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Show WEISER TURNS OUT TO PAY HOMAGE TO WALTER JOHNSON These pictures show Walter Johnson, leading pitcher of Amorican loaguo, just starting his swing, just after he has thrown the hall, and performing with tho stick. ' Appearance of Sensational Pitcher in Movies Stirs Town to Depths. - WALTER JOHNSON. Inimltablo fkf twlrlor or Washington's crew, Wft missed last week the tribute that V v would havo warmed the cookies of his heart moro than any other when a "previous engagement" prevented his attendance at a small moving picture show rit Welsor. says a story from the bustling Idaho town. Advertised In advance ad-vance by an enterprising manager. John- ton appeured In the "movies" in the act of receiving from admiring Washington funs a hiiRC silver loving cup stuffed with currency. The yarn proceeds: Jlere in the liltlo town whore ho had mado his initial appearanco in semi-professional almost "town-lot" ball the aarne ardent fans who worshiped wor-shiped him then gathered In the film theater and cheered themselves hoarsu when tho first viowa they had seon of their celebrity since ho abandoned the oush for his real career were shown. .The manager of the llttlo show snop advertised .tho Nationals' twlrlor in movies for only a alnglo evening Half an hour before the doors of the theater were to open there was a line of Johnson's old friends befoce the ticket window. The line grew. By the time the operator was rady to start his machine the street In front of the houec who Jammed with twice as many patrons as the scat' lng capacity could accommodate, ;Tovn Turns Out. i All were there men and women I crowded, crammed and Htandlng in the Inadequate space of the theater Young men who were In kneo pantn when Johnson's fame was purelv local, lo-cal, girls at whosf admiring glances he used to bltihli and who havo since become wives and mothers, men who had affectionately called him Walt as thoy slapped hlni on the back In admiration and oncouragemcnt a fow years ago, the mistress of his old boarding house, some of his teammates team-mates all were thero. It was a turnout turn-out of the town's population. The coming of President Wilson, the sudden sud-den appearance of. a sea monster, could havo attracted no greater crowd. Wise In theater psychology, the-manager the-manager of the miniature playhouse in the hour of his greatest triumph withheld until tho end of the performance per-formance the "feature" of his bill. Outside twice as many as wore In clamored to enter, Inside, the unusual audience fldgoted and squirmed as rool after reel depleting hairbreadth escapes es-capes from burning buildings and every ev-ery other sensation but tho ono they had come to see wus run. Then, with an Impressive and seemlnglv endless end-less pause camo tho film which contained con-tained a few seconds of Johnson, the mighty Suddenly ho was before the throng of his old friends and townspeople. On the screen he wound up for a throw, and as tho pictorial ball sped from his fingers, some one unable longer to restrain hie emotion, started clapping, In an instant, the walls of the crowded theater resounded with cheer upon cheer. Outside the eagerly eager-ly waiting crowd (unable to see but recognising the tribute for their hero) took up the refrain. Tne reel was run, but tho audience did not move, demanding a repotitlon and again the star of the Nationals camo into view and again received the enthusiastic plaudits of the crowd. Crowd Fills Theater. Out of tho exit filed the spectators, many of whom In scorn had remained away from the movies until this nlghU when even prejudice against "emotion "emo-tion pictures" could not keep them away. Into the entrance hurried tho waiting throng, and once mora the theater was filled. Three performances perform-ances were given that night to audiences au-diences that, oroke every reoord. and at each ono Johmion all unconscious was the. recipient of an ovation that would havo dono hl8 heart good. "Who'd a thought that striplln would ovor become so groatT' ono old fellow murmured as he came out of tho theater. "Why, I always flg-gered flg-gered he was a good pitcher for these parts, but I never thought h'd got to top or anywhere's near It." "Huh," snorted hltf companion In (Continued on Following Page.) WILL m HOIK TO WALTER JMBM (Continued from Preceding Page.) all the wisdom of youth. "I always paid ho was the greatest ball player In the world. Goo whiz, why, the day ho won that thlrteon-lnnlng game against the Caldwell sluggers you could Just see tho real stuff stlckin' out all over him. It wan a cinch that he'd wake 'em up, outstdo the brush or in It." And so It went. Every ono of his old friends. bubbling over with reminiscences, dozens of them telling tell-ing some little personal incident of the days when Johnson clerked all week in a store and pitched ono wonderful won-derful gamo each holiday in tho llt-tlo llt-tlo bush league. Since hl3 departuro hundreds hero who never knew before that there was a difference bot,woon tho American league and tho American Amer-ican association have become exports on major league baseball through tho eagerness with which they havo followed fol-lowed the career of their favorite In tho newspapers. Som of the more ardont have even subscribed regularly to sporting papers in order to obtain every scrap of nows they could got of Johnson's doings. Is Weiser's Famous Man. Since tho gangling, green youth left the eagobrush of tho Welser of that time the town has achieved great things. It has doubled Its population, tho old diamond whore Johnson used to twirl his victories has becomo a modern residence cec- , Hon, public-spirited townspeople havo built a five-story modern hotel that would do credit to a town of 100,- : 000 people; G0.000 acres of sagebrush havo been conquered by Irrigation enterprises and made lo yield fabulous fabu-lous profits in crops of 'all kinds to their owners; oven now the great Crano creek irrigation project, which will reclaim 2G.O0O acres of fertile land next spring and provide homes for hundreds of settlors, is under construction: con-struction: tho streets tlirongh which peerless Waltor morally waded during dur-ing his "Welser career have boon paved and graded and half a million dollars has been Invested in" city improvements: im-provements: many men who were struggling for a commercial foothold when Johnson's fame blazed on the local horizon have become prosperous and scoros of othor big achievements, "both of thft community nnd of the Individual, in this starting point of Johnson's career, could bo enumerated enumer-ated Despite all this, the stranger in Welser asking almost any man, wom-on wom-on or child in tho communttv what hud been the town's greatest single achievement, would recelvo without equivocation tho answer Waller Johnson. This. then, was tho rua-son rua-son why sober, serious-minded professional pro-fessional mon who never had visited a moving picture theater more than onco before turned out laat woMc to see the National's twlrlcr in action. This was why cheer after cheer wont up as tho all-uncon.'cious flguro of tho man they idolized appeared on the scroen. It was tho frnrnt tribute of th old "home loun" to one of tl.o hnsU who Mis 'u"omo groat In tho ocs of |