Show Weeks Week s Sport Gossip By Walter Walt r D. D Bratz THE WRESTLING GAME GANE Wrestling i is about to l 10 o revived rc in th Salt Lake City Tho nr first t step in ill tie coming to fo life of this great game j i a match to take J r l lon on or aT about February 23 3 between Mike l kel ke of this city and M. M 1 1 V. V Farmer Farmel Burns of Davenport Da In la Doth Both ar arP wrestlers of tho the first waler water aud I thid I i am hitting kitting the nail on ou tho tim hf ken hen henI kenI I sn say that tho match will be oo ou tho square quale I hope I am at any rate I t am pleased to noto note that such Mich an m mor or organization as th the Y M. M C. C A. A is at tho b head ad of tho the venture as that will nm o i the fans every e assurance that tho match will ivill bo be on tho the square Not that I think there might bo be a desire on tho the J part of the participants to fako Lako outright out ont right but because thero aro FO o many thor other ways was of skinning a R. sucker as IS tho the impression goes gocs especially in in tho the wrestling gamo game I r have havo known Yokel for a number o of if years longer lon and moro more intimately in than any other man in in Sat Salt Lake City ity and I have ha yet to hear of even tho the first Inkling of ot a crooked match that Mike Miko has been identified with ith EO that I h have havo o implicit faith in in him A great reat many thin things s have havo been said aid about Farmer Burns but I do behove be bc- hove that ho bo will como come hero and tho The fans the best thero is in in him because I It do 10 not see how he ho can do otherwise so under the conditions in which tho the match is being beinA promoted Wrestling in itself is a sport You dont don't ha have havo o to hippodrome and frame up and amI stall and nd rough it and ancI do doa o oa a Jot JoL of similar thin things to pack a hall hail in in inthis n this cit city But so much of this I H phoney work ork has como come off oft durin during the past ton years that tho promoters arc are reluctant about guaranteeing a of even 1000 for a match with l rank Frank a. a s ae a c Frequently the tho men who vho ho aro are scheduled for an appearance miss their train or dislocate their little finger or do a n number of outlandish tb things D S. S T Then en th tho absence of ot the scheduled star is car fully concealed con Con- caled until the lj house uso is filled and then thien n the fans funs arc permitted to go o home homo disgusted disgusted dis dis- gusted lIst ll with the tho farcical exhibition If the bouts are arc handled 1 properly nail and tho the athletes themselves show r proper spirit a great eat match should result If Jf both hoth ar are aro inclined to work tho loving ill IHl public is always alwa's 5 satis satis- fied I. I A St. St Tennis Joui writer in commenting on tl opening l of If the wrest wrestling lint game there ut utters t 8 a fe few sentences worthy worth of re remembrance re- re m 1 in Salt Lake Tahe when he lie ays nys If H you must wrestle here just wrestle Ic- Ic I It It s a n noble sport It was wasn n a i sport that was WiS one of tho thio features fent of If f tho the Olympic games Xo o need to tofake fake this thi sport Jo 10 make mone money Healthily Health Health- ily iJ- eloped developed it i is u n game tho pO flU en er will crowd to sec eeC Of Or course conree and ana its a pleasure to say 13 it H all wrestlers arc not crooks neither arc aie all promoters There arc tre honest t 4 J len inthis well veIl as in other lints s. I think wo we have havo honest men inca nn and honest I promoters in in the scheduled local match I BEAUTY John r Clarkson that great rea t pitcher I The Mathewson of tho SOs has f fallen a victim to the dread pneumonia Previous ious to his demise the once onca great reat pitcher suffered untold agony iu in in a hospital lOs lies pital at Waltham Mass rass but ut death finally furnished the relief nn and his wonderful won won- derf l feats will now become only a matter of record For or years ears tho the highest praise that could bo be bestowed upon a n pitcher was to sa say lie lIo is almost almos Uron as good as Clark Clark- son sou It is doubtful if a 1 headier pitcher ever faced a batsman in the history of I baseball With old Mike Kelly who has hason I long on sinco since gone Jone ono to his grave I pitched wonderful baseball all for Au Auson's on g Chica Chicago o White Whito St Stockings mid and the strategic strategic stra stra- movements mo of this great reat battery lattery created for its members a 1 reputation f for r possessing more