Show P Weeks Week's Sport Gossip I By Walter D. D Bratz President Cal Ewing Ewin of the Pacific Coast league has either cither been heen misquoted i or h he has hns been bu hushed bushed bcd up in some somo mysterious mys I manner His IIi allowed ed announcement announce I ment that the Coast oa t lea cue would go to the fold of the outlaws has cau caused no end of stir all nfl over the tho country but since then nothing nothing- more moro has hns been heard h of the alleged decision to break away from organized baU ball The teams in the timo Coast Mst cagne aro are disgruntled because and johnon Johnson John john- son on failed to hrin bring the time outlaws into organized d ba baseball The fact that the California a state circuit harbors a 1 aist bit big it somewhat of an nn list of outlaws gives ts It Itis Itis Itis advantage nd o over or r tho timo Coast Const league is also advanced that the brand branti of 1 ballin ball ballin in the Co Coast aRt l league was much better that or organization was among the outlaws One great thin thing which ar argues in in favor fayOT of outlaw baseball on tho the coast is the success of the California t stale Plato tl league eague c. c It appears to have hayo attractions to offer its patrons CYr every overy now and thou then Los Angeles bad had Wa Waddell ell elland and is now no talking of getting Johnny Klin and Mike Donlin if they join oin the outlaws Ewin Ewing states that his Ins league o would become outlaw merely to tho the ox ox- I tent of picking up such players ers as ml arc oro dissatisfied with their io bs in in the bi bilea big 2 lea leagues ue Ho He claims th that t ho would not try to get et players under contract for thu tho season on The New cW York light fight fans fan arc aro still smacking their lips after tho timo recent OBrien O'Brien fi fight ht which has been the bet best in Gotham for man ninny many a day Incidentally Stanle Stanley Ketchel also de demonstrated dent dem 1 hi right to the title tWo of middle mid mid- dl dle weight champion Tho The battle will go o down own on record as asa asa a decision no-decision affair but hut if ever 11 It man Inan won on a fi fight ht Ketchel did U last Friday ni night bt 0 O'Brien's Brien 8 enabled lam Lim to make a showing during tho the early rounds but after that thit Ketchel's wallops wal naI lops Jops began to get et in their work worle and the tho tide tido turned It plainly showed that it will take a far faT stroD stronger cr man than theold tho the old arch fakir to stand up before the thc j 1 punches of Ketchel It was rumored ru-mored in Nc New Ken York before j the fight that OBrien O'Brien would spring an- an f of his bis famous famous or or rather infamous 1 If he had any such an idea in his head bead he be had it knocked out f in in a hurry Jt takes take two men to eni- eni such Euch sucha a d deal al and md has not been leen accused of an any such work as yet et l in his career career- Utah wrestling i fans will view with int interest res rest the progress and success of the tho S. S local cal Y N M. M C. C A. A wrestling team which will go to Portland shortly to compete a against t the clas classes s 's of tho the bi big athletic clubs there Wouldn't it be well however however how bow ever to send a guardian with Mike Miko Yokel to note that ho will be bo able to forgo tho the temptation of taking a whirl I at OConnell the Portland wrestler nestler who claims tho the welter weight championship champion champion- ship hip 1 Mike Miko i is anxious to get another crack a at OConnell O'Connell just to show him how bow littie little lit lit- tl tie tle ho he knows of the wrestling t game Mike Miko states that ho he has bas done this thiE once IH before fore in quick double timo an and believes be be- ieves es he can cando do 10 it again Mike adds however that ho will not meet 0 OCon Con until ho bo completes his contract with tho the Y M. M C. C A. A but then well we'll wellS W wait and see S Speaking of the race horse game in Salt Salt Lake Lako City it would appear that S the prospects for success could not be beS S better Billy Murray promises us another nn nn- other good gOOl meeting and if he be transacts S business as ho lie did In last t fall fail well it should speak peak for it itself in a advance vance I am not pcr personally with 4 r. r the bu methods of either cither Finn or orS or'S ori S 'S i Ri Rice e. e but Lut I T will wll t ili take Jay Davidsons Davidson's 5 word f f- Tnt Tho coast sporting writer I inn i if a 3 horseman of excellent ex ex- L i v- v von on Ui the turf and aud is emS employing em em- in UK nf integrity and ability S to fill fiU the on official c al positions This should S o gi-o ho hor horsemen emen confidence in the Salt SnIt j 1 Lake Lak meeting I believe o that the spring sprin r- r meeting is will be such a 3 bi big success in tho the Mormon town that a fall faU meeting will follow