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Show WALTER JOHNSON IS FAITHFUL TWIRLER I rjvt"3 wasnington management, rlay-ors rlay-ors and fans emphatically deny the report that Pitcher Walter Johnson stipulated when he signed up lost spring for throe years that he was not to be used as an emergency twlrler. The rumor shows how llttlo outsiders know about Walter Johnson or the Inside In-side workings of tho Washington baseball base-ball club. In tho first place, Johnson never in hln life refused to go In the box as an emergency twirler. He novor demanded demand-ed that the "Washington club should refrain re-frain from using him in the role of a relief slant artist. That isn't Walter Johnson. , As 'a matter of fact, Johnson idwavs stood ready to go in and pitch any time ho wa ordered. It Is safe to cay that there nover was a more willing worker in either the American or National league than Johnson. Ho la alwavs ready and willing will-ing to go on the slab. The principal, reasop why Walter Johnson was not used oftener last summer sum-mer as an emergency pitcher wa be cause Jim McAIoer did not consider tH him as good a man to stop a batting ll rally as Tom Hughes or ono of the H others. In other words, Johnson is not IH at his best when It comes to relief M twirling. Atleaat Jim McAlcer alwav c H thought bo. Others have thought dlf- 1 ferentiy. jH Not long ago appeared a story stat- jH lng that Johnson and Doc White, of the jH Chicago White Sox, had entered into a H compact throe years ago to pitch noth- H lng but straight balls to each othor. H This Is absolutely untruo and doubtloss H originated, from a game two years ago. H when White and Johnson agreed" to H pitch nothing but straight balls, to each The game ia question was during the fag end of tho season, and both the H Chicago and "Washington managers VM knew of tho arrangement. Neither IH twirler kept his word after tho first few IH innlngr, for Johnson nearly knocked the underpinning away from one of H tho White- Sox inflelders. whllo Doo H Whlto'hlmselC drove ono back, at John- jH son so. fast that It nearly knocked the H big fellow Into a heap. IH |