brains than any nU other two who over o worked together lie llo was just 23 3 years earB old when he joined Anson I and four years later ho ho and Kelly were sold to Boston for That baseball base base- ban ball deal astonished tho the sporting world Losing this famous battery practically ruined tho Chicago club and it was twenty years yeaTS trying to win another pen pen- nant Dant In Boston Doston Clarkson continued to shine as tho the hi highest helt light on tho pitching slab winning the flag for the in 1801 The Tho released him to Cleveland After a short period with Cleveland and Br Baltimore he dropped out of if baseball entirely saying Baying that he would never go o to the bushers Unfortunately Clarksons Clarkson's life out of baseball was an unhappy one Of a amorose amorose amorose morose and melancholy spirit when not in ill a a. baseball uniform ho hG developed mental troubles and for th the past few years eau has bean been frequently confined to toa toa a sanitarium The telegraphic dispatches dis uis- uis patches state that that during the tho last few days of ot his life his bis mind was almost entirely gone one and that bo lie had bad to be strapped to his bis bed death has bas cas cast case a gloom loom over the older baseball men There was something a a. personality old timers say that marked him kirn as lS a leader jn in an his profession Not Kot only was this true truo from a mere more standpoint of baseball baseball base base- ball but from a standpoint of culture nail and refinement Ho TIo took tool baseball son seri seriously and seemed to consider it a profession pro of stan standing a n business to be followed with ith all of ones one's ability Ho never appeared upon the tho field iu ju a dirt dirty uniform lie pitch pitched d the same ame way Ho He was one ODO of tho original users mers of the slow ball ban Ho was a grace grace- ful fiti fielder and for years attended to tn this department bettor better r than any other pitcher John Clarkson was a man in whom younger O er ball players should find an m ex cx- ample SUNDAY BASEBALL Bishop William McMillan Mc of tho t second twenty ward also a a. tato rep short short on good od ju judgment ent II and lon long on a desire desiro to start something has has struck upon a particular hobby which bieh is is to stop all form of sport oh on n the Sabbath It would appear that in many respects re- re hi his bill is a joo good one one one-in in so 80 o far faras faras as as- asit it seeks to stop the brutal forms of ot sport FIOrt such Buch as do dog fi fights cock fi fights prize prize- prizefights fights and the like all of which are s already covered co by bv our statutes however When this s same camo mo bishop Undertakes undertakes un Un- undertakes to stop that harmless recreation tion Sunday tion-Sunday Sunday baseball ho baseball ho may have havo I bitten off more mOTe than lIe he can an chow to borrow from the vernacular of or the sInn slang Baseball is a a. national game gam and thousands of men and women whose souls are arC just as pure as Bishop Me Mc- r li I s 's go o to witness s Sunday ball hall ballI I I games because th they can call seo no nil more moro I harm m in in it than if f Bishop McMillan plays a i-i t game of croquet on the front lawn Jawn with his wife or his daughter There are arc but a f fw w states left leH in the tho United States where Sunday baseball lI lIis is is not permitted It is S being bein- demanded by br the time fans everywhere o an and the they aro are gradually battering down the ramparts of opposition Indiana which has baJ al nl always 81 ways ll boon been en a against the playing plain of tho national game gaino by professional clubs climbs on tho the first day clay of the week has at last le legalized tho the sport and a a. bill repealing tho the old law passed tho the house t by a n goo good oo majority Thoro There can bo absolutely no harmI harm harm harm- I I either cither to man or woman woman woman-in in a respectably respect ably conducted gamo JUo of baseball not any v ny moro more than there thero i is in in taking a adrio drive o with your best girl rl or in going skating because it is but a n form of ot recreation Bishop McMillans McMillan's re argument tr ment however however how how- ever cr may maJ be that it keeps people away from irom his con congregation Jf lJ that i is is the case or tho point that is hoped to bo be o gained I can but say 51 that tho selfish efforts which ho is trying to foster while representing his constituents ts in inthe m in tho the house of representatives es could