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"Big Train" to roll again.
Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: "Big Train" to roll again.
Additional Description: Germantown, MD, Sept. 13 [1938] Walter Johnson; Washington Senators' pitching star for two decades, scored another shutout yesterday when he defeated his opponent, James M. Mount, for the Republican nomination as County Commissioner for Montgomery County. The score was: Johnson 1,025 votes, Mount 40, Johnson is pictured as he warmed up that powerful right arm in preparation for the campaign he will wage for election. The former pitcher now runs a dairy farm here. [The dairy farm mentioned here is the site of Seneca Valley High School in Germantown.]
Submitted: June 19, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p311795
File Size: 0.193 Megabytes

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