'em out Of the lot last year too. sam West didn't have such q great year at the bat, but he's in there all the time. May have to put Rcd Barnes in loft field if Goose don't deliver. Of course Red cant bat like Goose"
 There is nothing to be done about the pitching staff. The only new pitchers in the camp are Carlos Moore, a right lander from Birm- lngham, and Herb Pyle, who won 2 while losing 17 for Chattanooga last year. The pitching should be adc- 1uatc, with t'irpo Marbcrry, Car land EraAton, Irving Hadlcy, Sad Sam Jones, Lloyd Brown, Bob Burke, Ad Liska, Mylcs Thomas and Isan | Savidgc.
 | The difference one batsnlan can 1 make in q ball team is amazing If l the Goose fails this year again, Wal. i ter Johnson's ball team has to have another hitter. Otherwise the story of this years Washington team will be the same as last, when they bat. ted fifth, folded fifth and finished 1 fifth.
 He D"sr."r- i:c:s"r Tate
 Those ball players owe something better than fifth to the man wh,