The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 1, 1926, Page 6

WALT JOHNSON FOLLOWS HIS EARLY STYLE Veteran Washington Mounds- man’s Style of Delivery Has Changed Little July 1. us Nw York, twentieth y moundsman, Walter Johnson still] pitches with little apy: nt -cffort and is regarded by many fans as most gra ul hurler in the leagues. The veteran’ yh (P) Washington the big! f windy ed since he ¥: passing 4 have taken their toll from his speed and endurance. Declines To Stay “Buried” There was atime when his fast nil] shot by the plate at such a clip; catchers barely could hold it. Old/ timers tell the story of how Johnson! once pitched thy mes in as many} d winning each by a, shut-out. | ort writers repeatedly have pur- ied him, especially in 1920, 1 1 and 1923, when he suffered a rever-| sal in form. But the “Old Masver"| came back in 1924 to win twent; three games to seven defeats, only | again to read his retirement was near | when he lost two out of his thre: games in the world series. and, games. him doing mound duty in good form. rery Not Fanciful | ‘ly, ‘The first ten or fifteen minutes | he stands about ten feet within the | regulatio nee between t and plate. Then he steps back and begins shooting them across more in earnest. In the box, there is nothin ful about his deliv Reaiistcircle swing, the: ball| ing the glove high over his head, then it shoots downward and far to} the back, coming around in a full, quick sweep at the waist as wrist snaps out the ball. As the swing is starting backward, the “Big Train” slightly and his body sways a little | in the same direction and then comes forward with the sweep. One scurce- | ly has tine to realize the bali has| left his hand before it reaches the! plate, Changes When Men On Baves When men are on the bases, he - Naturally discards his brief windup. | He li s above the head,| y touching the glove. nce at the runners, his arms give a jerk upward and come down to the waist, where the bull momentarily is hidden in the glove. Then ‘begins the wwing far -to tne! back before sweeping to the front. Johnson always has been noted for| his coolness under fire and those who! have followed him say he is even more so now. He watches the field- ets earefully and when in a particu- larly tight place sometimes stops to motion a player to another position.| His only indication of tension is pat-| ting and scraping the mound with his} feet. Years ago he formed a habit of muking his lunch off ice cream on his pitehing Gave He: sll ‘do He still does, | | SHAKEUPIN | MAJOR LEAGUE STARTS THINGS New faces are appearing daily with the major league baseball clubs in their efforts to overtake or keep “down their foes. doe Bush now is a Pirate: Pitts- burgh hopes for better ching from him than Washington got. Jimmy Johnston has made his first appear- ance in a Giant uniform as a pinch hitter. Neis has been sent tu Bul- falo by the Braves and the Giaats ¢ gent Cote, this year’s Holyer&s jin to Toled i ‘aylor,- Washington’s outfielder from Buffalo, hit a home run und two Bil sin his first appearance with - the Senutors yesterday. Goose Gos: lin made a homer and three single So the Red Sox were beaten 8 to 5. Enabling the Macks to beat the New York ikees, 5 to 4, Jim Poole, got a homer in the sixth and in the doubled with the bases filied. urgeon and Joe Sewell led a slugging attack that gave Cleveland! an 11 to 3 victory over Chicago, each j tering a double and two singles. |. Wells, serving for Detroit, dis- | ht St. Louis hits carefully ron 4 to 1. fteen innings were required for w York Giants to down the’ Braves, 7 to 6, Fred Lind- sttom hit a homer, which tied the in tne thirteenth. He started ‘final innifg rally with a single. klyn when the Dodgers de- Philadelphia, 11 to 9, Brook- 17 safeties and the Phillies ur of them were home runs, Herman, of Brooklyn and two relay ind one by Wrightstone, vided a double header permitting the Car-: the pirates tol montaat behind Luce 3 ins ug 4 Ad uperior eee i recent *) the | Cuyler joined the Smo! Igoing like a house afire ever since. | Cincinnati MAY GRAB MAX’S TITLE paceanwt | i al the men’s doubles in the- Wind don lawn tennis tournament .by feating Randolph Lycett and N, W. Austin, 7-5 the finals in the women’s doubles by Ss 7 a ee RS lous alsae, S vane ln AFTER ONLY TWo YEARS IN THE MAJORS a GIVE A THOUGHT TO This Boy's Poss One of the greates is Hazen ‘ ungsters iki” Cuy! y Town club In his first regular season Cuyk s his left foot | a tot, all things considered, Last year he so led his league in scoring with 144 runs. He a ing out triples, too. But for his famous team-mate, Care; ction of topping the National seasons. He finished second wouldn’t be surprising if the youn: the veteran this campaign. + ——_—_———____—__—_° | Yesterday’s Games | o-—_________—-# NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game R H E 0 ve, Picinich; and Hartnett. Chicago Luque Milstead, and Huntzin, Second Game R Cincinnati 4 4 Lucas “and Picinich; and Gonz: i E 8 1.0 7 1 Meadows St. Louis 4 Pittsburgh .. *. Hail and” O'F; “C6 inni ienewich, Mogrid; Burnes, Scott and Florence. R 9 n i aie Baecht, ¥ rnell, Henline, Jonnard; Ebrhardt and Hargr AMERICAN LEAGUE . New York hiladelphia _ Jones, Brax I 16 Wi 1 Knight and arnes, Mc Philadelphia Washington . Boston ... Morrell and Rue zer, Russell, Zahn and Stoke R H Chicago ... - 3 10 Cleveland . IGILITIE: to come into the big leagues ler, famous Pittsburgh ou! late in the 1923 chase. He’s been ler hit over .350. Pretty good for in topped the. .350 mark He was best in smash- Cuyler would have the added wheel in base-stealing in his first to Carey both times. And it gster tukes the honor away from Lyons, Steeng MeCurdy; Levsen Detroit St. Louis . Wells and Woodall; 1 8 1 Zachary, Bal- lou and Dixon, Hargrave. