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Show NEW IMPETUS FOR AMATEUR SPORT-AFTERMATH SPORT-AFTERMATH OF RECENT FIGHTS. At last there are some bright streaks in the Western horizon for Utah athletics, and from the action of the faculty of the State University in appointing ap-pointing a thoroughly competent advisory board in athletics, it is apparent that the state will no longer trail the athletic caravan in the inter-mountain inter-mountain states. The failure in the past of the University authorities au-thorities to pay adequate attention to this important import-ant division of collegiate training has caused local athletes to be looked upon in adjoining states as a mere jest and resulted in repeated humiliating - defeats. The appointment of the present board, consisting consist-ing of such experienced men as D. A. Callahan, Dr. Plummer, R. C. Channing, Frank Anderson and Prof. Eaton, means that the University in the future will have some real football and some real outdoor sports generally. The board has an uphill up-hill job, as it will have to start with the primer in athletics, but they have determined to have a splendid football organization this fall, and will hire for this .purpose the best available coach in the East. The outlook is certanly very agreeable to local lovers of college sports. rt (v ( The defeat of Jerry McCarthy by Otto Sieloff will teach the pugilist many things that should be of great use to him in the future. He will learn that battles are not won by acting purely on the defensive and depending solely upon a husky frame and possible lucky swat. McCarthy has nover met a real fighter before, and every time he made an effort to mix matters with the lighter lad from Chicago, he met a bunch of wallops from all directions and hastened back to his defensive crouch. The local man is far from being a clever fighter, and he has never shown that he has a dope-maker in either arm. t5 to The ending of the Abe Attell-Forbes fight was difficult to believe among followers of the career of the two fighters. Attell has never before shown that he had a punch hard enough to break a match. The theory is that he must have started that swing which ended Forbes about thirty seconds sec-onds before it landed. |