104 ' , EVENING LEDGER-PHIDAUBIjFHIA, TgUBSDAY, JULY m 1917 , WALTER JOHNSON IS AFTER A NEW RECORD, BUT IS HEADED IN TlJE WRONG DIRECTIQ r ' t I It .-J fl . '-S' SALTER JOHNSON FACES WORST I .YEAR IN HIS LONG CAREER; WILL BE LUCKY IF HE WINS TWENTY GAMES Washington's Smoke Ball King Has Won 8 and Lost 11 Battles This Year and Shows No Im provement Holds Strike-out Record rIE old story of tho pitcher Kolng to tlio well onco too often enn bo Bprunu on the Innocent bystanders these dnys nfter a .thorough Investigation of Walter Johnson's twirling record for A. D. 1917. Tho IiIb fellow has pitched tho worst ball of his career this season and has nn excellent chnnco to equal his record of 1909, when he won thirteen and lost twenty-five games. However, there Is llttlo danger of his turning In a card llko that, but ho will hnvo to step some If ho comes through with twenty victories this season. This Is very sad work for n person of "Walter's reputation and It look's ns If tho well-known and efficient pitcher were making too many trips to tho plate. Johnson has not been available more than onco a week thus far nnd If ho continues this stunt throughout tho season, he cannot be walloped oftcner than onco every threo weeks to keep beyond the doadllno which divides the classy performers and tho tramps. In other words, ho cannot ldso more than four games between now nnd tho first of October and havo a twenty-gamo year. Isn't It strange how tho mighty stub their toes and stumblb Into tho stecrngo class? Not that Johnson Is headed that way or oven thinking of traveling In that direction; but tho great twirler no longer Is tho wonder f tho age either with the Jans or the ball players. Tho batters now step up and soak tho ball, whereas a pouplo of years ago they were shy and kept ono foot at tho plato nnd tho other In the water bucket. In those days. It was quite n feat to get even a foul off his snioko ball. Judging from his nblllty, a season with only twent;.; victories for him is a disgrace. Even a season of twrnty-flvo victories would bo a scandal and lcs3 than, thirty triumphs Is a disappointment. So It can bo seen that tho Smoko Ball king Is up against It and It Is certain that he will havo to regard tho season of 1917 as his ono bad campaign. WOIISE that that. Walter will bo forced to suffer during tho long winter months. Ho must expect tho experts to discover this fall that ho Is going, back nnd devote tho entire cold spell to telling anxious readers that tho orid Is near. More Hits Made Off Walter Than Any Other Pitcher in League AS A matter of cold fact. Johnson has been nicked more often than nny other Xj. twirler on tho circuit. A total of ICO safo swipes havo been registered against his twisters, and Dauss, of Detroit, comes next with 140. There is no comparison between the two, but tho figures speak for themselves. In addition to that, Wnltor holds the record for games lost this season. Ho has suffered 11 defeats and won 8 games. Bob Groom Is tho other heavy loser In tho league, having lost a total of 10. But "Waiter has tho strike-out record, with 102 to his credit, with Babo Buth running a close second. Tho Washington club has been notoriously fcoble on tho Tally Trail, nnd It Is well known that his playmates make it difficult for Johnson to win. Frequently they havo neglected to score at all whllo ho was on tho slab, and that made It im posslblo to cop tho combat. In tho meantime, tho other sldo umaasert a healthy total, and on several occasions It required from 7 to 9 runs to win. Twice Wash ington has needed 7 runs to win when tho star was pitching. Twice they needed half a dozen runs to get tho money nnd flvo times this year tho Griffs needed Jive tallies to put over a victory. In other words, In more than one-half of tho games It has been necessary for his club's offenso to perform at nearly doublo Its normal speed in order to bag tho verdict. Threo of Johnson's eight victories wero won on these stormy occasions. Two of them Involved Detroit, nnd