Show JOHNSON IS GREAT PITCHER has add added d to his HI terrific speed ex c ellent control slow sall ball and quick breaking curve walter johnson Is today a perfect fact A pitcher said one ot of the veteran umpires of 0 the be Arner american ienn league recently in discussing the washington marvel it if you could havo have a hurler hu t I 1 r made to order you design on gnp who would bo be a bit more effect effective than the big biff swede whose name la as a terror t to 0 tho the best batsmen batsman in thu country johnson using hla his terrific speed peed much nowadays in fact he set seldom cuts ono one loose with all hla big might unless he happens to be la in a tight place and opposed to a hitter bitter who Is weak on tho the fast ones lie he throws a lot of fast balls with a break on them still but they are not of the old ar mor hercing type that made him famous at one time ho he had bad to depend almost entirely on the velocity of hla big ball and his control to make him formidable mi dable but now ho he has acquired a good curve and a nice change of pace vor for some time he be has ben been experimenting with a slow blow ball and now he has got command ot of it think ot at the deadly effi efficiency clency of a slow one coming after a ball that has been turned through a mils mile a minute walters curve Is not the widest in the world but it la Is a quick one tind and the break plenty large enough to ao ac rr 1 0 walter johnson com the desired purpose ills IHs control which always has been g good cod edema to be improving f on top of this he has a splendid disposition for a pitcher nothing seems to rattle him some pitchers get up bp in the air it they think an um alre has missed a strike in a pinch but walter just sint smiles les knowing that lie he can lay the next one over it if ho be 11 has Ls to lie ile is iff by all odds the greatest pitcher in the game today and to my mind thyre never lived one who was aej any better As near as aa any human being can hope to achieve in any line of endeavor johnson has achieved it as a pitcher |