Show I HONORS IN BASEBALL T TO WALTER JOHNSON 1 RECORD REMARKABLE I I I J Walter Valler Johnson has been recognized as I Ione Ione one of the greatest pitchers the game j jever I ever produced For the last decade he 4 has ranged among less than half halt a dozen I twirlers In the major l leagues agues While an 4 Individual pitcher may have excelled him r for a particular season Johnsons Johnson's record I along with that o of or Alexanders Alexander's stands out conspicuously as the best for the last J eight years t r tHe He Is now serving his eleventh season with Washington the club with which I he entered the major arena Including the games he has won this season Johnson Johnson John John- son has a string siring of ot 63 63 victories to his J credit This means that his average per I season reaches nearly twenty-four twenty games This is a remarkable record especially when It Is considered that the speed king won a total of only two thirty-two games his first three years In the majors he enterIng enterIng entering enter- enter J Ing as as' a a. boy in his teens I 5 1 Exclusive of ot his work orle this season Johnson Johnson John John- son ion has struck out 2297 batsmen and I passed batters A high average of ot handed out in his first his passes was I 1 years when he lacked the fine control I 1 he now Like his compeer of ot the decade Alexander Johnson never has I achieved the feat teat so dear to the heart of I every pitcher a pitcher a no-hit no game Three times however he has held opponents to toa toa a single hit while he has figured in two seventy-two shutout battles Including the games he has hag lost this year he ha has haB suffered defeat in games In his liis sixteen years of service Mathewson Mathew Mathew- son won games and lost while for forthe forthe forthe the same period Eddie Plank won 20 and lost |