another tlmo .'at St. Louis Washington won 9 to G after Walter had been knocked out of tho box. Last Sunday ho was credited with a victory over the White Sox when he went into .tho box In the ninth Inning nnd held the team runless after his predecessor had ' been removed. On Tuesday ho lost an eleven-Inning battle to Chicago, which makes hla total eleven for tho year. w B are loath to bellevo thit Johnson Is through as a pitcher or that he has started on the down grade. His hard luck this year is duo to a change In his pitching stylo. Thero was a tlmo when Walter needed nothing but his fast ball to subduo the foe, but of Into tho speed has deserted him. Now H.ls necessary to uso a few curves nnd work the batter, and as soon as Johnson gets tho system ho will bo Just ns effcctlvo as of old. Important Series in American League Starts Today in Chicago WITH a lead of 26 points separating themfrom tho nearest contender, tho White Sox will battle the Red Sox In the first game of the most Important. series In tho American League this afternoon. Barry's battlers havo been up and down for the last month and refuse to bo left Irf tVo'lurch. They expect to do some damago to tho prides of Chicago and will start YKfJr'dlrty work on the first day. The hard luck of the past has been forgotten nndthey nro now looking Into tho future. Completely Ignoring tho fact that 'more than onco they havo been more than 60 points In tho renr, tho champions havo simply refused to lot go. Every tlmo tho pitchers go to the bad and it appeared to bo only a question of how much Charley Comlskey would charge for tho world's -series seats, thero would bo n sudden and startling reversal of form and tho gap between the leaders narrowed. It will bo remembered that tho White Sox got nn even break when they met tho Red Hose In Boston. Now that they aro playing on their homo grounds and havo a nice lead In the race, tho players should go Into tho series with moro confidence. Anyway, the rough treatment handed to Boston in tho St, Louis series doesn't speak well Jor the scoring ability of Barry's men. In the other lengue, tho Giants nro leading tho Phils by tho comfortable margin Of 104 potnts and appear, to havo hit a winning streak. Tho Cubs havo been mnn handled day after day, which strengthened New York's percentage In tho won and lost column. The Phils Increased their lead over Pt. Louis, winning from Cin cinnati whllo tho Cards were being walloped In Brooklyn. WORLD'S series dopestcrs already are on tho Job selecting tho Giants and tho White Sox as contenders for tho title In October. These teams were the favorites In the winter league and It looks ns If they would hook up after tho season ends. Connie's Crowd in Cleveland Today r? MR. MACK during his stay In Cleveland runs across a team that plays ball the way Detroit Is going at the present time, ho will lcavo the West much better pleased than he ls'at the present moment. Critics who watched tho second num ber of tho even break double bill In Tigertown yesterday unanimously agree that no club In any game this season has made so many mental mistakes .is tho Bengals. Maclt's team also was pretty bad yesterday, but that probably was only be cause evil associations corrupt good manners. And tho Athletics looked good by comparison with their rivals. It was tho only really bad exhibition that tho Macklea gavo in Ave Jousts staged in Detroit. They played pretty good ball thero, though thoy won only two of tho five. But they havo an even break on tho season with the Jennings outfit. Joo Bush has Detroit puzzled. He has started a couple of games against the Tigers, and has been knocked out with celerity nnd dlsratch, onco In ono round and onco in three. Sent In to replaco Johnson, with no chance to win nnd a chance to lose, In yesterday's second bill, ho proceeded to mow down tho Felines. But ho was staggering at the finish, and would havo been beaten had not Harper, who thinks he has to run every time nny ono shows h'm that thero