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Show THE CITIZEN IlllllllimiUlllll Mill Illllllll IIIIIIIIIII.IIIIIK Vial m, SPORTS Q quo miiginiini- Tati a warm seslast week Macs yuthful ollar champs had Ti1Cr ion sion it' is said Dempseys walking off with the series, capturing the odd game. Mac ,owev on our boys ieems o have something grounds, his team usually tU. rettin. the breaks and profiting by 4e t ors of our players. Perhaps a little more headwork on the here art ? the Portland manager. One notice that Mac has a ,' an i' t fail to dtclicr warming up at all stages of the ame. ready to take up the burden to when the regular flinger begins and does not have to send in 1 man while he is cold. Seals this Th, contest with theeek should demonstrate just how ilronj: our Bees really are. The first iame, which was a slugging match, and which we captured by the score if 14 loG, vras not a real indication of the abilities of the two teams. The iest of them run wild or look like hastens in some games. At least before he week is over, we may have some Idea of just how much chance the .Bees have of climbing into the first dihirelln- - ' 1 . S-eak- i, - r e the: vision. Many claim M MnJ e iuJ Ing I I lou know, they I' friend acy: fc! cat; Go!: i e; Util ii i i the i do I e jf. ngff! Netf ife ot; ten Dick Barry, s the youthful Californian started as shortstop for the Bees, jhas been granted his unconditional release and has caught on with the City team. Barry would undoubtedly have made good but that lie wTas jweak with the stick. Perhaps next "reason he will be' ready. It is to be hoped that Heine Sands will make Isood in the position vacated by Barry. jwlio Brig-jl.ai- n ... comes from Portland that Clair Bromeo has been matched with ;Jack Britton. Bromeo lias been mak- ! News -- s. ind- t eatf good in tho northwest, having de- foaled such boys as Dave Shade and ; Harry Casey since leaving this city. ing i memory of Captain Edward Grant, fi'iitior New York National infielder, t phi- only major league baseball player hiib-in the world war, baseball men nr he entire country paused for a fl'V moments on Decoration day, to ih;' nr his memory. hi iris - : vfr' ;ot )tht ; v imacuiuie I jK' I U mi men Piuumin at least Dempsey is while :ing in shape for tho big fight. It III Miors human punching bags feel that they would gladly change Jobs with the pugs who are assisting Carpentier in his preparation for the championship bout. Tom and Mike Gibbons of St. Paul were victors in boxing contests at Brooklyn, Decoration day. Tom scored his ninth straight knockout when he put Jack Clifford down for the count in the third round, while Mike received the judges decision after he had cutboxed Dave Rosenberg of Brooklyn. Hardy Downing gave the fight fans a run for their money Monday night. Ed Shepard of Salt Lake won the decision over Dan Sullivan of St. Paul in the headline event. Jack Boyd put Canadian Carter down for the count in the second round, while Walt Hart lost in the second round to West Johnnie Woodmansee decision-eJack Humphrey of Ogden. Lew Kaufman, after knocking Red Turville cown three times in the first and twice in the second, was awarded the decision. Red evidently had had Ket-chel- l. The players pitted against the young champion were A. M. Carlson, J. H. Angel, J. A. West, L. M. Page, R. C. Dittman, Stuart Barnes, oJhn Marek, H J. Acheson, L. B. Mishkind, Judge Henry V. Van Pelt, all of Salt Lake; S. A. Trotter of Castlegate, Utah, and the Rev. C. W. Barber of Evanston, Wyo. The play was held from 3 till 5 oclock, but the great majority of the players had been beaten or resigned before the hour of closing the match arrived. HARDING DEMANDS LOWER FREIGHT RATES. a - enough. Babe Ruths fourteenth home-run- , made on May 30, brought his major league total to 117, equalling the mark of Clifford C. Cravath, manager of the Bees. Cravaths homers were spread over more years than Ruths, however. old-im- e friend Morris Rath, who has seen eivice in a world series since he last Appeared in this city, in a Salt Lake uniform. Rath has many friends among the fans, all of whom are glad see him again, even if he is in the .camp of the enemy. I : excellent The Seals look an I I tlgSti' have in McCarthy. ike a big league team just now. This week we have with us our 'gdtt' lteit-- g Theres class in that aggregation, well tell the world, and then, tor. y play-n- uncli. elm i that the Seals are over their heads, but take it rom Willie, it will require some real all playing to stop that Frisco coi ;ed 2 man may be a good chess player, without having to stand up under such a name as this boy wonder wears around every day, yet with his peculiar species of nomenclature, he enters every contest with a decided handicap over his opponents, it would seem, from the manner and ease with which he usually cleans up a tried and true bunch of veteran players wherever he encounters them across the checkered cloth. Two American League batting records were equalled on Decoration day. One mark five home runs in one game was duplicated in the Louis contest, the Indians getting three and the Browns two. Graney of Cleveland hit two