Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-10-05 | Page 10 | Johnson is One of Game's Most Deserving Men

Johnson Is On One of pam Games Game's ts Most Deserving Men Johnson may find a a. mar managerial 1 place with one one of the other major Jea league clubs dubs If he still wishes to stay slay in t the game or he no doubt can locate lo lo- cate with some minor league club V V but it seems seems regrettable that Wash ington should dispose of him so un un- ceremoniously V The Big Train Tram had b become a fixture at the capital He became a 8 star at t start when only an ungainly kid of f 19 he hI h was shIp shipped from Idaho to the capital city In 1907 and his hs f famous fa a- a mo speed peed ball pitching was Washington's Wash ington's o outstanding standing threat for twenty years For more than three quarters of ol those years he tolled toiled on the pitching hill at Washington the Senators gave him him woeful support rt usually finishing in the second division His chances lor for glory were slim compared to those of pitchers with Bost Boston n when th eRed Sox were in their heyday or of twirlers twirl twirl- ers with powerful clubs lik like the present pres pres- ent eat day Yankees Athletics or even V the Phillies back of him Hut BUI ut me the tug Big Tram Train Kept nis hIs sp at the opposing batsmen setting a strikeout record that Is still stilla I Ia a target for enterprising pitchers and 1 keeping f Washington out of the cellar by h his pitching alone His speed was dwindling when V the Senators finally V fought their way into the 1924 series against the Giants Giant and fate spurned his first two bids for tor world series fame as V the Giants beat him each time Then in the deciding game the grand old man man anon of baseball the baseball the Big Tram Train with much of the zip gone from his delivery delivery dared dared the gods of chance once more and stepping into the breach as a relief hurler brought the Senators through to victory in twelve innings Now Nowthen Nowthen Nowthen then Griffith would lead the world to believe that Johnson is through That the man who fanned approximately ba batters rs in his timo time is is' not cunning enough to lead a a team And that despite the fact that the I Senators under Johnson won won 24 4 of their l last t 28 games this year and were the only team in the league this summer to hold the edge over the world champion Yankees in their league encounters