Show WALTER ALTER JOHNSON IS lOSING CONTROl OVER SPEED I I That Is Said to Be Why I He Has Lost So Many Games to Date WASHINGTON Sept 1 What wt was wa to have bc been n Walter Johnson's Johnsons greatest year ear In baseball 1 ta rapidly evaporating I to the br dwindling os Into a record that can hardly bo called when r referring to him as u anything more than thana a mediocre performance The spell I formerly by tho the mere men mention on of ot othis I Ws his name DimO la 18 losing i Its charm Tho The fear bar that once leaped to tho hearts of ot ambitions am when ho faced them in the box la ts spending its ita force J Johnson is in n a fair way o of paining th the title tWo Wild Walter alter Johnson unes unless un less es he In steadies hL his hu control in tho the near future He lie still possesses all the daz- daz I dins speed d that ha has made 1 de him famous amous 0 ns nt well as os K 1 t terror to nil all American ri lea league ue hatters batters but tho fancy twists and hoots hoot the ball hall ho delivers no now takes f furnishes an interesting nJ lesson n in in curves eUr and Rn angles le lie lio to haeLst have hae I lost entirely the knack of ot control Sometimes his lill pitches shoot foot feet to one fide Ide of the plate and in an equal distance to the other side lIide And Arni his lack of ot form ha has hM been a bi big handicap handi cap to the tho Senators What Johnson has hru dono done in the box this year furnishes a curious contract with the tho work of ot Mathewson After tho groat record tho the bi big bier W Washington twirler made for tor himself last year there thero was every overy indication that this season would eee FCC him Dim in the zenith of ot his Ms JI glory 0 ry Predictions wore Were freely ma made matle e that Johnson would establish an ane e entirely new pitching record for bi big league o baseball excelling anything the tho notable stars or oi tho the past had done dono His form lonn had been heen superb in tho latter part of last fea reason on His Hi feats on the diamond dia dia- mond Included among other othor thin things a anew new ow bi big len league o record for consecutive l vo innings in which opposing teams hams had feuded t to score off oll any individual pitcher Now Johnson is running loose as a n wild pitcher with a n record of twenty games comes won and fourteen lost which is good od enough bu far from what be he had been expected to do In cold figures i Mattye Mattys record of ot twenty games won and eight lost loet is not only considerably better but In reality is ill far above o that of ot his bill American Ameri Amen can n league rival for tho the laEl at a three defeats de do- feats char charged chard d against him bim were duo due to the inability of his hill teammates to help hep him out when nil nU sorts of chano pro pro- themselves and not to any fault of MH iH own Mattys Matty's official record d now stand twenty three games James TOri Do an lost |