Show W At TER IS PITCHING i 1 Its It's too bad that Walter Waiter Johnson the Idaho Wonder onder is not pitching for tor a club better M than Washington With proper I support and a reasonable amount of hitting hit hitting ting tin behind him he would be about the tJ beet beat In the American league As It is ii he hestand 1 stands stand but in the ac figures rea sanh although Jb In pitching alone he be should be away up I I at the top 1 In two thirty-two games he ha has struck out men n an average e e of tour four per game I He lie has ai allowed w 17 Iff hits about six p per r n and that on a 1 losing 1 team Next to W Frank Smith and It he ho has pitched more league games than any other pitcher piu n a California boy Is a pitcher t rl nr tf who has baa been doing grand work o this sea aea- son lie He has pitched thirty-four thirty games for Boston and won fourteen losing seven He lie has been u used ed to complete many contests contests con con- tests and in that role met with success 11 He lie has given g n only twenty-three twenty bases on balls and his excellent control has halt been one of the strong factors In his favor Big Ed of the Cubs having I gained control l Is coming to the front In to Inthe the National league rapidly He lie now stands next to Brown In who Is second onto on only to Camnitz and Mathewson has allowed only about five hits per game ame and has Issued on an average of about two bases on balls quite a n. record for him Mathewson leads In number of shutouts shutouts shut shut- outs having blanked the opposition five times and Bell nell also stand with him |