Is another baso between himself and homo, kicked away a great eighth-Inning chance. When tho game ended Detroit had tho run that would tlo on second nnd the one that would win on flrBt, Tho final count was 4 to 3. . "WTET Joseph, as a general thing, stars In the western cities, Chances sre I- J- that his failures against Detroit are due to the fact that he is a speed artist. The men who simply blow them up thero are the boys who baffle the Bengals. Seibold's Passes Proved Costly THOSE last two games In Detroit were ragged ones. Selbold would havo had a chance In the opener, which tho Tigers took, 4. to 1, had he not beon wild at the start, two runs scoring off him on a pair of passes, a mental error by Schang, a wild pitch and a foolish slnglo. With Boland steady, that was enough. In the second contest Bill James was wild and easy to hit, and beforo he was taken out, at the end of the third, tho Mackmen had the decision. Johnson did not look any too good, and, after he passed two men with nono out In the fourth, he was der rlcked. i- - -, - ' fc rnilOUGJI the Athletics havo "not made any wondorful (.print in the JL West,-their record has .been a good one, and much better than any-one had expected. Mack is satisfied and believes that his team will go well from no'w on.- Detroit .writer, all speak In praise of It; nnd predicted that, with Its. hitting strength, Jt will break oven In the Cleveland games. , Mayer and Klllcfer Combine to Stop Toncy iTT1RSKINB,MATKR atoned for the pummellng handed hjm on the. occasion of tho J-'- last visit of the Cincinnati Reds to Broad and Huntingdon streets.' It will be recalled at that time the Mattymeh drove Ersklne from tho mound" and accounted Jor nine runs in the one Inning before tho fire was put out. Yesterday It was a dif ferent Ersklno who labored. He was' hit freely, but In the tight places was inr Vincible. All the credit cannot be heaped upon tho frail moundsman, for his bat tery mate. Bill Klllefer, played a very important role in the triumph. The star catcher had two singles out of three official trips to the plate, and his safeties fllrectly were responsible fpr all three runs. The stopping of Fred Toney was another noteworthy performance. Previous to his downfall at the hands of Mayer, the giant Red heaver had turned in five wins in his last five starts and led major league twlrlers in victories with sixteen. He was not hit hard, the Moranmen col-Uctlr-r only six, but two pf these were the timely ones of Klllefer and they, turned MOVIE OF THE BOSS WRITING ON TYPEWRITER AFTER THE STENOG. GOES HOME TRI6S IHSBUTINC L6TT6K. 3H6GT SIX TiNCi Berone it is right Sice op awd w vnMCMT M fOKriJ AT SOMCTHiiOG HOPIlOG IT OJ'Lt OO Somotmimg That wjk.l '.Solus OMeTMiio6 PECKS AT K"STS AMD NAMES DOLL SiM IMSTSAD 0 A "4 I I If wraaJswssssssissm., v . T. PiBBoM 0&T4 Caught ANO ATTeNPT To R-vUIMD SA.MS Discovers, hc m&nt 5PACOO nm umes. QJE& OP Looks, for a dhjous To SET MACHIME ' FOR SIW6L6 SPACitje. AMD DGClDOS Xo STICK lb LO06 -KAMt GOLF ASSOCIATION WILL HOLD TWO TOURNAMENTS IN ONE OVER ARONIMINK COURSE NEXT WEEK Class Tournament and Midsummer Handicap Staged "for Thursday and Large Field of Players Is Expected IF 1 nr xmy of golfers who break nn eighty onco or twice during a lifetime, and whose game runs somewhere between 80 and 90, rarely If ever below tho first figuro nnd too often r.hovo tho second, there is a tournament at tho Arnnimlnk Country Club, beginning next Thursday, which Is of the greatest Interest. If you happen to havo a handicap nnywhero ironi scratch to eighteen there Is nnother event nt the same course The first toiirna ment. for tho want of a better name, Is called tho Class Tournament, and Is for men whopo handicaps range from eleven strokes upward. Tho second tournament is tho annual mmsummer iinnim-ap, mm n . enc-dnv affair. It is a two-ringed circus, ns t.ie great majority of the men eligible to plav in the ono can play In the other. Tho nuMlfvIng score for the class tournament Is .list