Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-08-02
sP0RTIFG NEWS.
Johnson the Sprinter and KehOe's
Antagonist.

/ beat the worlds record in this
city a lie Y weeks ago, the St. Louis
/ Sporting Nems of recent date has
the following:
H. M. johnson, Americas cham
pion Splinter, is lying at deaths
door at GLASS Vail y, al. John
son departed for that place about
nine days ago to run II local man
a 100 yard race. The case OF
| johnson is one OF the most pc
culiar known in the sporting
world. His father was commander
of the port of New York, and be-
fore that he was in command of
several steamers plying between
New York and hina. These po-
sitions gave him an opportunity
to educate his children well, and
Harry in this respect was given
good start in life. A few years
ago Harry married an estiinable
young lady of New Orleans, ana
after his marriage he went to work
writing up sporting events for the
newspapers. For a long while he
was the atheletic editor of the
Sporting Neus, and he often spoke
of the days he passed in this Of
fee as the most pleasant in his
life. Pretty soon. however, the
old sprinting fever. took hold OF
him and he announced his inten-
ton of going OFT on the road.
One day he babe the writer good
bye saying he was going TO San
Francisco and from there to Aus
tralia He would not return, he
said, unit he had won worlds
handicap Then he would come
home WITH fortune in his pocket
Leaving his wife and little ones
in this city, Harry started for the
West. Each day he wrote affec-
Tomato letters to his wife and al
ways kept her supplied with ready
funds. Pretty soon, however, the
letters ceased to come, and the
wife began to fear that somsthing
had happened to her husband
Then letter came in strange
hand. 1t told how the powerful
form OF the worlds greatest ath-
elete was DO ed with fever and
OF how death seemed near at
hand Then another letter came,
It was in Harry's handwri ing,
but the scraggy letters told of
the weak and nervous hand that
had written it. He wrote: 81 am
better and will leave for home as
soon as I am strong enough.
Sprinting has hold OF me with a
grip as stIong as that which drink
has on the drunkard. But il God
spares me to you and the little
ones, I will from this on forever
cut loose from professional sprint
ing" All who know johnson will
II be glad to read Of his resolution.
As an athelete the world has
never known a greater, and but
for the fact thac he has allied him
self with that with that class
known as professional sprinters"
his friends would today be legion
and he would have the respect
and esteem of every honorable
athelete in America.
The Post too says:
A sport who arrived today from
Virginia City, Nevada states that
big Kehoe, the bruiser, who jun
ped into prominence by defeating
Jim Fell, is matched to fight IA
heavy weight named Mccormack
at an early date.
Mccormack is said to eail from
San francisco, and as he is keep
ing quiet and avoidi & observa-
ton as much as possible the Com
stockers are suspicious that some
world beat0r is being rung in on
: them under an assumed name.
1t is not very improbable that
the sports Of the silver region are
right, and the question arises,
who can Mccormack be? With
Joe McAuliffn in ENGLAND and Hoe