Show 4 vt W 4 sk 17 41 k A Z 4 4 how do they know what johnsons got Whet whether tier lie ha uses a curva curve lor or not whether his break Is set bet how can c in they tell how his outa hoots to fall T hta his Incur vos big or sma chow can they tell what hes hea got onabe ball Nob odys dmn it yet yel 0 sang bang a minor poet of the major leagues the hero of this baseball epic was walter johnson tho the marvelous pitcher of the washington club who 7 has justel just eaten beaten all records iby hurling burling the ball for 56 consecutive innings with such skill and cunning that not a batsman ot of an opposing club haa has been able to score a run speed was the groat great factor in the achievement dazzling sizzling speed the big idahoans Idah Idaho oana ans delivery Is like mhd flight of a shell the mightiest hitters 15 of the american league are as bel helpless pless as town lot players when johnson turns loose his fastest ball ty cobb home run baker and jackson alike are babes in hla his hands johnsons amazing swiftness in pitching lu Is no mere fancy it has been measured in the testing room of the remington arroa arms company at bridgeport conn john son showed that his right ar arm m could hurl the baseball base balf at the rate of feet a second it was acknowledged that he could do even better because in athletic parlance he bo was not warmed up it Is well known that a hurler gathers speed as a 4 game progresses johnson flung the sphere through an aperture ln in a frame of wood about two feet square running from top t to bottom were ten very delicate and filmy copper wires these were broken by the ball and by an electrical device the tha moment of passage was mas accurately timed five yards away was waa a steel plate and the impact of 0 f the ball on this barrier again caused the electric clock to register thus the exact time of the balls flight was mathematically determined tho the velocity obtained by johnsoa Is IB at all I 1 the mare more extraordinary when lt dt is known that a bullet from the anew new g governments government 4 5 automatic pistol travels SOO feet per second A high power hunting rifle 35 caliber auto loading travels 2000 feet per second the twentieth century limited the fastest long distance train in the world makes the miles from new york to chicago in just 20 hours tor or an average speed of miles every hour this means a velocity of nearly 72 feet a second suppose johnsons spee dball kept on traveling at feet a second right on toward the windy city at its own hurricane speed it would eat up the feet chicago in just 11 hours and 48 minutes the ball would beat the train to chicago by eight hours and 12 minutes in other words the catcher who received the ball could go to bed have a full nights rest get up and into his hla URI uniform again and bo be on oil hand in the morning to meet meat the twentieth century as she rolled into chicago putting it another way the train leaves new york at 1 p m daily time its Is set back at buffalo by just an hour so BO that the onrushing train gains 60 minutes on her westward journey eleven hours and 48 rain utes after the start johnsons Johne ons lender bender haf gaii reached chicago or at a m chicago time the roaring locomotive lopo motive has just plunged through cleveland without stopping more than miles away the striking energy of johnsons John Bons missile was shown to be toot pounds that means that it possessed approximately halt half the force in impact of 0 fired from a 45 automatic pistol according to these figures it takes less than halt a second for a ball thrown by johnson at his high speed to travel from ills hla fingers to catchers glove I 1 thit that la is why he bewilders even the quickest witted batsman Dats man ile he able to guess whether it Is a straight ball an in or an out curve a drop or whether the sphere is ie going to jump up into the air in defiance of the law of g I 1 any time you get a lilt hit oft off johnson declared napoleon cajole himself one of the most formidable wield era of the bat that the game ever knew you must not think that youre smart just figure that youre lucky lucky that you were able to make that blind swing at just the right spot there never was and I 1 doubt it if there ever will be a pitcher as great as johnson it he be turned loose hardest throw with his best curve on it ino no catcher could get down in time to receive the ball every ball he throws has stuff on it that cant be solved some of the hops that his swiftest ones take are bigger curves than a man ever threw before ive seen him slam balls up to the plate that look larger than a pinhead not surprising la Is it that johnson Is such a terror the quiet modest young idaho youth yo ah he la is only twenty five years old also fooled his opponents into giving him another record last year he kout men in innings none of the other wizards could touch that mark before ho he became a big leaguer league r striking out batsmen batsman was merely a pastime for him out in weiser when only nineteen he was waa playing in the idaho state league and among the performances credited to him was the striking out of the first eight men who faced him in an important game sad and he lator struck out 04 11 other men during the nine innings i and the these s b men were an all crook crack play ere era many of whom are now stars in tho western leagued lea guen in that idaho idabo I 1 season johnson was the slab blab artle artist t in fifty seven straight games in w which litch not a run was scored off hla his delivery so you see ho he got the habit early after that feat cat johnson applied to various smart ma managers 0 of tho the clubs in tho the big cities hut they even een give him a trial they were its gainful dain ful nud and easily declared doclar od that john sell would bo be shuttered shattered by tho the heavy artillery of tile the major leagues it remained for tho the then tall ender andor washington team to scud catcher beenken ship in 1907 out to to investigate tile iho picturesque stories that came caino east cast of the youths pro prowess webs the scout lost no ehno in getting johnson to sign a contract as soon eoon as aa lie he had seen scon hlin him pitch afew a few innings that washington la Is now one of tile tho leading clubs of the american league la Is duo in large part to tho skill of the western recruit when johnson matte made good from the jump there was woo 00 oo among nil all the napoleonic managers who had turned him blin down hut flut his steady and noton astonishing improvement la Is shown by the following official table k year 0 CI I 1 IL hn 1113 80 8 0 W L I 1 ave 1807 14 95 3 34 24 16 72 6 5 8 1908 28 IG M N 60 10 14 11 1908 37 2 85 95 12 24 1910 41 SM 96 74 24 14 88 38 63 23 16 5 1912 40 US T 72 2 30 10 am 7 0 total for or 6 years yeara 1297 ito 84 43 A big likable follow fellow to ie johnson Joh naon a rawboned raw boned product of the prairie farms thore to la nothing very speedy abort about him except his hie pitching otherwise hb la is slow elow RB no law ile he moves slow cats slow blow and oven even runs hla his motor car in an out butof of mani nor lie ile saves eaves all his hie energy for the diamond i after seeing johnson shoot the ball at the plate you wonder the poet was inspired to s ong bong 1 you wonder at the dazed bats men isyou it you cant see it you cant lilt it 1 1 m automatic pistol haa da second cond aimi DASE nalla DALLS MOW 22 afta second rifle esin 52 2000 ft a sed second limited afta 8 IQ |