better better bet bet- t ter be applied in attending to tho the affairs affairs af af- af fairs of his congregation and the legislature legis legis- I laturo lature is no iio place for him It is a poor for Bishop McMillan J to sa say I We We will stop all of your forms of recreation so 50 that you u must como conic to church because tho time bishops bishop's bread will surely fall on the tho buttered side if ho he docs My y advice to this s bishop is is this thi Go out ald mint mind your own busi busi- ness Spend your our time Lime in sayin saving tho the souls of tIme the poor sinners who re really Jy need your timo and aud 10 do not attempt to interfere with a form of recreation which has been boen demanded and adopted by thousands upon thousands thousand of good goodmen o omen men and women women not not only in Salt Lake City but ut all over this great reat country I PACKEY I enjoyed a n visit with Packey Mc Me- Farland tho the great little stock yards yard s boxer from rom Chicago yesterday and it was is-as a pleasure to converse converso with a ho boxer cr crof of his caliber and aumi gentlemanly habit It moro more firmly than ihm ever impressed mo ruo that there thero aro a n great reat man ninny many refined refine voting follows even in tho the boxing game Liko Lilo Pete Peto Sullivan Dick Inland and anda a few fow others is a gentleman ono whom you could take tako into your homo and i introduce to your family Packey is not riot of the tho off horn while spit kind lint but as ns fino fine a little gentleman as one ever eyer met lie IIo does oe not Dot stand in in a barroom an and ask to be lie introduced a as a'S a fighter lIe IIo is in tho time game gamo to do lo the tho right thiD thing and antl in- in make what money ho can because lie bC is gifted in in tho use use uso of his fist fisli What a fine fino came camo it would be he if all boxers hoxer were like liko Packy McFarland Ic or Pete Sullivan THAT BOWLING GAME It is ig to be e hoped that tho the boys bos who have lw under tinder consideration on tho sending of a Salt Lake bowling team to Seattle on tho occa occasion ion of tIm tho western bowling con congress will be bo successful in raising tho necessary funds with which hieb to mako the trip and we wc should all turn in an and boost to assure the going oin of tho the team Salt Lake Lako has a great roan many goOd bowlers from out of which nu number a fast team could ouM bo be selected selected selected-a a team that hat would do credit to Salt Lake City It is a good ad to have havo our city represented represented and it makes us appear appeal behind time he times not to be e represented Heros Hero's hoping the thc boys the time I MARATHON RACING The Marathon game gamo is reaching the where ono one ma may expect tho regular regu- regu lar ar professional Ie foot foot raco race outcome With two of tho the best est runners under ono management the tho sport is is bound to todie todie todie die tho the death kath all such sports reach eventually Tho hope that tho the Marathons Mara Mara- thon hons thons at least would bo be o kept clean was vas doom doomed ell to disappointment from tho the first Tins Has it over o occurred to you what you what will becom of that good little baseball baseball base base- ball town Murray if Lucas forms his proposed Intermountain lea league o f It would be a 3 shame shamo to turn tho smelter town out into the tha cold after proving provins itself such a good tood ball town last ast season It dont don't look U U. S. S Sf beca because so Murray has proven pro th that t sho is there thero therewith therewith with the goods Sho She has in her ber midst an aggregation of truo true sportsmen that cant can't bo be beaten anywhere A great many complaints have o navo been re registered against tho the recently formed formell Salt Lake Lako County Fish and Game Garno Pro Pro- association on the tho ground that it i is a political or organization as well as to bo bl run by DY y just ono one selected clique Ono One prominent sportsman suggests sug sug- Jests that it should bavo bayo been beon designated desi Tho Bailer Duck Club and anil Fish Protective o association and md Game Gamo Tho Those c physicians who removed romo a porion por- por lion ion of time backbone of an unfortunate iron worker at nt yn Md fd recently recently re re- re might hear something to their a advantage if t they e have hava saved tho pIeCe pieces by applying to some of themen tho the men who have havo been becu cho chosen cn by the peo peo- do plo to represent them in Utah's legis leis lature lattire 1 |