Show ARE THEY SLIPPING This Arm These Eyes I n V fA I jo j iJ I I Ii II lJ I 0 i By Dean Snyder I I R jj t. t A f i N 6 star itar dust is short lived d stun stuff So Sooner ner or lat later every diamond star feels eels himself slipping 7 The stuff h he used to pull fails to o It Is the turning point from the thee the road that has led up to the other side aide which leads down i To hint that such veteran idols of i ithe the years lears as Ty Cobb arid and Walter Waiter Johnson Johnson John John- I son are not playing x the sounds strange t GREATNESS EXPECTED V They have llave so long ong dominated b baseball as outstanding players that greatness J Js expected expect d of of them f For or fifteen years ears the Georgian Peach has led the batting parade of of- his his' league and outsmarted them all by his new kind of or baseball baseball that that is la doing the unexpected And for tot twelve years years Walter the Gr Great at has smoked up his dabbling sh shoots and his bewildering hooks with w the tho hokum attached that would have made them themI near unbeatable with a ball club back backof backof I of ot him him better jetter than Washington has generally gen gen- proved to be But But But- The faltering work of of both Cobb and Johnson so 80 far tar this fear tear cannot help but raise the question ARE ARE THEY SLIPPING SLIP SLIP- PING KING IS DEAD 4 V V i Both have failed to show the class ass ex expected expected ex- ex of them and of which they have been capable of flashing flashing- back over their years o 0 of triumph j Rec Recently nUy Tyrus played at the Polo grounds beside the newest colossal of baseball Babe Ruth and heard the cruel I. I words hurled a at him im The k king Is dead tt HOw How those words must have cut hiu him I hrs his Southern pride hl his charac charac- t fire o And since that he has started on oh ona oha on ona a batting rampage that has taken him out of ot the ranks of ot the hitters to the select circle of ot as jf It to disprove disprove dis die prove the taunt flung at him CANT CAN'T GO ROUTE S ft I I I r But Bul the great Walt Walter Waltr Johnson hasn't started yet He Is having trouble in ingoing ingoing ingoing going going- the route For a few Innings he heis heis heis is the great Walter Waller Then all at once his stuff the batters fall on every ball he smokes up to the plate and Clark Clarl Griffith l. signals the re relief relief reto re- re lief to start warming up in the pull Cobbs Cobb's hitting bitting slump has come at a time when there are more or better bet bet- ter tel hitters In the American league than there have been for years The barring of or freak pitching pitching- ha has given other players an opportunity to sho shoot lt up toward the top of oC the batting percentages But Cobbs Cobb's eyes for some reason have failed to take his share of the advantage WONDER RECORD Vi i 1 If the Georgian was hitting his normal stride h he ought to be slugging near the tho mark instead of where he is I For For- fifteen years pars and including the I games Cobb has haS' part In up to I June 15 15 the date he went into a hospital hospital hos boa pital following a collision with Ira Flagstead Flagstead Flagstead Flag- Flag stead in which he was Injured Injured- he ha has played In 1970 games g He has b been en at t bat times making 2763 hits for tor a grand average of That alone is Js th the tho greatest feat a player ever pasted In N A 4 JOHNsONs ARM AJ rn n t t 7 p CC B. B his scrapbook But along with his wizard wizard wizard wiz wiz- ard hitting he has also Introduced a a. newer Kind of or baseball the baseball the kind that outguesses outguesses out- out guesses outsmarts outthinks a whole ball T all club WALTERS WALTER'S LEDGER V Johnson's Johnsons record to to date extending back over his twelve years of speed In Inthe inthe the American league credits him with victories and loses But his I percentage tells but little and we can only speculate what a wonder rec record rd hed he'd have made with a a. club like the present array of ot New York or Cleveland sluggers sluggers sluggers slug slug- gers back of him Both are likely to return to the flashy pace they have set over the back stretch of years before the present season goes Into the final flag spurt yet spurt yet the fact mains I-mains that Cobb and and Johnson have fallen fallen fall faU- en short of or their former marks of greatness greatness greatness great great- ness to date in m 1920 |