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Show 1 competition 11 the spring games of a J number of the bust men on tiio R Y V. team. The question $ yet undecided, unde-cided, and there la certain to be a great denl of ill-feeling before ti e matter mat-ter is settled. Star track men all over tho United States ure expressing a greit .1 of d.stalfcfac'ion wlh the l.u;garj ic-tics ic-tics of the p.ntles in 'harge of Olympic Olym-pic teams from this country, Follow-ing Follow-ing the announcement thatthe games till-: vear would iu nil prol;:hili;v ). held In Athena. Greece. whence M.nt-(i M.nt-(i the time-honored festivals, the oill-cials oill-cials in the United States declared that the possibilities of a team from the United States taking part In the games were remote. It Is sai l that If a team were sent from this conn try It would have to be made up without with-out the collegiate stars, as the intercollegiate inter-collegiate championship games come at a time when it would Dot b? possible possi-ble for the college boys to get away. In spite of this, however. It Is believed bv men who have followed the game nil their lives that the great athletic clubs of the country could produco enough material to again walk away with the championship. The te.uu which won the world'6 championship several years ago at AthenB was composed com-posed mostly of club stars, the proportion pro-portion of college men being small. With the great stars who have been holding the spotlights of years breaking break-ing Into print every few weeks with new records in all avents. It seems that something should be done in the way of making up a team to snatch another world's chnmplonship from the pick of the globe. 'BIG CROWD SEES DMITMH Another crowded bouse turned out jrsterday afternoon to witness Tommy Dawson po through his training stunt at bis training quarters over the fire Malion, and If the Indications of support given by the fans so far are to be taken as a forecast of the crowds to appear when the clever little lit-tle Irishman appears on March 24 at the local auditorium for bis twenty-round twenty-round match with Pete Sullivan then the bout will be a success. Contrary to the published reports annt the nationality of Dawson, he is all Irish, and, like all good Irishmen, proud of It Dawson's nose Is still badly swollen as a result of Its collision with the head of the Tennessee Kid, his sparring spar-ring partner, but nothing more serl ous than a bruise has occurred, and it Is expected that the swelling will have gone down in a few days. The Tennessee Kid gets all the work these days, as Manager Walker Is experiencing experi-encing a great deal of trouble In procuring pro-curing sparring partners lor his man. CJuite a number of local pugilists asked to be allowed to help in the training work, but Walker says that now his boy Is on the Job nd working work-ing and evervbody is fighting shy of hi m. Dawson is more and more In love with Ogden as a training grounds every day, and said yesterday that it was the greatest town he had ever struck for his profession Ho boxed eighteen rounds at full peed jester-day jester-day afternoon and was breathing easily eas-ily at the flnlsn, showing that tho altitude alti-tude has not affected him and lila wind Is In perfect shape. Announcement by R. A. Grant that he would stage the coming Dawson-Sulllvnn Dawson-Sulllvnn affray In the Ogden auditorium auditor-ium on March 21 is taken by Ogden ring followers as another evidence of the fact that Ogden Is the best and only place In the state of Utah, from a geographical or other standpoint, In which to stage an event of Importance. Import-ance. Now that It Is definitely decided de-cided that Oirden. and not Pocatello will be the scene of the contest, the Salt I-ake papers, which have been boosting tho stock of Dawson, the little English scrapper, have taken to either completely forgetting the existence ex-istence of the little boxer, or giving him mention In 33 few words as possible. pos-sible. It seems rather ragged, after all the boosts given the Englishman by certain Salt Ijiko papers, on his great record In tho ring In the last few yoars, for the same papers to come out and say something like this: "Dawson claims to have a great record." rec-ord." They do say that some Salt Jankers wanted to manage the English lightweight, and falling in this, took the usual Jealous course peculiar to the "sports" of the capitol city, and started to knock. We don't hear anymore any-more about Salt lake's chances to get the big Jeff rles-.lohn son contest. Have you nollced it? Tex Rickard was reported as having said that he had received an offer from Salt Like business men which greatly surpassed thai of the I-os Angela man who was alleged to have offered ."--lr.n.ooo for all rights in the contest The next day Joseph Nelson, who went to Ihe coast ostensibly to secure and clinch Ihe contest for Salt Lake, was given some space in a Salt Lake paper, in which bo said- "They talk, talk, hut when money Is mentioned they shy off " Where Is that alluring Salt Lake offer, of-fer, Mr. Rickard? Preparatory to absolute retirement from the wrestling mat, Frank Gotch, the grappW who has thrown all the aspirants to the heavyweight title. Is meandering alnt the country pinning dnwn the shoulder of all who have tho tomerlty to grip wllh him. Afler tho small try who mix up with the champion for nothing but a little notoriety are all laid on their hacks, Gotch has announced his intention of giving Dr. Roller, the Seattle physician, physi-cian, Mohmout. the Terrible Turk, and any others who have a chance to win, an opportunity to annex the title. So far Mahmout has been unablo to secure se-cure many matches, and It looks as though most of tho wrestlers of the country do not like his game. Dr. Roller haa settled the aspirations of one Raoul de Rouen, the "biting Frenchman." for a while, and a match between the Seattle Sawbones and the Terrible Turk for the privilege of meeting Gotch acorns to bo the next logical move In the fighting game. The prevalent opinion among the experts ex-perts seems to be that Roller stands the best cbanco to get the title, hut should he meet up with Gotcb, and tho champion go In to win. roost of the money would undoubtedly bo placed on the present champion. Pattered Hat Nelson is reported to have practically signed up to meet Matty Baldwin early In June, around the some dale on which he wa3 to have met Cyclone Johnny Thompson. The gassy ex-champ of the lightweights light-weights apparently hasn't lost any of of his high regard for the prowess of the Thonrp?on person. Ho never did like to arguo with Thompson, and It Is beginning to be whispered that one Ad Wolgast, champion lightweight of tho world, will follow religiously lu the footsteps of his predecessor In avoiding a conflict with Thompson. Just at present Ad has all he can do to rake in shc-ckels sufficient to stave off the challenges of the fair sex, about seventeen of whom, according to tho reports, are yearning to unite with the champion In the bonds of matrimony. Jack .Tohnoon must le planning a prnnd stand play of some kind. Here nioie than a week has parsed aud '1 ,11 Arthur Jawnsing has not been arrest- I ed even once. This time he's apt to murder omo one, If his past actions can be taken an a criterion of what's In 6tore for the walling world of sport. The action of the University in allowing al-lowing the crippled team of the Y. M. C. A. team of Salt Lake additional time in which to round the team info thape for their gaiue, which bt rup-posed rup-posed to decide the championship, la meeting with a great deal of commendation com-mendation in amateur 6portin circles. cir-cles. The Y. M. C, A- team was so badly battered In its last porno with the Provo aggregation, coupled with the departure of two of itj fUr men, that the trip to Chicago, on which tbo men have been counting for some time and which was looked forward to wllh a great deal of pleaur-?, had lo be given up. Athlftl: relations between be-tween the Provo bo ar;i the University Uni-versity are f till rather drained, how-CAr, how-CAr, due prLmarlly to the threaten d action of tow 'varsity in enforcing tho four-year rule, which wdl bar from |