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Milwa Minn Jonn. | Harr’ | Byler, 1 Wilson, Gowdy, rd and MeMenemy; Hollingsworth and St. Paul .... Kansas City . eae Johnson and Hoffman; Dumovich and Shinault, Indianapol Columbus Wisner, Biemiller, and Bird. Har tley; Sommers, Zumbro, Faeth| I ville Toledo . Callop Okluhon a City 6. MALLORY ELIMINATED (P). former Sls champion, today was eliminated by orita Lili de Alvarez of Spain in i finals of the women’s singles Wimbledon jubilee tourna- The se “REACHES. INALS Wimbledon, England, July 1.) — incent Richards, and Howard K sey, Americans, reached the final of St. Joseph 1; the ment. ACE APIECE feating Mrs. Geraldine id Mis’ Clarke 6-2, 6-2 Boxing Brings More Money Than Bull Fighting Barcelona, July 1—A)—Boxing, after only a few yeurs’ stern chase, hi overtaken bull- fighting in the favor of Catalonians. The recent fight for. the Bibs heavyweight champlonship in which pane Uczudun, Tiger of — the nnes, defeated Erminio Spalla of drew a gate of 380,000 pesctas, re than double the highest amount er take in at a bull fight in the same arena, Although ringside seats for the bout cost eighty pesetas, four times the amount usually charged for bull fights, the attendance reached more 31,000. The arena, which or- ccommodates 26,000 had never been filled to capacity for a bull fight. National Open _ Open Pairings to Be Left to Chance}! Columbus, July 1. which usually furnish an item of interest in the national open golf tournament, will be left entirely to chance this year. Qualifiers will take off from the first tee as their names are drawn from the hat. Heretofore, there hab been a few seleeted pairings so that some of the great stars would go out together. The rough at Scioto Coun- try club, scene of the meet, is ad- mittedly’ a tough course for any golfei ‘It is difficult to get “threes.” There is not a weak short hole on the course. Nos. 14 and 17 are hard enough to have caused the ictment but they are unfai four” holes, in which is said to lie the real strength or weakness of a course, present troubles too. Only two of the ten holes with par four are of such length that a re: sonably expert player could be ex- Beamish “A picture? All hurry,” him off Fort Lauderdale, Florida. fish clinging like a black spot to the tarpon’ 's side. hen “snap” went the? line: camera, ight, ‘but just one. said this ‘allver ‘king in fish language to the angler who hooked And. make it snappy—I'm in a e little sucker “Snap!” went the “Me too!” cried FEDERAL “LISTENING POST” TO SEEK OUT FAULTY BROADCASTING STATIONS Chicago, July 1—An $18,000 Fadio ts can accomplish, soon ign in the Chicago area. iver, most of which has igned by E. A. Beane, sup- of radio for the Ninth dis- , will be used as a “listening post” in checking the faults of trans- mitting station It will give the operator in ten seconds information that has required fifteen minutes of patent checking to ‘accomplish heretofore Has Three Receivers he outfit contains three separate of one set for wise on the amateur bands with a wavelength range of from 10 to 200 meters. The broad- cast set will tune fram 200 to 600 meters, while the third receiver has 2 range of 250 to 24,000 meters. All three sets are capable of spanning the country, and will even go be- yond. Four Steps of Frequency Mr. Beane’s set oonsists of four steps of tuned radio frequency with a detector, to which can be added three steps of audio frequency amé plification, or eight tubes. An: es- pecially designed oscillation control that of the grid. Each radio fre- quency stage is shielded. and has an amplification factor of fifteen per tube as compared to six in the aver- age tuned radio frequency set, In- cluding only the‘detector, the panel length of the set is, thitty inche: Three instruments to datermine if the transmitter is strayed off. its wavelength, to measure the field strength or power of the broadcaster and to check up o) lation, iave been included, in addition to humerous wave-meters and. os tors, und other apparatus used in a radio supervisor's “lis! “Measures” The Music Probably the most unusual of the trio is the “modulation. checker.” It not only measures and photographs the music sent out but gives the ‘op- erator a vital clew to what is wrong with a sta "s modulation. ‘it even determines if a singer or player is too close to the microphone. The field strength measuring ap- paratus will show the exact power sent out by the broadcast station. It is selfcalibrated. 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