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Show Sporting Life. , With the coming of the bloom of May and the wafting of the cool zephyrs of the month cf flowers, the Salt Lake fans have also come voicily into evidence. They have been treated to some very superior sports during the past few days the inter-collegiate field meet and some of the most exciting baseball that ever churned up the local grand stand and bleachers. 5w fjfr iw The national game was played in far better form on last Saturday and Sunday than was ever expected by the most punctilious fan this early in the season, and the auspicious showing made by the dual league of Ogden and Salt Lake is prophetic of a very lively and satisfactory season. sea-son. Both games were won after a hard struggle, strug-gle, and in each case the result was in doubt un-, un-, til the last of the ball tossers had fanned the breezes three vigorous times with futile activity. The game on last Sunday between Zion and the junction city was as good an exhibition from the bleachers' standpoint as was ever enacted here. t5 v t? Of course there are none of the old world-twisters world-twisters in the present aggregations, and with the exception of Hausen no such baseball flirts as Buck Weaver and Casey and Gimlin and New-meyer New-meyer have yet appeared this season on the local diamond. But the men are playing exceedingly good ball and some very good timber will develop out of the present personnel of the teams before the end of the season. A few judicious releases in both teams would help 'considerably, but that cannot be done at once, and of course there will be some valuable additions to the talent before the end of the season. & Jensen is pitching a very daughty game for Ogden, and young Camp is doing some very handsome slab work for the locals. The fans, with the long heads, are also expecting some good displays dis-plays from Nash before the present season has progressed very far. For Fetters, the local twirler, there does not appear to be a particularly particu-larly brilliant future. Butler of the Salt Lake team has not done anything very astounding up to date, but he comes with a good record and his friends are confident that he will make a first-class first-class showing when he gets into proper form. The Foit ou ich are working out k good shape, and expect to take some of the prhe out of Salt Lake and Ogden before the passing of many days. Some other very good amateur leagues are in course of formation and before long some very stylographic exhibitions among the younger aspirants as-pirants for baseball fame will be witnessed. So after all the gloom occasioned by the failure fail-ure of Salt Lake and Ogden to break into tho Northwest League has passed from the local fans, and it is generally believed now that tho baseball exhibitions this year will be about as good as any which have been witnessed here during the past two or three years. The large attendance at tho games already played shows that the fans are ready to liberally patronize good baseball. 8 & $i The result of the McCarthy-Gibbs mill on Tuesday night was something of a surprise to the talent, who thought from his showing in the former for-mer mill that the colored boy would bo the victor. vic-tor. The Montana youth, however, showed great improvement, particularly in defense, and the plucky Irishman was wildly cheered when Gibbs' backer threw up the sponge in the eleventh round, after the colored pug had been very badly bad-ly battered. It is apparent that if McCarthy was possessed of a big finishing punch, he would develop de-velop into a walloper of considerable note. |