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Show HfUj Sporting Life. Hjf I Tho Denver University gladiators will bump Hjl 1 against the local University eleven this after- Hl noon and the result will show whether Coach HjjJ Holmes has been able to demonstrate any of the Hf ' boasted improvement in his athletic timber. Since !jj! ' their crushing defeat by the men. from the North, jjj local lovers of the sport have not shown any"great 1 1 J confidence in a marked irourovement under ifif i ' Holmes' tutelage. Expert coaching is the whole Kl w narrative in football, and it is to bo feared that B!f nothing sensational can be expected of the Var- H fh I sity until a good engineer of a football team is H: ; substituted for Holmes. Still the men on the M 1 East Bench are practicing assiduously and are de- M 'h termined to make a strong flgl t against the vls- H, t-M itors. After all, the game this afternoon may not M It! be devoid of meritorious playing by the ill- Bj i i coached home eleven. ; f & & j -The recent failure of the Stanford lads to score B 1 1 j i oyer the University of Nevada was a sad disap- Hfl r( polntment to the Stanford enthusiasts and the Hh J followers of football generally over on the coast. ''' ' Criticisms of the game indicate that the Stanford Hj men were painfully slow in their formations, and Hi . j that with a speedier team against them they Hi 4 would have looked about as fast as a set of camels HI'p on a skating rink. The result of the contest has f h given renewed confidence to the University of H I I California team. H; 1e Hi-' i? U i SJ Herrera is not to fight Eddie Hanlon after all, M at least not for some time to come. The coast M sports failed to enthuse over the prospective p! match, as they weie universally anxious to have j Young Corbett test Hanlon's metal. So after much U parleying and delay, Manager Morris Levy of the -l!j Hayes Valley Club succeeded in having articles HJf ' I signed between Hanlon and the champion for a Hj , J fight to take place some time in December. These H! t two athletes are easily the masters in their class, HI Wei an no moro attractive card for the coast sports HI II II could have been arranged. Fights among the lit- Bfj!f H tie men are always more interesting than heavy- weight battles, and this championship fight will be watched with a great deal more gusto than tho coming Fltzsimmons-Gardner mill. The champion will probably be favored slightly in the betting, but -Hanlon is a great favorite among Californians, and many of them believe that there will be a new featherweight champion when the battle is over. V This has probably been the greatest season in the history of racing in the way of the quick succession of new turf records. But in the trotting trot-ting and pacing class Lou Dillon and Dan Patch will probably remain supreme to the end of the season, if the general opinion of turfmen is to be taken as, a guide. As soon as a seemingly new champion invades the field, these two phenomenal speeders promptly lower the colors of the new rival. The proposed match race between the hopple hop-ple horse, Prince Alert, and the champion pacer would be a grand exhibition. i&& to George Siler, in a recent comment on Joe Grim, says the human punching bag recovered from the hard knocks administered to him by Fitz-simmons Fitz-simmons quicker than was thought for, and Monday Mon-day night he acted the role of general receiver for champion Joe Gans. The latter tried all the knock-out drops he had, but tney had no more effect on the tough Italian than had those of Fitz, "Walcott and other hard wallopers. Grim, as in all his battles against the knock-out artists, paid his respects to the canvas times without number, but never lingered loMg enough to be counted out. A match between Grim and Munroe, who lays claim to having upset Champion Jeffries, is now in order. If the ex-miner can hit hard enough to upset Jeffries a trick that no other-fighter other-fighter has done he surely ought to keep the human punching bag down for the count of ten. A party of Salt Lakers we-e out duck hunting hunt-ing a few days ago about thirty miles from Brig-ham Brig-ham City. With them was a lawyer from tho Bast about as big as the Tabernacle. During the day nervous agitation visited one of the lawyer's motors; the pain waxed and grew and eventually the groaning jurist announced that ho would leave for Ogden and have the tooth dethroned from his facial map. One of the Salt Lakers suggested that he telephone tele-phone to Brigham City, where, he stated, several sev-eral renowned dentists resided. The lawyer eventually reached him over the wire and asked him if he would make the trip and bring a set of thirty-four horsepower forceps. The dentist hesitated. He said there would be great expense, the hiring of the rig, the amputation am-putation of the tooth, the time wasted, etc. "Come ahead," groaned the lawyer. "I will pay for the rig and give you $20." Brigham City gasped. "Yes, sir," shouted the dentist, "I'm on the way right now." |