and Elmer Smith one. The other two weie batted by Kenneth Williams of St. Louis and, coupled with his two homers Saturday, enabled him to equal Ruths record of four in three conseeu-tiv- e games. Cleve-land-S- t. Michigan defeated Wisconsin, 9 to S, in the longest western conference game on record, at Ann Arbor, Mich., on Decoration day. The contest went eighteen innings, and the playing time was five hours and fifteen minutes. of Joe Lynch, worlds bantamweight champion, was announced by the New York state boxcommission The ing commission. stated that Lynch and his manager, Eddie Meade, had been suspended pending further action by the Massachusetts state board of boxing, which previously had suspended them on a charge of violating a contract to box at Holyoke, Mass., April 29. Suspension Rzcscliewski, boy chess Samuel prodigy, made it an eleven to one shot in his tryout with the best chess playr en frs of Salt Lake at the Kelt store, Wedcnsday afternoon. While a The attitude of President Harding in asking for a reduction in freight rates, following upon the announced reduction in wages of railroad employees by the labor board, totaling $400,000,000, will be hailed with delight by the masses who have stood for inflation all along the line of industrial and transportation activities until it has become well nigh unbearable. No one recognizes more than does the president that the ultimate consumer pays the freight as well as all the rest of the tax assessed against them in the multiplicity of forms in which public and quasi-publi- c corporations are wont to place their burdens upon the people. While the president has as yet taken no drastic action to reduce freight tariffs, he has let it be known in a manner most impressive that a reduction in wages presages a corresponding cut in rates. The president has not concealed his conviction that the commission in directing rate reductions must not confine itself to mere rate inequalities, but must provide for a general i eduction in transportation charges. Harding believes that a spejdy return to normalcy is only possible by bringing down rates and charges In all transportation and industrial lines that have soared to dizzy heights, and he is impressing upon the directing geniuses of the big carriers and other corporations that a determined mind is now at the helm of national affairs. GETTING IT STRAIGHT. This is an article about trapshoot-ers- . a worthy and enthusiastic class. There is a saying, once a trapsliooter always a trapshooter. And tell the compositor something. What?. There Is a good cigar in it for him if he doesnt get it crap shooter. Kansas City Journal. TIME TO CUT TAXES. Rumor from Washington has it that congress after spending several months in uncertainty, Is about to decide what taxes shall be imposed upon the American people. It looks very much as if the excess profits tax would go in company with the tax on soda water, ice cream and kindred articles. Transportation taxes are also likely to be abolished.' . This will be welcome news for the most part It is uncertain whether or not the theatre taxes will be repealed. There is little question but they should be taken off. It costs far too much now . for a family to spend an evening at a motion picture house and the tax but adds unnecessarily to the burden. Strange how much it costs in this city to attend the theatre when in a nearby city you can see a much longer performance, very often much better d what it pictures for about costs here. Of course there is no vaudeville on the bill but good pictures are preferable to bad or indifferent vaudeville every time. There is a strong demand for a reduction of the normal income tax from four to three per cent. This is not much of an income, but there are many who feel that incomes of $1,000 a year in the case of a single person should not be taxed. When a persons income reaches around the $44,000 mark that person can better afford to pay a reasonable per cent than the person who is making from $1,000 to $2,000 a year. The leaders are against any reduction in this tax. It is proposed to increase the tax on tobacco from fifty to one hundred per cent. At the rate things are going if this proposed tax is put in force the W. C. T. U. need not worry or extend their campaign to stamp out the use of tobacco. This tax will do it very effectually as only the rich will be able to afford to smoke. This tax will have the same effect as the Volstead law did on liquor. The rich were enabled to lay away a goodly supply and although prices for liquor are prohibitive few will deny that if a perron has the price the liquor is forth-- one-thir- coming. It is high time some of these lead- ers took into consideration that there are quite a number of people in this country outside the rich class who are entitled to consideration. Bridgeport Life. A LONG TIME AGO. Our memory goes back to the time when a girl used to be vaccinated on the leg so it wouldnt show. Dallas (Texts) Mirror. BOBBY WAS RIGHT. Teacher Bobby, is tho sentence correct, "Sho will go wants to or not? whether she Bobby No, miss. Teacher Why not? Bobby Because she wont go if she doesnt want to. |