Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-21

race in Frisco a week ago the Call
of that city says:
THE five nights holler cycle racing
was brought to a finish when Hans
Ohrt won the final rush of two miles,
and when the handicaps were an
nounced it was found that Ohrt had
won with his handicap of twenty Sec
onds, his corrected time being 10
minutes 80 seconds. Ralph WEIGH.
with twenty seconds, was second. and
Pop Rhodes, the scratch man. was
third, just one-ffth of a second be-
hind Welch. Ohrt won with ease and
by margin that showed he could
have allowed the field up TO three and
half minutes handicap instead of
twenty seconds"
Hans will probably race at the
Newark Velodrome next season. He
raced at Salt Lake last season. and
wanted TO come here, but the field of
amateurs was so large and so CLASSY
that he thought better of it and went
back home to Frisco when the game
broke UP at Salt Lake.
@
Young Ohrt is likely to come m
here next season, when the going will
be much easier. BY that time all the
leading amateurs will be turned pro-
fessional and it win be pretty SON
Tor any real good simon-pure thar
happens to drop in town. California
mas given us some very good cyclists.
Floyd MacFarland, the brains of tbe
bike game, came from the Golden
Gate, and of late years Percy Law
renee, Willie Hanley and Ernest
Ohrt, all Californians, have come
here and made good
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By the action of Walter Johnson.
the great pitcher, in repudiating his
contract the Federal League has been
dealt a soporifc blow. 1t might be
called a knockout, only the Feds are
still in the ring. johnson, by jump
mig to the outlaws and then jump
ing back to the Washington Club,
hasn't shown any wonderful amount
of either common sense or Judgment.
The money, it is said. won him over
to the Feds, and influence, it is
claimed, has won him back to the
regulars" Simply as an opinion, it
seems to US as il Johnson would be
looked upon more as a sport and as
a man if ne stuck to the Feds. He
! comes back in the discredited, and
/ perhaps some of his teammates will
not care to do their best when he is
in the box. No matter how much
money Johnson was worth to or
ganized baseball beforehand he isn't
worth anywhere near the $3.50
which is said to be his salary now
/ 1t is claimed, though, that johnson is
i! getting more than S12,50O, but that
! these figures are announced for
"obvious reasons" The Feds were to
have paid johnson $4,000 a year for
two years, with bonus of $4,000, sc
it sounds a little fishy to say that
Johnson has signed and repudiatet
that contract for a $4,000 job. Politi.
cal influence was brought to bear II
is said, to win johnson back. He
married congressman daughter.
6
Joe McGinnity, in his day. was &;
great pitcher, but he knows little o.
nothing about conducting a baseball
club. When he first came to Newarl
he was popular, but he lost friends
and admirers every day by his rowd.
actions on the diamond. He assume,
to manage the Newark team, when il
reality the best thing that could hav
happened would be to have beer
managed himself. He had good bal
club when he struck town, but h
ruined it. He also had a good man
ager in Harry Wolverton, but h
couldn't agree with him. McGinnit.
was his own worst enemy. He mean
well, but he didn't know He woul
have been a huge success in Newarl
if he had not been such a roughsteI
BY his actions at the ball park h
drove the people away
9
Z McGinnity now has baseball inter
ests in Tacoma. Wash. where h
also has been a failure. 4 story fror
there says that Joe is going to OF
eanize a stock company MeGinnit
says he will secure his own releas
from Venice. of the Coast League
and return to take his turn in tn