Cyclone Johnny Thompson appears appears ap ap- be the hard luck kid pears to Johnny JohnnyS S has put up some splendid id battles in his career an and repeatedly ly talks abo about t fight tight fighting ing Battling Nelson and md then n. n n right bt on n top of it puts up an exhibition which t th the e- e fans fan would call can rank for 01 a pros peco pec- pec tivo o champion S R Recently he was 5 beaten by hY one Peter Sullivan n of this dt city but ho lie turned right k L round around and anft followed this with a 1 good g S battle in in New Kew York only to fall fan down downS S again and get t mixed up in 10 a farce with S P Adam Ryan All AU this thia has como come about at atthe atthe the time when Thomps Thompson n is is trying to toi i i. force Battling Nelson into a match Judging Judlin from the tho activity shown by Bert Mar Margetts etts and Ed Middleton it can canI I plainly be seen that something is going oin S. S to happen in the wa way of independent 5 baseball and that tho the fans will in 10 addition addition addition addi- addi tion to tho the Intermountain lea league ball soma somo lively contests between the rivals of old old the tho Salt Lako Lake and Occidental Occidental Occidental dental teams These boys should bo be given no end of encouragement because they play good ball baU and can cm furnish all sorts of good amusement when hen tho leal team is is out of tho the city Manager Man Man- a ager er Farnsworth of the league team I feels friendly to tho boys s and will ill help helpt S t t them all an bo ho can A Tommy Ryan states tates that he IH would i like iko to take hold bold of Jim Tim Jeffries T and put him into condition for his proposed bout with Johnson If It there thero is ono one man who could put tho the big bis bo boiler maker into condition tion it is Tomm Tommy flynn R It was as foxy Tomm Tommy Ryan who really made Jeffries Jeffries Jef Jef- fries what he was once It was Tommy S. S Ryan Byan who prepared Jeffries for hi bi his hisS I S fights with Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmon Corbett and andS I Sharley S S Q t 5 i While the belief is generally accented accepted 4 that Stanley would have little vor or or no chance of defeating Jack Johnison John John- ilson ison Jack 0 OBrien O'Brien is authority for the tho that wo would make mako If i things s interesting for or the his big nc negro ro at al that 0 OBrien O'Brien fully tully believes that thai etchel's punch and courage would t overcome O John Johnson on in the long run Of Ol 1 S course there will be few fans who will wil r gree ree with 0 OBrien O'Brien but then his epin ion Ion should be bo worth something S Although this city has not yet vet gone oue wild of the Marathon roller skating S game as has Butte it might not be bo amiss to state that it has two of the tho theS S Ij let best t little skaters in the country in the theS S persons of Willie Willio S Sha z and Fenton Hardy Tho Timo Butte and An Anaconda papers are loud in n their praises e of tho the t tw two local local lo 10 lo- lo cal boys even e if we h have h hen been cn slow in recognizing the tho boys boys' ability I Tho The question stion is being asked I kc on the coast oa t Does Docs Comiskey bring brint his White Sox Sax squad lad to tho coast const on ou a n training trip or does ho do it to wake make money 1 Leave vo it to the old oM flom When Whon ho he hits tho coa coast t ho divides irles his bis team into two squads and takes talas in every ever dollar in in sight foight Tho The net result i about profit for the tho shrewd l oan Clyde Hall HaIt the well known Utah pitcher who woo has lias been making such uch a arre creditable showing with Omaha in tho the W Western tern league during the tho past few years rears informs mo that he ho is not going hack ack there this season on account of his lis business interests in 1 Could it t be he po possible ible that Manager Farnsworth is s overlooking o a bet ht 1 If IC Johnny Chapman manager r of tho bicycle track at Newark makes good h his threat that all r riders who are arc not noton noton noton on my track for tho the opening meet cnn can cannot not ride rino on it all this season ea on he will have lave his hands full fun because there thero is quite a atrin string trin of good ones at Atlanta this his week The Hd d dope about e offers for fora or orn a n 1 light fight ht bet between T Jeffries enrie and T Johnson is making interesting reading leading for or those who ho are arc not altogether familiar r with ho tho wa way thin things g aro are lone done in the sporting sport sport- in ug ing world Isn't it strange how baseball lions ious for the tIle opening of tho the season continue con- con notwithstanding tho the absence of Kling Klin- DenIm Donlin Jones and a few others Cv t Seymour refuses to bo ho shak shaken n and ana trails rails s along with tho Giants wherever they hey go 10 |