turred In for the midsummer han dicap. Killing Trto Golf Wrds "With One Club It Is tho first tlmo that tho two tourna ments were ever he.d together. Last year the Class Tournament attracted nearly a hundred entries, while there was nn unusu nlly small field for the Midsummer event So the fJolf Association of Philadelphia thought they would kill two golf birds with ono shot this year nnd hold both tourna ments tho same weok. Up until last year thero was no oppor tunity for tho higher rated golfers to have a tournament all to themselves. You must have a handicap of ten strokes or less to play for the city championship or tho (Jelst cup, whllo If you havo not a handicap of eight strokes or less, you need not come around to tho l,ynnewood Hall cup tourna ment. When you begin to count up the golfers In nny club, you will find that there aro thirty to fifty men with handicaps of eleven strokes or higher to every one with ten strokes or less. The writer of this comment perHtiaded the golf officials to hold tho tournament last year so as to give this great and growing class of golfers a chance. Tho higher rated player. If ho happens to quality In ono of the bigger events, has as much chaneo ns tho proverbial snowball, nnd If he gets into nnother nnd lower flight tho chances nre that a lower rated player qualifies with a higher score than usual nnd, of course, ho trims the other men In It. Golfers Must Stay in Own Class There nro threo slxteens In tho class tour nament next week. The golfers nro divided Into three classes. Class A. with handicaps of eleven to fourteen strokes ; Clatis B, fif teen to eighteen strokes, and Class C, nine teen strokes and upward. Class A men must qualify in their class, but thero is nothing to prevent the two other classes from mak ing the first flight. But tho Class Ii men cannot play In Class ('. In this way every class Is protected nnd the fight In each flight rosolves Itself into a struggle between players who nre evenly matched. Tho cup hunter has no chance at all. There will bo no prizes awarded In either event, but some sort of a medal will be given. Each golfer who enters the class tournament will he assessed $2 nnd those In the midsummer Jl Tho entlro proceeds will go to tho war fund of the !olf Asso ciation of Philadelphia. This is the first time since the Aronl mlnk course Vas opened fle years ago thnt a tournament will be held over it. The nma. teur record Is, (l, made last week by Nor man Maxwell, but, needlers to pay, tho rec ord Will bo In no danger next week. While the course Is not yet completed, so far as the bunkering Is concerned, Aronlmlnk of fers some splendid golf shots. The course Is laid out over a rolling country, and as Donald Boss was the last golf-course archi tect to Improve the original links, this Is surety of excellent holes. The chief objection- to the course Is the way the course Is laid out. as tho easier holes come first and (he last nine nre not only stirrer, hut there Is considerable climbing, so that the hard holes are encountered when a player SUITS Hf-M TO ORDER JL.M. Keducri) jnm $30, S mni S0 PETER M0RAN & CO. "JffiS&F MTJI i MAItKET. KNTBANCK ON 13TI1 S. E. COU. 0TII AND AHCII STS, Urket St. tftore Open Kverx ETroIni Is beginning to tire. But thero are so many fine features about the course that this Is not particularly notlceablo except to tho old codgers, who tire easily. Largest Putting Green in Country Ono of tho holes- has probably tho largest green In tho country, nnd Incidentally It Is one of tho finest holes nt Aronlmlnk. The drive Is over a ridge nnd both n pulled and tllced shot is badly punished. Then comes a pitch either from tho top of a hill or from the foot of It, depending whether the tee shot Is short or long, to tho green which runs In trco plateaus. And between the fairway nnd tho green there Is a decided dip Into n valley. Tho hole Is a possible four or It can bo readily turned Into a very easy seven or eight The Island hole Is nnother very excellent holo nnd