Show s P 0 R Tor 0 L 0 G GY Y YBY BY W D RISHEL The death of or Thomas Thoma Evans of or the Logan AglEs as a result of or injuries received in a football game is the tir t fatality In the history of ot the great co cot lege sport port in this state Whenever hen ever w an n accident of or this kind occurs in ay community and the records show that many man are killed while playing time tile game ame there is always a great cry cr raised against the th game g me by Ii those who do not like football It is not the in intention Intention Of Qt the writer to attempt to tu claim football is more brutal than any auy other sports neither Is If it the writers intention to defend the tho sport nut but v give a few fe W Sold MId facts ta ts On Im t tal accidents and tIme the th chances clances that vire ire taken in the game me as far as Utah k concerned The Thc writer has hils a complete record or orthe orthe If the important football contests in tIns state and nd finds that the University or Utah since the introduction of or a In 1900 has played pla 1 games gaUtt The Th A C since 1902 has played pla ed thir t In games the Salt I Lake JAlko ako Nigh High since has hOB played pla ed fiftysix games game The Ogden High since 1897 ha hat played two games and All Hal fal Hallows fallows ai lows since 1900 fort e games es en estimated e This makes a total of or 25 games gaInes for which admissions have been charged Each school mentioned played pla ed the thc game in a haphazard sort of ot r a 11 way wa for years before a record o or 01 theta them were kept and one may ma add fifty tUh games to this t ls list and it will not t be e too many man for tor the thc fire fhe leading football schools of the state In addition to the schools mentioned the National Guard and Y M 11 C A first and second teams the Collegiate Institute Granite Murray and Park City High schools the O 0 S L U Fort For Duglas Provo Crimsons of Logan Lo an nearly every eto one of tho the grade schools of Salt Lake together t with teams team made mae up of or different unattached play pta players ers era in this city It and anti Ogden have due dur durIng dueing lurIng Ing the history of football played hun bun hundreds of ot games In placing the thc num number number ber br of or these games ames at time the same ume figure ngUe as played l by b the five leading schools It would give gin u a total of games of or col college co lege legu football that have been played in Utah since the early Earl 90 Without counting the substitutes two men or boys bo s took part in each one of these games gam or 01 a total or men and boys The regulation time of a game is two ut ute halves s hut but as some of the games are for lor or a shorter time we will wUl say sa that each game was one hour in length The above estimate Is certainly a fair one ona anti anil by b no means too large targe and an It shows shown that men and boys have taken part for one hour in one of tn most InOt strenuous sports known during a It ap p period of ot fifteen years and the net re rc result suit sult In fatalities is one death You may ma draw your our own conclusions as n to the brutality of modern football John Wille Heard From John Wille Wilie me the fighter and wrestler dodged the various officers with war wants for his arrest long I ls r week to get in the ring and beat Jim Stewart In a go at Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia phia It Is ii too bad this fellow Wile Wille me did dill not adopt the plan of playing on the square In the fight and antl wrestling game iame The Time Wille who made Mike like k quit In Salt Lake could defeat all of or the tho th heavyweights hayw i of ot today toda and do H it with aith ease easl Wille was offered the first with Lemon Bill Squires anti and what easy picking it would woul 1 hate hae been heen Wille Wilie could have hoye won and tray trav traveled tra down llon the line Jint until today he would be the acknowledged Jre champion of r the tile world but Johns long ton suit was catching suckers and double crossing them for side bets He lie will be remembered remembered bored as a faker when hen it might t just justas as well welt have been a champion How About This Team Thirteen members of f the Cincinnati baseball team left last Monday for tor Cuba where they the will play pla baseball this winter with Cuban teams Garry Gam Herrmann president of or the Cincinnati Baseball club and also president of tile Ule National commission just suspended a bunch of or players pla ers from the time Washington ashington and Milwaukee Baseball clubs for r playing against teams not under the National agreement ngn ement Wonder onder If President dent d of or the National comm commis commission aba sion will now proceed to fine and sus ros pend the thc players pla ers belonging to President President dent Herrmann of the Cincinnati clUb for playing pla games outside of protection rotc tion Kid McCoys Little Game One eastern sporting writer in sIzIng up the return of Kid McCoy to the ring and thid his numerous announcements since that fight says sa s sIt It 11 lias has been a case of On again oft off ona again a ln with Kid McCoy past week The Time Kid met Jim Jhn Stewart in New Xe er York in what might be bo termed terme 1 a 4 trial bout but his showing was not what would enthuse his admirers h l so lJ the Kid decided to retire for Cor good Then Harry Harn Pollock told the Kid that hl hi eat eaL th tb iI time ri he l had had to train i and the Kid ai Im Immediately In mediately announced that he would not retire On top of that came more mor criticisms about the time bout and McCoy l CoV again announced that he was out of It it for all time From reports of the fight there th c is no flO doubt that McCoy has gone back very verr much flinch and he will w probably be wise now to retire for good and take takeno taKeno takeno no chances chanets against some of or the good gooc ones like or Ketchell The Kid Kia was great in his day but his Ids day has nas 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