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Show Sporting Life. Football, king of all sports, now holds the center cen-ter of the stage with all the bunch lights thrown on it and the rah-rah boys are endeavoring to get a corner on the hair tonic market so that the fair devotees of the game may know just who they are when they parade down the boulevard with their chests thrown out like a pouter pigeon's and their shaggy manes disturbing the atmosphere. Fall down and worship, 0 ye maids. For the prince has come and due court must be paid to his royal highness. The moleskin will now be the mode in wearing apparel, while the pigskin is the proper bunch to fit the shoes into. In another week all the vacant lots, campuses, etc., will be black with the youthful aspirants for gridiron honors going through the various preliminary pre-liminary stunts of falling on the ball, tackling, running, and getting used to having one's slats staved in and one's head sat upon, all of which is necessary toward the making of a good football player. The giddy mob at the University of Utah will be coached again this year by Prof. Holmes, famous as a ground and lofty tumbler at the University Uni-versity of Wisconsin some years ago. So many years ago in fact that unless he has dug up a few new ideas since last fall to show his eleven, things are apt to shunt off on a sidetrack instead of coming com-ing his way this season, for there is no game on the face of the map which has more innovations from year to year than football. Nearly all of last year's championship eleven have signified their intention of being present when the roll is called for the formal opening of the scholastic year, so Holmes will have a splendid bunch of material to start with. Fritz Riser, manager of last year's team, and one of the strongest players play-ers who ever wore the "U. of U.," has announced his candidacy for a place behind the line, where he was a star two years ago. A number of fast , men are expected to show up in the entering class, which is said to contain some of the best football material that has ever entered the University. Delvers in the classics, languages, ancient history, etc., may go away back under the rubber plants and seek their hammock. The pleasantest news received by Coach Holmes during the past week is the intention of Joe Zilligan, the giant guard of the crack Denver "Wheel Club eleven of last fall, which came over to this burg and made the local Y. M C. A. eleven looklike a lot of decrepit cigar signs, to enter the University this fall in the mining department. While Zilligan says that he is simply going there to complete a course in minerology which he began last year in the School of Mines at Boulder, Colo., every effort will be made to induce him to once more don the spangles to the football arena. He would be far and away the bright, scintillating star of the team for he ould not only be the largest, strongest, and heaviest man on the team, but the one most I versed in the fine points of the game. His area beneath his hat is filled to overflowing with a Knowledge of the sPort and his advice would be ' incalculable value to the University. Not much is doing at present at the High school nor at All Hallows although the latter team is busily engagf4 in a searcn for a competent coach. How-ever. How-ever. the management intends starting the men ut or the practice ground this week. The fiasco at the Salt Lake Athletic club last onda - night when the wrestling match between Benr Thompson and Jack Curran fell through r tnp lack of attendance was in a measure ex- cted for the public has not recovered from the ckout punches delivered it last spring by a atehmaker and manager who knew as much ut the game as an Irishman does about J &ochle. Since the game was killed at that time 9 arena has been idle until last Monday. The men who constituted the old management had either disappeared from the city or given their holdings up until the entire shooting match fell into the hands of Sam Potts, who was the "angel" for the last spring's concern. He, naturally wishing wish-ing to make a little money to help fill up the hole sliced through his pocket a few months ago, proposed pro-posed to take a shy at running the game himself. None of the dub mit wallopers who have been Infesting In-festing the city for the past six months would have drawn a nine spot, which is neither high nor low to the contest so he decided to put on a match between such a well known wrestler as Thompson and Curran of Montana. The result has been seen. But $44 was in the house. It simply sim-ply went to show that the game is a dead one here until some other hands take control of the steering apparatus, and we will predict right here that in less than ten days from date there will be a new bunch in control of the arena, composed com-posed of some of the most prominent men in this city as backers, and a capable matchmaker and competent manager to head the affair, together with a string of some of the best and most popular fighters in fistianic circles. No expense will be spared to make the new project a success, and the people of Salt Lake will guaranteed the finest display dis-play of pugilistic art that has ever been seen east of the coast or west of the Mississippi. |