consists of a drive and nn Iron and l very similar in lay-out to tho first of the famous Ditches holes nt the Phlladel phla Cricket Club. Thero are two new holes taking tho places of tho old second nnd third, but unfortutmtely neither Is yet In condition for play. No golfer should miss this opportunity to play over what will be eventually one of the very best courses In tho Philadelphia district. Both fairways and greens are In beautiful condi tion and tho rough Is not too rQURh and what moro can a golfer ask of o'Jurse. . n VIC SAIER NOW A PIRATE; CINCINNATI WAIVES CLAIM PITTSBURGH, July 19. With thoClncin natl National League club having, waived its claim to tho services of Via Saler.'the former Chicago National first baseman has become the property of the Pittsburgh club. A'S IN CLEVELAND TODAY ARE IDLE Game Wa's Played on Sun day, June 17 Will Open Tomorrow ATTEND GRAND CIRCUIT CLnVKIiAND, O.. July 19. The Athletics will not open here against the Indians until tomorrow. They originally wero scheduled to start the series with Leo Kohl's clan today, but ns tho game had been ndvanced and played on Sunday. Juno 17, the ball players and fans will get a chance to go to tho (Irand Circuit meet at North Randal, a suburb of this city. JOCKEY DUGAN, IMPOSTOR, QUITS NEW YORK HOSPITAL NEW YORK, July ID. Eddie Dugan. tho star Jockey, Is riding In Russia, and. there fore, Is unablo to be sick In this country. This explnlns why tho young man who posed ns Eddlo and who sought refuge in Ilellcvue Tuesday left hurriedly yesterday afternoon. After Wllllo Dugan missed Empire City to visit his "brother" and discovered the latter was a "phoney," tho Invalid departed In a rush. Klowers, fruit and wlres'for the sufferer kept tho clerks busy. When the latter heard of the fake they grew wrothy. That's another reason why "Eddie Dugan" took his illness to the outer world. FINAM'GRAW HEARING IN NEW YORK TOMORROW WALLOPING REDS POUNDING BALL HARDER THAN ANY OTHER CLUB) SINCE LAJUIE WAS IN HIS PRIMj Have Made More Hits and Runs Than Any 0th Ii Proving Big Aid to Heavy Sluggers Dy GRANTLAND RICE' Limerick of the Links A polfcr once shouted, "Good Heavens! Toddy 1 could wallop Chick Evans!" But the next day hc started, He quit, brolicn-iicartca, With nothing but sixes and , sevens. -( NEW YORK. July 19. National League officials and. sporting editors were notified today that tho third and last round of tho McOraw repudiation battlo will be staged tomorrow morning at National League headquarters. IF SOME one should coyly suggest that Cincinnati's embattled Iteds.had a more powerful attack than tho old Athletics or the old Cubs ho would probaHly bo hooted nut of Rooters' Row. Yet the cold, clnmmy. pallid, uncontro vertlblo figures todny show tho Reds nro rushing nlong with the heaviest wallop any ball club has shown since Cleveland ono venr showed up at mid-season with eight 3n0 hitters, led by Lajole In his prime. Some whllo back a heavy wave of depres sion settled over those who esteem tho wnllnp nbove nil other features of the game, for the rumor was nbroad that tho good old days of slug and swat were nbout ex tinct. Tho Reds tinder Mathewson havo revived tho nnclent glory of the gnmc. For when they started this week's onslaught they had no less than six regulars at .300 or better ono of tho most amazing batting records of" modern play. Here were the marks early In the week Clarke, catcher .330. Roush, outfielder .347. tlrlfilth, outfielder .314. Neale, outfielder .306. Chase, Inflejder .302. (3roh. Inflelder .300, Most mnnngers nro fairly well satisfied when they havo ono .300 outfielder dally ing on tho assignment. Those who havo two produce three rous ing cheers at stii'.cd Intervals. It Is only once In a decade that a manager has threo outfielders over .300. The Yanks havo been looking for ono for tho last ten years. The Red Assault Brief mention has been mndo before of the Red attnek. But It-deserves more In this ago of effete batting, when tho average ball player is a.