Show L Gossip By F F. V. V FITZGERALD Butte is making a remarkable showing show- show inc ing at the annual shoot of the National Rifle association t on at Washington With three of the eleven cleven matches over the Rocky Mountain Rifle club of Butte is tied with the tho Winchester Rod and Gun Jun club of New Nev Haven for first honors each having wm its three matches Billy Dc 1 on the Oregon Orgon middle middleweight middleweight middleweight weight champion who meets Jack Rogers Bogens Rog Bog ers ens in a ten round boxing contest at Murray Thursday night has a large following Tho Thoi Oregon champion has fought many o of aE the best men in the game and his ilis great knowledge of the ring game will h Jp him materially in iii his coming match math If it Jack Rogers gainsa gains gain a a. decisive victory over the Ore Oregon on lad ho he will wiH bo among the championship pos poe The backing hacking which tho the Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon man is is receiving is causing some Borne of Rogers Rogers' fronds frends to become dubious about the Springville boys boy's chances Interest in tho the Yokel Karp-Yokel Yokel match has become feverish Both men are in practically perfect condition and anti should give tho the best boat exhibition of wrestling ever seen in f alt Lake After seeing both of them work out one conies comes to I Ithe the conclusion that tho the bout bont will surely be a t draw They ar are so evenly matched that it is hard hara to think that either ither will be able to throw the other Karp is perhaps a trifle faster and more acro acro- batic Yokel however has the longer reach and greater strength Both are scientific and each probably knows the breaks for all of the tho others other's holds Each is is 15 extremely anxious to throw the other and the result probably will rest in in the head work no not in the muscles of the two At any rate the match will be bemore bemore e emora more mora than worth w while He The training quarters of Bird Leg Collins at South State str street et arc are crowded each day with hundreds of fans anxious to to get a line on the colored boys boy's chances with Pete Peto Sullivan Sulli van in in their twenty-round twenty bout at Og Og- den don Each day Collins works out with Kid Ross Kid Bell anti and Young Blackie ills His work is of the slam bang order and illustrates tho ability of the neg negro o to slug oven with the big pillows used in training His boxing follows exceptionally fast bag rope and ani and shadowboxing shadow shadow- boxing work At Ogden Pete Sullivan is working out at the White Whito Elephant club before an admiring crowd Before Sullivan started to train in Ogden the colored boy was the favorite there ther but now the Ogden fans are arc a little inclined toward 1 Pete ete Like the Salt Lake people people peo peo- pie they are arc convinced that the two boys arc are arc decidedly ev evenly matched Th The safest bet perhaps is that the boys will box so fast from the tho initial gong that one or the other will not last to tho the finish |