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Show staff B 1 1 Sporting Life. H h 1 Coach Holmes is not culpable in the least for H is! r determining not to play with the eleven of the BBBal Tim 74 B&WB i " Agricultural College again during the present H Jj year. The local team after their defeat byithe H M V giants of the North, were treated in a manner H jjjj 1 which was a disgrace to Logan and a sad reflec- H i'j tion( on the sportsmanlike qualities which a visit- bV If Su ng team would naturally expect from a neighbor- BaBai 'tfffi ingcity. The footballplayers of Logan apparently H j"i'f have forgotten the uniformally courteous treat- H h M ment they received from thejrival team whenever H t they visited Salt Lake, and their ignorance and HH L II boorishness to a vanquished foe is treated here BBBB BBWH I i more in commiseration than in anger. i BBBa HH f! jit jh jjt B J A But Coach Holmes is not free from blame. In H I'j J the first place, it was unwise to match his athletes H ; u against a ,team which was vastly superior to the H ' locals in weight. In the second place, he has de- H II monstrated that he is utterly unfit for the position H 1 , he holds as coach for the leading, college of the H' ' I state. He has had many oportunities to show his H ; ability to properly model and coach a football H '; f team, and in eachjinstance he has been hopelessly B:' ' disappointing. And added to this his statement H ', that his team will not again compete with the H f Agricultural College athletes is disheartening and HH i j a confession of t his entire inefficiency. Had he H j, ? placed his refusal to meet them again on the H l ground that they were too heavy to contest with H (ij! the locals, the story would have been different, H ' I but the sole source of his refusal appears to be H Jj ; I in the fact that he has met his master in the un- Bal 1 1 heard of coach of the Agricultural team. He says H Jjl the story will be different next year. The .story H iil should be different and the University should be HH 1 1 it trained by a different and competent coach. bbYbYAY tj S (? & iv B I ' I Jerry McCarthy has been . matched for two H ; fights to come off in the near future, and is in B ' ; training for the events. He will meet Jack Dean i"" ' j of San Francisco early in November at Ogden, I and on the 16th of November he will negotiate to a conclusion with Jack Donnelly at Pocatello. A H ! still more important match has been arranged B i with Philadelphia Tommy Ryan, who has agreed Bl t I : , , , I to meet the local welterweight in Salt Lake early in December. ' j tJ O 11 The failure of Aurelia Herrera to score a victory vic-tory over Long at Vancouver in their recent fight was a source of (surprise to the followers of the ringed sport in Butte and Salt Lake. The general gen-eral impression was that he would dispose of Long with comparative ease, but the result J of the recent argument shows that the Mexican has either gone back in form or that he was not the fighter he was generally supposed to be among his local admirers. W c!& & Still there is every probability now that Herrera Her-rera will be given a chance with Hanlon at San Francisco in the near future. The Hayes Valley Athletic Club has been making every endeavor to schedule a match between ) Hanlon and Young Corbett, but Corbett's propositions to the club have have been so unsatisfactory that it is now practically certain that the bout will not come ,off. Manager Levy of the club says that as there appears ap-pears no impending possibility of a fistic contact con-tact between, Hanlon and the champion, about the best card for the near future would be a mill between Hanlon and the Mexican. Hanlon is entirely en-tirely willing that such an arrangement should be made, ,and says that as soon as it appears probable that no match can be arranged with Corbett, Cor-bett, he will cover Herrera's forfeit of $250, recently re-cently placed with W. W. Naughton of the Examiner Ex-aminer for a match. (Jv C Jack Clifford is forward with a pathetic argument argu-ment in relation ,to his recent decisive defeat by Kid Fredericks. Jack says this time that he failed to go into training. When he was defeated by Herrera he announced that he had been .doped. Of course the dope story was silly, but it is a far better excuse than the one he is at . present offering. of-fering. People soon tire of pugilists who are more prolific in excuses than in victories, and this latest lat-est absurd, statement of the former Salt Lake favorite fav-orite is merely smiled at. A pugilist who confesses con-fesses that he goes into the ring entirely unfitted for battle, through his own negligence, is entitled to, but meagre consideration from his former ad- mirers, or anyone else who believes in honest and true-blue sportsmanship. lv v? 5 The coming fight next month between Fitz-simmons Fitz-simmons and Gardner will bo the ,big card in the sporting world. It is probable that the odds will favor Fitz by an appreciable majority, but there are many close scrutinizers of , the sport who believe be-lieve that Gardner, by reason of his youth and strength and agility will be able to defeat the old campaigner. They are also, of the opinion that Fitz is not the fighter he was a few years ago and the fact that he will have to reduce his weight to such, a great extent will lessen his chances for a victory over the conqueror of Root. |