Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JOHNSON...
Died. John L. Perry, 82, grandfather of Walter Perry Johnson, famed Washington baseball pitcher, at Santa Monica, Calif., the day prior to Mr. Johnson's great 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh nine (see Page 26, SPORT...
...came Rice. Oof! Strike one. . . . Sugg! Strike two. . . .Pitcher Meadows smiled, wound up to pitch strike three; Rice swung, fans shrieked seeing the ball streak far enough from the plate to bring in Harris and Bluege. Pittsburgh also came up to bat in its regular turn, but Walter Johnson was pitching. In 1913 he could pitch a ball so fast that the eye could not follow it. Twelve years have done his arm small harm; nor could nine innings. He struck out ten men, allowed only five hits. Score: Washington 4, Pittsburgh...
Fourth Game. The glamor faded a little. No band. Less bunting. More the atmosphere of an ordinary ball game. Johnson, refreshed, allowed only three clean hits, passed only two men (one in the first inning when he was cold and one in the ninth when he was tired). Pitcher Yde (Pittsburgh) gave journalists a chance to make puns about Yde and seek. Goose Goslin hit him for a home run, his second in two days; so did Joe Harris. Bucky Harris, called out after a slide to the plate in the seventh inning, screamed like a terrified horse. Umpire Moriarity...
...Conning Tower". Disturbed by the statement from Mayor Hylan that he is to ornament his already colored career with an attempt at writing, the genial "colyumist" warns the writing profession to stand by its guns--or pens. No writer can at will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle of those who from East and West, from North and South respond to the pull of the printed...