Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1951-03-25
By George Cornell

Story Came From Carey.
Cullen Cain, blind sports column
mist of the Miami Sunday News
who watched the series from the
pressbox as director of special
services of the National League,
tells the story as it was related
to him by Max Carey, now a resi-
dent of Miami Beach, who was
captain of the Pirates at the time,
and their star outf1elder and base
runner.
The deciding game and the Sc
ries was won. not on the ball field
on that gloomy. rainy day, but in
"a Washington taxicab week
earlier. And the villain of the
piece, from the Senators stand
point, was Bobby Veach, former
outfielder and siege gun of the
Tigers, who in 1925 was with
Washington.
Veach. confident as were all
the Senators that his team. lead
ing the Pirates three games to
one. had the series in the bag
and that Johnson had made his
last appearance on the mound,
let drop that johnson "tele-
graphed" his pitches.
One Run in Two Games.
1t happened Immediately after
the fourth game in Washington,
when Johnson had shut out the
Pirates, 40, with six hits. He had
beaten them. Al, and given four
hits in the Pittsburgh opener.
Jack Onslow, an old catcher
and coach of the Pirates, grabbed
a taxi to ride to the downtown
hotel where the Pittsburgh team
was staying. Before the cab got
under way, Veach piled in. Now
Veach and Onslow had been
teammates in Detroit. According
Ito Carey, the two talked over the
game just concluded, and then
about old times on the Tigers.
Tell me. Bob" Onslow said to
Veach, How was it you could al
ways hit johnson. I couldn't get
a piece of him any time, but you
hammered him all over the lot
We'll, it was this way" began
Veach, and then he hesitated. Il
oughtn't to tell you this. Well
maybe it's all right. You boys
aren't hitting and the series ought
to end tomorrow. Our fellows don t
want to go back to Pittsburgh
they want to wind up the series
tomorrow. Anyway, there isn't a
chance of johnson pitching again
Il hit Johnson because I knew
what he was throwing. When he
started his fast ball, his arm went
all the way back on a pivot. YoL
couldn't miss that one. And when
he started to throw curve, he
didn't go back quite as far
Shows How It's Done.
And here Veach flung his arm ir
the cab to show Onslow what he
meant.
well, what do you know" ex-
claimed Onslow. Here we were
buddies and you never tipped me
off when it could have helped me.
The Pirates won the next da,
and the series went back tt
Pittsburgh. A couple of games Were
rained out, but Pittsburgh tied il
up, and with a seventh game tx
play, Bucky Harris, manager Of
the Senators, had no one left but
johnson. The game itself was q
nightmare for both sides. In The
very first inning, Catcher Ear
Smith messed up a double play by
interference and the Senator.
scored four runs.
But the Pirates came back. Tht
batters walked up to the plate
loose and confident. They begar
to lombard the Big Train. The
game was tied, to 6, at the
end of the seventh inning. The
rain poured down and Forbes
Field was almost dark.
But Judge Lands, from his box
insisted that the game go on
Field attendants burned off the
base paths with gasoline ano
poured Sawdust on the pitchers
mound.
Eighth Inning Nightmare.
The Senators scored in the
eighth to go ahead, 7-6, and ir
the Pittsburgh half of the inning
Glenn Wright fouled out ane
Stuffy McInnis flied to Sam Rice
But then the Pirates got to John.
son again.
Smith hit a long double to right
and Emil Yde ran for him. He
scored the tying run when Carson
Bigbee, batting for Ray Kremer
doubled. Here Moore was passed
and the inning looked over when
Carey sent a grounder to short
But Roger Peckinpaugh first han
died the ball poorly, then threw
wide to Harris at second alsp