Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — GREATEST PITCHER ON EARTH [ARTICLE]

GREATEST PITCHER ON EARTH

Lady Funeral Director of Dead Letter Office Sends Post Card to Walter Perry Johnson.

Uncle Sam, serving in the capacity of arbitrator on behalf of American fandom, the other day was called upon to decide “who is the greatest pitcher in latter day baseball?” There was received in the Chicago post office the other day a postal card bearing the following inscription: “To the Greatest Pitcher on Earth.” Chicago had been nonplussed by the problem, as a cursory examination of the records of the Cubs, Sox, and Chifeds naturally would indicate. The post card was sent to the dead letter office, where one of the lady funeral directors, like a good rooter for the Nationals, promptly forwarded the card to Walter Perry Johnson. “Smokeball Walter” received the card and has filed it in among the other acquisitions of his remarkable career, which Include bank stock, railway bonds and gilt-edgg mortgages.