-ound .245 or .E50. Last year the Reds had but ono .300 glow worm, tho same being Hal Chase. Roush, (irlltlth, Neale nnd (Jroh wero nil under .270. Ciarko was under .240. But tho punch has como upon tho Red company with a compact rush. Today they have made moro hits nnd scored more runs than nny other ball club In either league. They nro well out beyond tho fllants and Tigers, tho next two most powerful clubs. They hnvo a club batting averngo of .2G7, up to tho mark of the old Mackmen and be yond the drlvo of the old Cubs. And with this nssault they have In Fred Toney tho leading winner of tho year, on his way to thirty victories. If Toncy runs up this output hc will bo the first Red pitcher to get this far In thirty years. Tho power of the Reds Is shown In tho fact that of their last nine games against the Giants they havo won six nnd lost three nnd they have done the bulk of it by mauling the mlssllo, pounding the pill, swat ting tho sphere or hitting the baseball, Just ns you may care to have It put. The Ouimet Status Francis Oulmct Is now amateur champion of the West. In tho East ho Is the most Isolated golfer tho game has ever known. He refuses to play as n professional ho Is Ineligible to play as an amateur. So whllo his homo Is nlong the Atlantic sea board his tournament range must bo west of the Alleghenles. The South stands with tho West on this proposition, as most of tho leading southern golf .clubs aro mem bers of tho W. G. A. Somo day Ouimet may be tossed Into the peculiar situation of playing upon a course nlong the border line botween the two sections where for the first nine holes ho will be an amateur and for the last nine a professional Our sportive situation Is In a beautiful and exquisite tangle when a R.S.A. rArlnln c-1?a Is . . ....... nun.., .a ull mnaieur ammh. ,..-T nnn mi a ,).. .; -" urns ",.'"""""'' nmong 50,000 11 1 when lead ne termi. 'l,.M'l nre amateurs after doing certain thlnS..?1 make leading golfers profession j,rt 000 nnd a nttinra nnrl v. ....... ...... n a,, , ran mv Ithn. . '. piTnl professionals, The II. R. K. Returns Frank Baker, of New YnrV ..j . fought his way into the 300 class ..ti.??S week for the first tlmo slnco he urriu3l or swapped the bat for tho ho. kiTft 1914. Last season Baker . ...A0. .reach .280. nnd for the first t ?? i tho present campaign ho was sadly oil 5 .tla tint n tl.A ... '' flUt Of, uvuo. .u.. no in u luniur went around iinfll tho onco eminent home-run king had iSt-1 cated for good, tho Trappo terror u.Sl hark fop his own In th t., ... ,w!l ho has batted well over 400 nn ..& mark of his best years nnd a trifle bereSil With his old confidence ti MJ,I will now undoubtedly finish among the tleAF I With Baker and Mclnnls now over tkS ark. It remains for Eddie Collins to cent' up me gap. just at present Eddie Is hi around .274, but hc still has th. ...J,' ahead, and force of habit should do the rti YALE'S ATHLETIC DATES CANCELLED' No Varsity Football to Be Played by Eli Next Fall i BIG WAR IS THE REASON VLTU.' WAVTIV. fnnn .. ,lnl 10.,..?1 football schedule for tho coming fill W been canceled. Tho usual list of jtmei was arrangou inm January ana mere m been somo delay In formally wrltlnr ii Yale's rivals and asking, In view of the vi situation, whether the cames eannnt t given up. Only two of Yale's opponent i-rinccion anu imrvaru, navo tauen Wautr action. CORNELL WILL CONTINUE INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS 1 n NEW YORK, July 19. Intercolletttl athletics will be resumed at Cornell VtS verslty next fall with the approval of ttf tacuity, it was announced irom luiaatv day. It TEN who haven't read a boi' I VI ing column since Sutlirtn whipped Ktlrain hire been made fight fans again by the great $20,000 match at Shlbe Park, July 25, between Benny Leonard and Johnny KilWe. Two world's champion! in one ring make it tho biggeit ht card offered anywhere. Be one of the 20,000 at the icrsp. It will make ring hittory. 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