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Show The great and glorious Utah State Fair has been with us and gone, but the aftermath of the races is still the chief topic of interest to the horsemen, and one or two match races may result during the next week. Messrs. Wells and Stone, the owners of the green pacer, Hobo, are far from satisfied at the easy manner in which Frank Wilson's Wil-son's Sarah Green put it all over the black flyer, and claim tney were "trimmed" both ways. A number of the local horsemen who had their coin up on Hobo are also sore and there is quite a bit of talk about clubbing in together and putting up enough backing to compel Wilson to give Hobo another match. Wilson, unfortunately, has too much money for the usual bunch, and says that 1000 is about the proper amount to start off with, and this amount makes the other owners look at one another dubiously. However, nothing definite will be done until after the return of the horsemen and their entries, who have all gone to the meets at Blackfoot and Boise, where the match may be pulled off at the latter city. Football goes off with a rush this week, games being booked for the University of Utah, Agricultural Agricul-tural College of Logan, National Guard, High School and All Hallows. The big contest of the week will be on Saturday, between the Aggies and the National Guard elevens. The last named bunch is made up of the former Y. M. C. A. team, who forsook the association during the week owing to a falling out with the new secretary, who seems to have an abnormal desire for what he terms "clean membership." He insisted that every man who played on the team must be a bona fide member of the association, and would be obliged to pay their own dues. In former years, at this and other institutions of the same kind, it has been the custom to furnish athletes with free, or athletic, memberships, until they have grown to expect that as a matter of course, as a slight appreciation of their ability and hard work. It certainly has been the case in this city for some time, but has now been declared off, under the new regime. This rather displeased the football men, and, as most of them were already members of the National Guard, they went over to that organization organi-zation and will play under that jiame in the future. They have already defeated the strong eleven of soldiers from Fort Douglas, by the overwhelming over-whelming score of 22 to 0, and have two games arranged with the Logan Aggies, and also contests con-tests with the University and High School. The material is there for a championship eleven, and, by constant work and good coaching, should trim everything in sight around these diggings. The game on Saturday will be played at Walker's field, commencing at 3:30 o'clock. The High School team sprung a surprise on the Aggies last week by holding the husky farmers down to a tie, neither side succeeding in crossing its opponent's oppo-nent's goal line. The High School was greatly outclassed in the matter of weight and strength, but over-confidence and sharp, snappy, nervy plajing gave them the best of the play. The big fellows carried the oval inside the flve-yard line but Qnce, and then they were held for downs by Coach Boyle's pets. This afternoon they hae a game with the University of Utah, and there is a pretty good chance of another sudden awakening awaken-ing among the lads over on the east bench. The game will be played on the new campus. All Hallows Hal-lows is also to make its first appearance on the gridiron this fall today, when the eleven will line up against the Collegiate Institute at Walker's. Neither of these teams has worked out in public yet, and many are the conjectures as to the.abil-Ky the.abil-Ky of each. There is nothing new in the baseball line with toe exception that during the next week the fans should know whether or not Salt Lake and Ogden are to be members of the Pacific Northwest League next year. Buck Weaver, who is nursing a sprained ankle at Butte, just at present, will regain re-gain in that part of the country and look after he local interests at the Helena meeting, with Jhe assistance of Attorney Clyde Shropshire. The hacking is ready at a day's notice in both the Utah cities, and their addition to the Northwest ague would mean great ball for the local fans. MHHHHHaaaaHBHHHHMHHHaH |