Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-04-08 | Page 16 | Says M'Aleer Will Hold onto Johnson

SAYS M'ALEER WILL HOLD 0PJ01S0W Blaiikensliip Ridicules Idea of Washington Allowing Idaho Star to Get Away. Dispatches from Washington City Friday Fri-day told that Walter Johnson, promler twlrler of tho American league, will not piny with Washington again this summer owing to a dispute over salary i but Cliff Blankenshlp. manager of the Salt Lake colts In the Union league, Is of the opinion that. Jimmy McAlecr, manager of the Senators, will acquiesce to Johnson's John-son's demands for moro pay and retain him. The Washington dispatch said that news had been Unshed from the south that Johnson would not sign up for $fin00 a. year, holding out for $7500. and that McAleer had told him to quit, but Blank-enslilp, Blank-enslilp, old big brush star who obtained ob-tained Johnson for Washington, says that when tho season opens the former Idaho star will lie found in tho Washington Wash-ington lineup. Says Blankenshlp: "There isn't a chance that a few hundred hun-dred dollars would Induce. McAleer to part with Johnson. In tho first place. Johnson Is worlh every cent of $7500 to Washington, and In the second place, tho fans there would simply tear down the park If McAleer nppoarcd on tho field many times without this popular player. Johnson Is as popular a player as any In the American league, nnd Washington fans simply Idolize him."