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Show TRUTH 7 The bicycle track- has not been doing admittedly the best umpire ever seen have so strong a team as last year, it in the State. A prolonged losing streak will have a good team and one that will much business the past week from the cannot be attributed to an umpire alone creditably represent It. man of the who counts the standpoint and laying a defeat to an umpire is - Sporting Gossip. The attendance at the local baseball regames holds up in a manner truly markable when it is remembered that what Is generally considered the baseball season is now some weeks past. paid At last Sundays game 2100 people admission, and the turnout to the week day games has been fully up to the standard of the middle of the season. The championship series between Salt Lake and Ogden has awakened as much interest as was shown in fullyfour-club league earlier in the year. the The progress of this series thus far has been especially gratifying to the Salt Lake fans in one particular, namely, that the Salt Lake club has to date far the best of it and is making a showing that promises to win the championship for this city. not regarded by the best authorities as the proper position for the vanquished to take. It is not considered the most truly sportsmanlike way to take a defeat. If the Ogden team will drop its kicking at the umpire and carry off a few games it will go far toward regaining its vanishing prestige. The All Hallows team is already working out and promises to be stronger than ever before. The school will have the call on more beef this year, and as weight in the line was what it needed most last year, it is expected that the adherents of the blue will have more chances to yell this season. - It cannot be denied that the new players added to the Salt Lake club have been in large measure responsible for the success of the team. The four men secured from Lagoon, Weaver, Newmeyer, McNichols and Bradley, are a formidable quartette of run getters, and it takes run getters to win games. The Salt Lake club retained the best of Its old team, Webster, McCausland, Taylor, Hickey, Meredith, 'Williams and Kimerer, and to these have been added "Pop Eyler and Bob McHale from the Western league, the latter two men arriving last week. Eyler was easily the most successful pitcher Denver had this year and McHale, in addition to outfielder, is regarded being a as the best baserunner in the Western. As the Salt Lake team now stands it is an unusually strong organization. What the club was weak in during the early part of the season was its hitting. This was corrected when the championship series was started by dropping the weak hitters, and the value of the change is made startlingly apparent by the winning streak the team has developed in the new series. gik-edg- ed : Just what ails Ogden Is not clear. It was not accepted as a fdregone conclusion that the Ogden team would win the championship series, . but ' it was taken for granted, considering the teams record, that it would make a stronger showing against the new Salt Lake club. The rally Ogden took last week led to the belief that It would soon be neck and neck with Salt Lake, but instead the Ogden boys went to the bad again and in one or two of the games this week has put up a lamentable exhibition of ball, playing In a manner which can scarcely be called ball. The hitbetter than school-bo- y ting of the club is getting to be poor, and as this was Ogdens main strength. Salt Lake has found the club easy to handle. The members of last years High School team have been doing most of the football talk this week. These boys, after asserting repeatedly that they would not play unless Ab Howell and Fred Smith, two of the players of last year, were permitted to remain on the team, finally decided not to organize this year. There has been a serious question as to eligibility of either of the boys named, one being a graduate and the other not being enrolled at the school this year. Principal Eaton of the High School has emphatically and properly announced that none but bona fide students of the high school could be on the team. This has caused much talk against Mr. Eaton on the of the members of the old team, andpart some of their faithful adherents, who say Mr. Eaton dont want the school to win. This sort of talk is certainly "kid talk, and reserves the same amount of consideration usually given to Infants gabble. The main trouble with the boys who constituted last years team is that, being young, they have become inflated through a long succession of victories. Without any intent to detract from their d victories and their clean record for three straight seasons, It is apparent these youths have figured it out that without them the high school can have no football team, all of which Is not warranted by the history of the human race. Because Alexander conquered the world it did not follow that there were no other great commanders. The old High School team 'had to start once. Its members were not always the excellent players they now are. Following out their idea the personnel of the team would not change so long as they all lived and were able to play football. Having now decided not to organize it is in order for these boys to buy tickets and watch the new