Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-06

The Berlin six-day race is proving
a very fast one, and the men are
! ahead of all previous records. This
information came by cable this morn
ing to the Evening Star, and In the
dispatch it also said that only eight
teams area now on even terms for the
lead. The cable states that Moran,
desperate effort to gain a lap at about
II o'clock this morning, but they
were not successful. owing to q bad
spill. The crown prince attended the
races yesterday and there was much
sprinting during his stay.
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AS all readers of the Evening Star
know, Leon Hourlier did not race
Champion Frank Kramer last Sunday
at the Velodrome OLIVER. Hourlier
was scheduled to meet Kramer in a
sprint match, which called for the
best two out OF three heats, but in
making the match Marcel Durand.
the manager of the track, figured
without Hourlier. 1t seems that Du-
rand and Hourlier have been on the
outs for some time, but Durand didn't
think a little thing like that would
interfere with Hourlier meeting Kra-
mer so he billed the race, only to dis
cover that Hourlier would not come
to time.
Newark bike fans were no doubt
surprised when they read in the Mon
day Evening Star that Kramer had
the fans were not the only ones.
Others were so sure that Hourlier
would race Kramer and that Kramer
would beat Hourlier that 1t was SO
printed in the early editions of a local
paper. Later on, after getting the re-
liable information from the Evening
Star, the correction was made, and
the name of Japize was substituted
for that of Hourlier. But the bike
fans now know why Hourlier didn't
meet Kramer, and they also know
where to get reliable information.
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The Newark baseball club may have
to forego the pleasure of having John
Hummel play first base here the COM
ing season, and II so we will have to
put it up to the New York Yankees.
Just when everything had been nice
ly arranged for Hummel to slip over
here from Brooklyn and protect the
initial bag of the Tigers up pops the
waiver question and it is discovered
that Frank Chance, manager of the
Yankees, would like to have Hummel
himself. This New York interference
comes as a hard blow, for with Hum
mel on first base the Newark team
would be fine and dandy. OF course,
there is still chance that silent
john will eventually come to us,
for it is doubtful if Charley Ebbets,
of the Brooklyn club, will let him go
to the Yankees. Ebbets will just
about keep Hummel around Brook
Ign until the time comes when New
York will be willing to waive. That
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Yankees will surely want to send a
few of their "rookies" to the Roches-
ter club, which surely is in need of
much help. Then 1t will come to a
case of you waive ON my players I'll
waive on yours, which is generally
the way those things end.
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Perhaps it isn't the Yankees who
really want Hummel. although they
could use him nicely. Maybe it is
the delicate hand of John Camel.
manager of Rochester, who is respon-
sble for the hold-up. CAMEL, be 1t
known, is always on the job and he
rarely loses trick to help his team.
Just as soon as one season is on the
wane CAMEL is out preparing for the
season to come, and for that reason
he is always well up in the race. The
Rochester team at present is in need
of help. The Feds have been awfully
unkind to the Hustlers. But that is
no reason why Newark should be
made to suffer We want Hummel.
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Ebbets. jr., the president of the
i Tigers, will make a fight for him.
If the Yankees desire John for their
own use he may eventually 60 to
them, but it isn't likely that the
| Junior Ebbets will stand for Hum
mel going to Rochester through the
| New York Americans route.
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With Hummel at first base, the
Tigers would be stronger in the in
field than they We're last year. With
all due credit to Harry Swacina as a
player, he was rather peevish in
many ways. Hummel is a better
hitter, better general, and he can
play the first bag just about as good
as Swacina. He would be the right
man for the right place, and it is toe
bad II we must lose, We will say
this, though: If the New York Ameri-
cans want Hummel for themselves
they are entitled to him. The play
er, no doubt, would prefer to remain
up in the big Show" and that much
consolation is coming to him. This