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Show TRUTH. The Denver team arrived Friday morning and were royally entertained by the Y. M. C. A. until Sunday morning, when they left for home. Sporting Gossip. jy the Denver The big game between C. A. M. Y. club and the The Y. M. C. A. a score of 29 to u .hllt out easily by if Denver could have and it looked as more lf desired. The rnade as many up in most disap- -$ Y M. 0. A. snowedwas confidently e. pointing form. It the the additional practicelinei nected thatand men the in new the team had the team strong llt would make to at least give the visitors a the tussle but the game showed that not and outclassed als were clearly In he mentioned in the same breath Wheel club. After the game n fX r,icontsXr! Tv I conceded weight, but at that should have made a better showing. The public had been treated to talk of "practicing team work for a month past, but the performance of the home team last Saturday showed that the Y. M. C. A. did not have anytwork. hing that looked like team There was no Interference ond on the few occasions when the home team made small gains the work was done by the man with the ball alone. Once in a while a hole would be opened in Denvers line, but at such times the Y. M. C. A. man with the ball failed to take advantage of it. It looked as if the home team trusted wholly to luck and most of the men did not seem to know what they were expected to do when the ball was snapped. Their defense was no trouble to Denver at all. The line was helpless against Denvers onslaughts and holes as big as a house were torn through the Y. M. C. A time and again, while Denvers backs got by the ends almost at will. The Denver men remarked that it was like playing marbles, and it was certainly that easy for them. The Agricultural College and the University of Utah are due to play here this afternoon. The U. of U. has made everything look easy so far and the A. C. has a similar record for the season. The latter team has been under the care of George Richards for the past few weeks, and may spring some surprises. The U. versity month. Mort Allen was about the only one on the Y. M. C. A. side who played an effective, heady game all the time. He and Christy were the only men who made gains at all for the Y. M. C. A, and they had to do it by individaul work without help from the rest of the team. If the team had been all Allens the game might have been different. The second team of the University defeated the Collegiate Institute in a close game by a score of 5 to 0 Friday was as follows: afternoon. The line-u- p University. Mathews 1. 1. 1. Wallace Leaver Muir t g c r. g Hume r. t r. e Kingsbury Hadley Forester q. b 1. h Colleglates. Saxton Larsen Truxel Thompson Traver Yager Hoagland Neilson Hanks Tolman ..............r. h. .......... 3rainard f. b Manning Petty The officials were: Wade, referee; Cline, umpire; Stahl and Billings, linesmen. The grade school teams of the city schools have organized a league to play for a silver cup donated by C. S Walter Seare, Bassett, Allen and Wilkes. The series will consist of ten Christy did all the good tackling and Lynch and Hopfenbeck were the only games, and contests will be held each men who could break Denvers line. Wednesday and Friday until the series Thomas was the frost of the game, to is played out. The teams comprising the league are the Oquirrh, Webster, the surprise of every one, it having Wasatch, Union and Lowell. been expected that he would distinguish himself. He fumbled about every time the ball was passed to him Another fight was pulled off last and carefully avoided In the mixing Plays. Week, the contestants being Clem Tur bicycle rider, and ville, the The only show the Y. M. C. A. had Dick Ford, who claimed Butte as his was to kick and was a fight sure enough, and they did not seem to home. It to satisfy any one, but enough bloody realize this until near the close of the of scientific boxing the from standpoint game. When they did take it up they it was a ludicrous exhibition. Ford gave a poor exhibition, several proved to be about the poorest excuse losing on yards three or four bum The for a fighter that has been seen here absence of Macandrew as punts. a kicking for many a day, but had plenty of grit proposition was noticeable and if he and had not given up until the police naa been there it is stopping the fight in the possible that Den- suggested ar s goal At that time Turville round. might have been in danger fourth or block about knocked off, Fords had t'vlre as the game went, the6 twice in the down him knocked h'ad never )vas any probability that round and would have finished the ball him in would get over. was so decision the another punch, was as follows: n w1eUI One of the Cl to Turville. cYMgiven A properly Meins well-kno- nrandenburg WhSl Caley Smith PowAfa t - Mjir6tts Baultman g... Schuler, B Carman Jennings Lynch Hopfenbeck ..... ...... r. te. ............ . 1- - Walker b h... Christy, h PaieB b Bassett Seare Thomas Thomas Allen dell referee; W. F.red GeonreonV. UmPire; D. A. Callahan and ' A- - L- - Thomas, Touch- linesmen. downs- Webster, 2 PaleV kicked- h Walker 2. Goals BlffkhHSr1, 1. wfe nlluer, Goals missed: Walker Paid attnvLhalvea: 25 and 20 minutes. 