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Show feSP?KT CHATTEfVff 1 y By AL VARDEN j) Ground was broken on the new Weber We-ber gymnasium last Thursday. When' completed the new institution will cost! $250,000 and will be one of the most up-to-the-minute in the western country. coun-try. The proposed baseball game between! the Weber Normal college and the Da-j vis county high school, scheduled fori last Friday, was called off on account! of the weather man. The game, how- over, will be played Tuesday at Kavs ville. Ilke, Yokel, world's middleweightl champion wrestler, will lock horns at1 Salt Lake Tuesday night In a finish1 match with Ira Deru. Dern Is a youngster young-ster but Yokel Is confident of tipping the new man. j Georges Carpeutler, heavyweight! champion of Europe, has received an' offer from a largo circus to go on a' tour at $200 bucks a day. Gee, whiz, the Frenchman is surely popular Jn this country. Dempsey on his stage; tour received but $6000 a week and in many cities his tour was unsuccessful unsuccess-ful in the way of gate receipts. i Ducky Jones is playing a star game, at the far corner for tho Tigers again' this season. Yep, the former Ogden star Js hitting like wild fire, also and is one of the mainstays of the Tiger aggregation. Hark Ye Sports Dempsey refuses to perform for charity in one of the western cities, according to the latest dope Jack seemB to be losing his popularity pop-ularity fast in all parts of the country Utah Included. Ted Johnson, former Utah distanco runner, and for a number of vears the western champion, is now pushing n pen In the editorial sanctum of a Los Angeles newspaper. Ted will enter tho trials for the American team at Pasadena under the colors of the Los Angeles A. C. Ray Seymour, former world's cham- pion motorcycle rider, has departed for the Orient where he will entertain , the fans with air thrills. Seymour Is (now a full fledged air man and is rated rat-ed on the coast as one of America's best stunt flyers. He will Join Art Smith in Japan. Ouch! After paying a record price I for Babe Iluth, the Yankee owners 'have thus far failed to get what one would term first class service from the 'star. Ruth has faljcd to hit in six I games. Eut perhaps tho homo run Iking will hit his stride soon, ' The interclass track and field meet 'ol tho Ogden high school will be held postponed three times on account of Tuesday afternoon. Tho meet was I the weather conditions. I I Yea, Bo! Creed Haymond will han-i riicap the college sprinters in bothi 'events in the gala track and field meet1 here May S. In tho century Creed will donate the collegians and high echool 3tar8 five yards while In the furlong he will jot down a handicap of ten' yards. Ossie Smith, one of the best high' school sprinters in tho west, will face! Haymond In the century. Smith is ai ten second man and Creed will have to! step to defeat the East Sider. , Jack Johnson, former world's champion cham-pion heavyweight boxor, now in Mexico, Mexi-co, states that he can whip Jack Dempsey with his eyes blind folded. Wowle! But at that there are any number of fans who still believe that Jack can make Dempsey hear the birdies bird-ies chirp. 'Twill soon be tline for the rod and gun experts to awake and start on their annual rampage that of telling prize yarns. Tennis fans of Ogden are busy raising rais-ing funds for their new organization. The net game is as loving as ever no doubt and that live wires don't care who loves 40 or love all. |