El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-28
Chicago Officials Still Long for johnson
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O'DayWiIl Likely Be Umpire Next Year
By DAMON RUNYON.

Jew YORK, Nov. 28.-Jack John
M son, the preferred stock of sew
= eral very enterprising syndi-
| Gates, is still just as much of fugitive
from justice so far as this country is
concerned as the day he Iiuttered away
/ from here
We received an inquiry recently as
to whether the case against him in
| Chicago mad been squared or wheth-
ef there IS any possibility Of it being
squared, and the Chicago authorities
answer no to each Interrogation. They
/ say they viii arrest Johnson if ne ever
gets within their legal reach.
That is why the much syndicated
champ Will have to pursue a devious
route if he goes to Mexico to fight
Jess Willard, although it Will be moth
ing to the devious route which will
nave TO be pursued by his promoters
Il they make any money out of the
Dattle after settling with Johnson, Vii
Ia and the bandits infesting Mexico.
Johnson viii 90 to South America
INST according to the present plan,
putting in some time filling vaudeville
engagements. He will then go to We
racruz by some steamer that avoids
american ports, and from Veracruz he
VIII be uundled overland to JuareZ.
Ihat is, il the fight is held in Mexico
at all. Jack Curiey claims his syndf-
cate has offers from Buenos Ayres,
ana II they are wise they viii accept
those offers.
About the only way the fight could
pc made to draw at Juarez would be
l0r willard to whip LangfOrd, or even
McEey. Then the sporting public
might regard him seriously. AS it is
now, he figures only as a mark against
the champion.
The Case of Hennery O,Day.
Hennery ODay, surly and unloved,
has lost another managerial job. 1t is
Lhely that he viii be with us again
I'eAI season IN an umpiratical capaci-
~, and, after ALL that seems to be the
JOB that was designed by nature for
Hennery O'Day. 1t seems much more
N Keeping with the general fitness Of
things to behold Hennery O'Day glow
ering through the meshes Of a mask
than to see him squatted in the re-
mote recesses Of the bench.
The world is agin Hennery as
The world is also frequently
agln Hennery as an umpirate, but
then the world is frequently agin all
umpirates, so that doesn't make much
difference. The world felt rather re-
seDtful when Hennery tried to remove
himself from the zone of public ex-
asperation by hiding himself under a
managerial busheL.
It's a queer thing about Hennerv as
a manager He did better with the
Cincinnati team than most of the
managers who had gone before him,
and certainly much better than the
who has come after him. BY
every right of fair play he was en-
titled to at least another year, but he
was dumped without ceremony. He
I'D fairly well with the Cubs. Maybe
ne should have done better, but the
zact remains that he did fairly well
Jlners might have done a lot worse
now many managers have you
known who have finished year in and
ear out deep IN the second division,
Win clubs that should have finished
better, but who seemed to have no
fCubIe hanging onto their jobs? How
many cases of that kind are there in
me big leagues today? There are sew
elal, but that is not the answer. The
answer is that the world is Just nat
lraly agin Hennery O'Day as a man
lger.
Dues to the Devil.
1t appears that the New Haven rail-
cad played us false last Saturday in
andllng the big crowd that went from
New York to the YaIe-Harvard game.
Z appears that the New Haven ham
lIed mat crowd mighty well, all things
Considered, whereas We had fondly an /
quite the reverse.
therefore, in view of all the acri- !
nCnlOus remarks we have made about /
ne New Haven, and all the bitter 1
thoughts we have thought about the /
New Haven, it is only fair to sneak /
ma think of the company along pleas |
mt hnes when it does something /
neritorious
BY. and large, a football crowd is !
,oout as inconsiderate and impatient |