Image 10 of Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.), March 5, 1928, (FINAL EDITION)
author: Anonymous
source date: 1928
availability: public_domain

16 PITCHERS SEEK TO FILL J ON GAP Bucky Harris Has Big Crew of Hurlers In Daily Battle Other Places Fought For By BRIAN BELL Associated Press Sports Writer TAMPA Fla March 5Although the baseball ghost of Walter John son stalks through the training camp of the Washington club there are 16 pitchers on hand all willing to be another Johnson By common consent of the powers that be on the club where Johnson Is more of an institution than a pitcher no one will be elected to fill the place Barney left permanently vacant when he went away to man age Newark As the work proceeds at the first Washington training camp in twen ty years in which the great Johnson has had no active part the club s preparing to pin its hopes on pitch ing despite the absence of the big fellow with the terrific fast one Ten of the double octette of pitch ers will start the season and Mana ger Harris and President Griffith hope to work out a combination in which supple young arms will get support from heads wise in basbeall Only two of the pitchers have passed their thirtieth birthday and one