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Show i ' m Sporting Life. Hyj3! THE HELENA RELAY RACE. Bi ' I H jrfjf ' The Montana State Fair, just closed at Helena, !'v had a feature this year which eclipsed everything j IIS, else presented at the fair. This was a relay race 'ii J f of twenty miles, four miles a day, between lady ijrt contestants. Hi I Three sixteen-foot square box stalls were put hi up beside the grandstand. At the end of each Hllli f mIIe the rlders had to rIde Into these stalls and HLj change mounts. They rode man-fashion and wore Hi 1; 4! divided skirts. The time of each mile was noted. mY 1 When the full twenty miles were ridden the time Kji ' of the separate miles was footed up and the prize -i awarded to the one who had covered the distance H, j in the least time. That It was a race for keeps is Hjjik ' made clear by the time made and further by the fllll! fact that for tlle whole twenty miles the fastest Hlsnl'ii tImo was but 8 seconds less than the slowest. HflfJj Considering that the riders had to make fifteen Ii A changes of mounts, the result is wonderful. Then ii 4 the whole time made was race horse time. The 'Hf ! ! winner's average time for a mile, including the Mtav ' fifteen changes for the whole twenty miles, was Hj '1 2:13Vi. Interest In this especial race grew day Hf ' by day until on the last day the immense crowd Hi ,' was well nigh frantic with excitement. The offl- k , c time for the whole twenty miles, as prc- L ' , claimed by the judges, was: Miss Incker, 44:28; H;; ; 'Miss Gotts, 44:31; Miss Parker, 44:37. Mil if - Helena paper says the relay race was a Hif f ! great one and "in point of enthusiasm outdid any Ki ' thing over before seen in Helena." One can well Knlf believe it. That the girls rode for blood and tha Hffi their horses were selected with great care, there Hflij can he no doubt. H Iljj It would be a good thing to add a lady's relay H f race to the next year's State Fair for Utah. There H?f certainly should be as good riders and as swift m ''j I' horses in Utah as in Montana and it goes without R J debate that such a race would break or make the H a T fortune of every sport in town. H I i A staid old friend wrote us about it the other H ! i day after the races closed and he was still wild HHfff over It. His definition of it makes the Ben Hur Hraff race look like 30 cents. HlK t ' : It is good In another way. A few such races would educate some men, who need the education, the "difference between blood horses and common stock, and what a difference a fair mixture with common stock makes on an extreme trial. The fastest mile made in any straight race on the Helena track last week was 1:44 and yet these lady riders making fifteen changes avoiaged less than half a minute per mile of equalling the unhampered un-hampered race. & ( The preliminary games of the big Eastern football foot-ball aggregations have shown that Yale probably has the better team of the big four. The only weakness is at center and men are being tried out daily for this position. The University of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania has made a remarkablly good showing and Columbia apparently has as strong an aggregation aggre-gation as last year. Both Harvard and Princeton have played in such form as to Indicate that they will have to show great improvement if they are to win in the great annual struggle. Comments from Eastern critics who watch gridiron affairs give the impression that old Eli will again drench the scarlet plumes at Harvard. & & & Jack Clifford, the lightweight who has many admirers in Salt Lake, greatly disappointed his friends by the indifferent showing he made in his recent fight at Helena with Kid Fredericks. The Miner says that either the Buffalo boy has improved im-proved wonderfully or Clifford has gone back in the same ratio. Both ol these lightweights went down to defeat before Herrera, but It took Biddy Bishop's Mexican longer to do the trick with Clifford Clif-ford than it did with Fredericks. In fact, Herrera Her-rera acknowledged that Clifford was one of the toughest men he had encountered. Naturally Clifford Clif-ford was the "dope," but from reading the report of the fight the Impression appears that Clifford was quite "dopy" and stupid to say the least, in his encounter with Fredericks. Clifford was clearly clear-ly outgeneraled, and seems to have depended upon his wicked punch, which he waa unablo to land. After Fredericks had worn him down and got him into a weakened condition, he showed no semblance sem-blance of gameness, and did not have a punch left in him. It was really hard to convince the admirers of Clifford that he would take such a beating from Fredericks. The latter has shown good fighting metal, and appears to be the best in his class in this neck of the woods. ) JX John Hertz, the manager of Benny Yanger, In commenting on the recent fight of his protege and Hanlon, says: "Hanlon is a tough little fellow, and can take a world of punishment, but he can never win from any one by a just decision because he can't hit. He hasn't the punch necessary to make a champion of him. I doubt whether Young Cor-bett Cor-bett can lick him, for he can take an awful drubbing, drub-bing, but It's a cinch he can't whip Corbett nor any other good boy. He Is clever in covering up, but that lets him out. His best weight now is 130 pounds and he's only 18 years old. Hanlon is a true lightweight, he is not a feather at all. I doubt whether Corbett will meet him on account ac-count of the disparity in weights. "By this blemish on Yanger's record Young Corbett is given another chance to sidestep him, but, mark my word, both Forbes and Yanger will land at the top of his heap again. Neither of them is 'all in. " t5 Terry McGovern will not be able to do any more fighting for several weeks, owing to an injury in-jury to his left hand which he sustained in his fight with Billy Willis at Philadelphia on Saturday. Satur-day. This fact, find nothing else, says McGovern, was the real cause why he did not knock Willis out. Terry had the member treated at a Brooklyn Brook-lyn hospital. The physician told the ex-champion that it would be necessary for him to have a complete com-plete rest for at least a month. McGovern was to have met Jimmy Briggs at Boston Wednesday night, but this "go" has been called off for the present. McGovern, though, expects to be able to meet Briggs by October 20. & & & "Kid" Barney, of Park City, wants to match his man, Tommy Markham, with some Butte lightweight, Howard Opie preferred. & & The distinct victory of the Boston Americans over the Philadelphia Nationals in their recent series of championship games was a surprise to the talent, who believed generally that' the Phillies Phil-lies were invincible. It was a great moment for Dlneen when in the last game, cheered by thousands thou-sands of admirers, he struck out the great Hans Wagner. & 48 i Jeffries has gone east to astound the world as a theatrical star. The stage will thereby gain a great deal in bulk and while we are resting" from pugilistic notes about the man who is "alone in his class," the matinee girl will have a chance to indulge in rhapsodies over the hefty boiler-maker. boiler-maker. Jn 5 J Jack Tarpey's familiar name was observed in the line-up of the Stanford team in its recent preliminary pre-liminary game with the Reliance lads. He is at his old position as left half-back, and the work of the old favorite this season will be closely watched by his many Salt Lake friends. |