Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-04
Sport Copies # Gle -four

more than year, and he has been
an expensive luxury on the payroll.
O.
The Federal League must have
been bluffing their way through that
very important secret meeting over
n New York. Instead Of defying or
ganized baseball they were ready
with open arms, to be taken into the
fold. This fact IS becoming more
evident every day. Garry Hermann
makes it very plain by announcing
that Charley Weeghman, the Chicago
angel for the Feds, has secured an
option on the Chicago Cubs. This
deal would mean $50 long, Windy
City" There are other deals on, too,
we are told, which Will make 'regu-
lars" out of OUTLAWS" Soon, per-
haps, the whole plain truth will come
to light. Baseball men are no bigger
fools than other business men. When
the shoe pinches they will call In the
shoemaker. The Feds are done.
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Walter Johnson is a large fellow,
and he will never be accused of being
small in any way, especially If Fielder
Jones' the manager of the st. Louis
Feds, is telling the story. Jones was
after johnson, but he didn't get him,
because Walter not only came high,
but he was too exacting In his busi-
ness arrangements. He not only
wanted more than $4,000 q year,
but he insisted on receiving the first
years salary In advance and demand
ing that his next two years pay be
put IN trust for him. Jones couldn't
see 1t that way, so Johnson Will now
be in position to talk business with
Clark Griffith, the boss of the WASH
ington Club, of which johnson is the
star twirler. AS clever as Johnson is,
he may get the worst of 1t. He has
turned down the Washington Clubs
offer of $4,000 a year and he has
passed up Jones's even more liberal
offer. If the Feds and the regulars
come together johnson may find him.
self working for paltry salary Of
900 a year. Such are the hardships
Of the ball player.
O.
Princeton seems to be winning favor
among the experts and not few are
predicting that the Tigers will give
Harvard the battle of her life," and
that they Will make it miserable for
Yale. That the Crimson team is a
good one 1t cannot well be denied,
Notwithstanding that it didn't do as
well against Michigan as expected.
The Crimson victory over the VOL
ve11nes was not decisive by any
and, In fact, all in all, Michi-
gan played much the better game.
She was hampered in several ways,
and surely luck was never with her.
Harvard, of course, was not out in
her full strength and Harvard men
say Harvard didn't require her best
TO UedL Luo WOiNCIiHSS. LII luo ii5Ht
of the peculiar victory 1t is to be pre-
sumed that the Crimson did her best
in every way and played the best
men in the best condition at her COM
mand. She may beat Princeton in a
minute, but she didn't shine SO brill
liantly against Michigan.
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The Wolverines did so we'll in the
game against the Crimson that the
Michigan students are elated over the
result to such an extent they are
really celebrating the occasion. Ac-
cording to a dispatch from Ann Ar
Dor, the home of the Wolverines, OF
the 5,033 student population of the
university all but thirty-three were
on hand at the railroad station to
greet the returning football team
after its defeat at Cambridge. The
lonely thirty-three absentees, the dis
patch says, were not lacking in the
proper college spirit. Thirty-two Of
them were in the university hospital
and the other man Is g. helpless Grip
pie. Every man on the team was
cheered separately and called upon
for a speech, as was Hurry UP"
Yost, the coach. A casual onlooker
would have thought the Michigan
eleven had just returned from a
glorious victory instead of defeat.
The showing of the Wolverines was a
big surprise, and Michigan is accept
ing it as victory.
O.
Princeton Is working hard for the
Harvard game, and she feels that she
has a good chance. She has been
careful and still she has shown a
whole lot of football. The defeat OF
Dartmouth was evidence OF her
ability, though she did make a battle
at the end. The showing Williams