Show Sport Gossip B By F. F V. V FITZGERALD Tomorrow the bi big leagues get et in action ac tion and the tho baseball season will be formally formally for for- mally opened Tn the tho entire history of the national game there has never been the tho great public interest in it that here is now During the winter with tho big Johnson Johnson-Jeffries fight arrangements ments so 80 engrossing thero was still the paramount para mount interest in bal baseball During the summer the crowds that will witness all of the big games will be unprecedented In passing it might not be out of place to remark that Salt Lake i is more than ca eager er to sec baseball here this summer and to suggest that while the public has lias the utmost confidence in those directing di di- ng the affairs of the state baseball league there is a feeling that they are arc just a trifle slow in getting things go o ong ing ng TIle The bicycle season is in full at Newark The opening of the season was marred by the fatal accident in which Van der Vries a fast amateur was killed Manager Johnny Chapman writes that there never has been such interest in the bike bilte game gamo in the east as there is at and that a new epoch in cycling is at hand In Indica Indications ica in S Salt It Lake point to the same conclusion Thousands in Salt Lake are arc eagerly awaiting the opening of the Salt Palace track when they will see their old favorites back in the game Referee Willard Bean made his debut at tho Manhattan 1 club on Monday night Mr Bean proved that he was an adept in tho difficult task of judging judg in ing amateur boxing contests In each bout his jud judgment ment was good and his decisions de were all popular Jack Barry and Sam Langford will wilI battle five twenty rounds at Vernon tomorrow to morrow aft afternoon That is they are scheduled to fight twenty five rounds but the chances are a against the bout go going o. o in ing ten with the confidence that a dozen lacings cannot overcome overcome declares that he will hold Langford even for ten rounds and then jump in and win From this distance L Langford n ford looks like a one million shot Jack Kanner representing Jerry Mc McCarthy c. c Carth Carthy mana manager er of Maurice Thompson the Butte scrapper is in Salt Lake looking for a match for Thompson Kanner wishes to post a forfeit for Thompson to meet either Bird Leg Collins or Pete Sullivan Thompson is isa isa a hard hitter and a dan dangerous erous man in inthe inthe the ring He lIe ranks with some of the best light weights of the country and a about bout between him and either Collins or Sullivan should be worth seeing The fate of racin racing in New York may be decided today A couple of years year's ago New York passed a bill bilI that appeared ap fared to eliminate racin racing in that state However it has been found that there were many ways to evade the New York law and it 11 was decided that to abolish all it was necessary to prepare a more drastic measure A proposed law that is decidedly drastic is embodied em embodied bodied in a bill bilI now before the le legisla legislature isla- isla ture and on which a hearing is being held today Horsemen and legislators agree that if the present bill becomes a law it will certainly doom racin racing on New York tracks Tom Sharkey has announced that he will be at the ringside to challenge the tho winner of the J Johnson Jeffries-Johnson fight He says he is training now and will wilI be beall beall all ra racing in it was necessary to prepare fight He declares that his rest has been beneficial rather than detrimental and that he will be able to fight better next fall than at any time in his career Sharkey is getting etting dotty Promoter Harry Heagren has made definite arrangements for the the- appearance appearance appear appear- ance of Jack Johnson at the Salt Lake theatre on April 25 Johnson will appear ap pear in different forms of training stunts including four or six rounds ol of boxing In addition to the appearance of Johnson there will be a good athletic show including several good numbers Henry Gehrin Gehring the worlds world's middle middleweight middleweight weight champion has evidently discovered discovered ered that Yokel is a hard man to throw and he has decided to take more time timeto timeto to prepare for the match He wired this mornin morning that he would not be able to como come to Salt Lake until early in May Tho match was ori originally set for April Apri 22 The Tho extension of time will be granted Gehring and it is probable that thai the match will be held early next month |