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Show WALTER JOHNSON IS NOT THROUGH - Bueky Harris Satisfied Barney Bar-ney Still Has Stuff. Walter Johnson, veteran pitcher ot the majors. Is discouraged at hla slow start this year and mora than once has wondered If the end la at band. When he fulled to halt the Yankees In New York he seemed disconsolate, for he appeared to have as much stuff In that game as he ever had, though not quite so much smoke. Bucky Harris does not agree with the theory offered by the sharps that Johnson Is singing his swan song and plans to use his veteran pitcher occasionally occa-sionally during the summer and often In the games of the fall. "If the rare Is close and we are op In the fight," declared the boss of the Nationals, "you will see Johnson In there bearing the brunt of the pitching, pitch-ing, for the weather at that time of the year la just suited to him. He may also be called to wipe np the close games when an experienced coo) pitcher is needed If some of the younger dingers blow (award the end of the game. "Johnson can't wori- as often as be used to and his poor tfrrt this year Walter Johnson. was due to his long lay-off with broken ankle. In the game against the Yanks recently he flashed a lot of stuff, lie will react to his normal condition as the season advances and will be ready by the time the pennant tight Is on If we are In need of his services." Bennle Tate affrees with Ilarrln that Johnson Is not through. "Think of It," said Tate, "Walter fanned seven, Including Uuth and Gehrig In succession In one Inning, Lazzerl and Collins In another nd then Meusel and I.azzerl, That shows he had something." "There never has been a player who reflected greater credit on baseball Mian Walter Johnson," President Ban Johnson of the American league said. "In his 20 years In major league bnse-ball, bnse-ball, he never has had an argument with an umpire and has never been put out of a bail game." |