High School- team play, giving the new men the benefit of the knowledge and experience the retired players possess, and letting the young blood at the school have a chance. Principal Eaton says the work of picking out boys for the new team is now going on, and, while it is possible the school will not The athletic agreement entered into by some of the leading educational institutions last spring is likely to cause some trouble from reports now current. It is rumored that two of the schools which were parties to the agreement are already taking steps that will lead to a violation of the compact in the first game played. It is to be hoped, however, that the agreement, or some other agreement, will be adhered to, so that the game may be put on some sort of stable basis in Utah for the first time. There may be a football league this fall. There is a strong sentiment in favor of it. and a number of plans have already been suggested. The University and T, M. C. A. will doubtless put in good heavy teams, and it is proposed to organize a Salt Lake Independent team, taking in a team from Logan or Provo to make four, all the teams to be on a strictly amateur basis. This plan, or even one including more places, would be a good one for football in the State, and would settle beyond question the championship of the year, something which was not done last year. justly-merite- more outside teams will some to Salt Lake this year than before. Communications from managers in other States have been reaching local managers at intervals for weeks past, and lately they have begun to come in bunches. The Denver team imported for the big Thanksgiving game last year proved a chilling frost, and it may be taken for granted that this team, which came for the second time last year, would prove a dead There will card as an attraction. doubtless be plenty of strong teams within reach, however, so mat there will be no need of getting poor It is probable that - TTiHrns. money. The cool evenings and the heavy counter attraction of the Elks fair have diminished the attendance to a marked degree. The Increasing coolness of the evenings Indicate that it is about time for the management to put on the afternoon meets suggested or to shut down. The Salt Palace association goes out with this month and It is more than likely that the track will close at that time. . A change in the management of the Salt Palace grounds and the bicycle track was attributed to patriotic motives last week. According to the story of the affair the directors of the Salt Palace decided to hold a bicycle meet on the night of Thursday, the day designated as President McKinleys memorial. Referee Sharp refused to sanction the meet, but before that was known Track Manager W. D. Rishel resigned, and when his resignation reached Manager M. E. Mulvey of the Salt Palace Mr. Mulvey added his own resignation and sent the pair to the diS. A. rectors, both being accepted. Mann was appointed to fill both positions, and is now officiating as general manager of the entire property. John Lawson, the "Terrible Swede, has a new record to hang up on the wall. In competition with W. F. King Saturday night, Lawson clipped 21 off the seconds record, bringing it down to 3 seconds. Law-so- n hours, 24 minutes, 21 will Immediately proceed to make application for the record to N. C. A. lle 2- -5 headquarters. TRULY PITIFUL. "How I pity Lawberg! "Why? "His wife, you know His wife? I thought her a lady? "She is, but shes learning to sing The . sweet-temper- ed Holy City. A NEW ARRANGEMENT OF AN OLD SONG. There is a song theyve sang for years That has a meaning new; Tis all filled full of hopes and fears Likewise of Buckle too. They winna canna winna see, But will before theyre through, If counting on the slate to be, They dont count Buckle, too. 3HEaxtfnEsiRL9 Lessee cartel Manage r INCORPORATED After one of the terrific drubbings of the week the Ogden players got together and a proposition to disband actually under consideration. This was repudiated by the management the following day, but the fact remains nevertheless that some of the players were ready to throw up the sponge. It bespeaks a poor athletic spirit. Confidence is one requisite for a successful team, and without it no club can long continue to win. The management has given out the positive assurance that the club will finish out the schedule, which Is a gratifying announcement to those who have been so liberal in their support during the series. It is still possible for Ogden to win the purse and five or six victories, would produce a marked change In the situation. w-a- s One phase of the situation that has not pleased the local patrons is the continued kicks Ogden has made against William Hoffer as an umpire. Unbiased critics who have watched all the games closely are a unit In asserting that Hoffer has been the best Umpire of the year with the possible exception of Arthur Clarkson, who was Office in Deseret National Bank SADrLAXBCnTVUH. Capital 76,000.00. Telephone 142. Fill this up, clip It out and mail to TRUTH, n and la Central Block. A POLITICAL Salt Lake City BUSINESS LEdAL TRUTH PUBLISHING CO. EDUCATIONAL and SOCIETY You are hereby authorized to send to me belttto TR TJT-LL . 1 V r . ' , v Agent. 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