Show Big Train Will Try to Washington By EDDIE GILMORE Associated Press Sports Writer WASHINGTON ASHINGTON V Feb Fob 18 Rep 18 Rep Representative Sol Bloom of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York offered 20 to 1 odds today that Walter Johnson Johnon will not succeed sue suc in throwing a 4 silver dollar across the Rappahannock river on on the anniversary of at George G orge Washington's V birthday Saturday But up on his Germantown Maryland farm Johnson former king of at big league baseball base base- ball began practicing with a n dollar dol dol- lar against his barn do door r. r Maybe Maybo I t cant can't throw that far he drawled but theres there's one ono thin thing certain certain it if George Washington did it itI I can Bloom who is director of the tho George Washington bicentennial commission flew into a high that tho the dudgeon over o the myth first president performed the feat h he Why hy Its It's preposterous preposterous said Its lIts ridiculous Not only is isit isit IsIt it physically impossible but if It you boll boil down the fable table you'll find that Washington Washington was about 10 years old when the miracle was Vas supposed to have happened With the tho snow a ft foot deep Johnson commenced his practice with a n silver dollar borrowed in Washington by a n newspaperman and carried to Germantown The The- former pitcher stepped off oft 50 yards Ho He faced a yellow barn door and drew back his right armIt arm It came down In that same sweepIng sweep sweep- ing way that won von him lasting baseball fame and the tho coin whizzed whiz whiz- zed red through the tho air Ping it went against the tho door A hired hand stuck his head out of the lof loft that he asked Silver dollar said ald Johnson Im throwing it it The Tho man shook his head at such antics and withdrew You dont don't throw a dollar ex ex- cx- cx Johnson you sail san i it See how that one rose Say maybe maybo we will be able to do this yet yot In accepting the thc Invitation of ot Fr Fredericksburg Virginia officials the former hurler said he made it conditional on two points 1 Someone Not Johnson must furnish the dollar 2 He wont won't put on a c colonial lonial costume Governor George C. C Peery Pecry of ot Virginia is expected to witness tho throw which will be a a. feature of ot the tho annual birthday exercises in the historic city Congressman Bloom has two conditions connected cd with his wager 1 Johnson must stand on the river bank near the tho Ferry farm associated with tho the early a ly life Ufe of at Washington 2 All bets are off oft if It a freak wind favors favors' the pitcher Bloom said it is a pity that the Fredericksburg city fathers cannot cannot cannot can can- not figure out some cont contest t to test the truthfulness of the tho cherry tree treo story At Fredericksburg It was said the Rappahannock at the dollar throwing point Is from t to feet teet from bank to bank The longest baseball throw on on record is feet |