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Show WALTER JOHNSON A PERFECT PITCHER M "SALTER JOHNSON Is today a perfect pitcher." said one of the veteran umpires of the American league recently In discussing the Washington marvel. "If you could have a hurler made to order you couldn't design oh is who would be a bit moro. effective than the big Swede, whoso name Is a terror to tho best batsmen In the country. "Johnson Isn't using his terrlflc speed much nowadays. In fact, he seldom cuts ono loose with all his might unless un-less he happens to be In a tight place and opposed to a hitler who 's weak on the last ones. He throws a lot of fast balls with a break on them still. but they are not of the old armor j K.fl piercing type that made him famous, j FjH "At one tlmo he had to depend al- V'l most entirely on the velocity of his K ball nnd his control to make 1dm for- j lj midable, but now ho has acquired a good ! I curvo and a nice change of pac& For L some time ho has been experimenting lHI with a slow balL and now he has got lll command of It. Think of the deadly IlH cJllclency of a slow one coming after ' Hrj a ball tliat has been burned through Ijll going a mllo a mlnutol I JH "Walter's curve Is not the widest In I H the world, but It Is a quick one, and ' '.H the break is plenty large enough to ao- i ;H compllsh the desired purpose His con- ll trol. which always has been gopd. I seems to be Improving. H "On top of all this, ho has a splendid H disposition for a pitcher. Nothing . ;)H seems to rattlo blm. Some pitchers .H get up in the air If they think an um- MH plre has mlescd a strlko In a plncb, mI but "Walter Just smiles, knowing that ( 'lH he can lay tho next one over If he haa : H to. Ho Is by all odds tho greatest . M pitcher In the game today, and to my 1 mind there never lived one who was : 1 any better. As nearly as any human 1LH being con hope to achieve perfection Hl In any lino of endeavor. Johnson has : achieved It as a pitcher." Bl |