714. HIS FIRST APPEARANCE. Sol Smith Russell spent most of his boyhood life at Jacksonville, it was in the opera-hous- 111., and there that he made his "first appearance on any stage. The veteran actor really began his theatrical career by playing circus in a barn, at which admission fees of five pins were charged, but it as a performer in an amateur enof U. will play Stanford Uni was for the benefit of the wotertainment here some time during the men of Jacksonville whose husbands Knowlton , 6 i. ht Scud-enoug- g-a- The Y. M. C. A. i from Jimmy Bums, a heavy-weigSpokane, is in the city, and a match between him and Dummy Rowan has been arranged for November 15th at the Salt Lake Athletic club. Burns is a inely-bui- lt man, and if he has any ijreat amount of science he will proba-jl- y beat the Dummy to death. Both are strong fellows, and the go ought :o be worth seeing. Bulletins from the Jeffries-Ruhli- n fight, which occurs in jer, Johnson, Lawrence and Hall. The San Francisco the same night, will he Hne-u- p was as follows: given out by rounds at the ring side. Salt Lake. Ogden. Snow c Bird r. g Smith Willard Bean has written to Salt Farr, Brown Lake that (he has Issued no challenge :::::::::::::::?: 1. g Anderson to Christy and says he did not know Knapp 1. t Bero Tracy a man as Christy on 1. e Johnson Wheeler there was such read he earth in the Salt Lake until Lawrence had received a that papers b Adams Christy Corey q. 1. h Bean says he Keogh Hyde challenge from Bean. r. h.... Moore, Higson has at present no intention of entering Lessenger Scudder f. b Brown the ring, but may come back in the Officials Goshen, referee; Smith, umand fight a few matches for the pire; linesmen, Scudder and Murphy; spring of wiping out the memory of purpose timekeepers, Nuttle and Dyke. Time of the Weday-Bean fiiasco at Provo. 20 minutes. halves, out Saturday Denver team. ulation as to was not to 0 at Denver the week before of increasing the made for the purpose Interest in the game here last Satur- day as it was readily apparent that the Wheel club could run up almost team. any score on the Salt Lake preliminaries between Green and Davis, Extra copies of back numbers of Tan th can two strong boys, was a feature of the had at the office, 11 and 12 Central Bio ck. be evening, and it Is likely a match between these boys would prove a better card than the last main event put on. The Salt Lake High School was shut 12 to 0 by the Ogden High School at Ogden Saturday afternoon. The Ogden boys outpointed the Salt Lakers generally, but the game was pronounced the best exhibition of the kind ever seen 4n Ogden. Twice the Salt Lake team came within a few feet of scoring, but was held up at the 'danger iine by e Ogden team. The stars of were Anderson, Keogh, the h proved a walkover for 2& 15 wn e were away at war that he was first seen in public. During one of his recent visits to Chicago Russell told the story to the Rev. William Rutledge, who was one o'? the famous chaplains in the army during the Civil war, and who after-warbecame one of the organizers of the Grand Army of the Republic. Rutledge was in Chicago at the time, delivering a lecture on the battle of Gettysburg, and when his address was completed he was accosted by a stranger, who called the minister by name, and introduced himself as being a "sort of lecturer." The stranger was quickly recognized as Russell, and after the pair had become reminiscent the account of Russells first appearance followed. "Do you remember that sawbuck brigade we boys organized during the war? asked the actor. There was your son George, my brother Boh, and several others besides myself. We wanted to help the soldiers wives widows, we called them, although their husbands were not dead so we went around sawing their wood, and doing all kinds of chores for them. After we had been at that quite awhile it became pretty tiresome, and we began to scheme about for some other way to be helpful, without so much work and trouble for ourselves. Some one I guess it was I," added the actor, apologetically "suggested that we give a benefit entertainment in the opera-hous"That just suited the fancy of the entire sawbuck brigade, and after a good deal of discussion as to what the nature of the affair should be we beWe gan preparations for the show. had not done anything before in that line except play circus up in the old Hamilton barn on East State street, and we did not know just what to do, but finally all of us 'learned a piece, or got up some sort of an act. I dont know just what it was I did. It was some recitation of the awkward country boy style, and I was not called ds PURE RYE WHSKEY. The Sadler Mercantile Co., LIMITED. 223-22- 5 8. Main 8t.f FOR UTAH. SOLE AGENT8 Powers, Straup & Lippman Attorneyb-at-La- w EAGLE BLOCK, Corner Second South and West Temple Sts. ROBERTSON & CO., PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS. Collections and advertising a specialty. Expert Accountants, Notaries and Typewriters. Books experted and kept by the month. In corporation papers drawn up to suit. All classes of insurance placed. We represent Delaware Incorporators Trust Co. Write us. 44 Central Block, Salt Lake City. Box 119. . WALKER BROTHERS, Bankm Salt Lake City, Utah. A GENERAL Established i860. BAMKIiTbOsTnESS TRMSACTED. e. Safety Deposit Boxes for Rent. upon to show any great ability at acting, butjit was hard enough as it w'as, and kI was glad enough when it was over. We made a lot of money for the widows, anyway, and that was all we were after." Soon after his appearance in this amateur entertainment Russell joined the Berger family, the original "Swiss and traveled with them for some time, playing a minor part. Bell-Ringer- s," |