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Show TRUTH SPORTING GOSSIP. One J. H. run-makin- g J Jeffords, a wrestler and miner of Park City, was given the double cross by G. C. McLaughlin and several Salt Lake sports in Park City the other night. The daily papers published the fact that McLaughlin won two straight falls from the Park City man in lightning time, but the story of how the McLaughlin crowd touched the miners for $500 was never intended for publication. It was this way, all reports say: McLaughlin, it is said by one of the insiders, told Jeffords that he was going to throw the match, and gave Jelfords $200 to bet on himself. This looked good to the miner, so he took the money and Soon found a taker for the whole amount among McLaughlins friends. The next tklng Jeffords did, report says, was to put up all of his own money on himself. Then he tipped McLaughlins proposition off to his friends and they put their money on the miner, although they knew he was no match for Mac, but the fact that the Salt Lake man had put up $200 against himself soon convinced them that he surely meant to throw the match. This started the betting game in fine shape, and the Salt Lake men who were in on the deal took everything in sight. Then came the contest, and in a few minutes McLaughlin had Jeffords pinned to the mat. The second fall was won in even shorter time by the Salt Lake man, and his associates gathered in the stakes while the Jeffords crowd wondered what they had been up against. The Salt Lake party returned the next day with their easy money and Jefford returned to the mines. lay-dow- n . Jl Jl Bicycle racing at the Salt Palace track will be one of the strongest attractions in the city again this summer. F. E. Schefski, who will manage the track already has a string of riders here for the opening races on May 29 and 30, says he will bring a number of eastern riders out during the summer months, among whom will probably be McFarland and Freeman, and both of the Lawsons. Major Taylor, the colored champion, who has been in Australia during the winter, will also be made a tempting offer to stop off here, on his way east for a short time. Some of the riders who will enter the opening races are W. G. Furman, Frank Hoffman, Clem Turville and e Eddie Smith, all of whom are favorites. Besides, these there will be a dozen or more amateurs. old-tim- Jl At least half a hundred amateur bicycle riders of the city and neighboring towns are training for the annual road race, which will be pulled off on Decoration day over the Lagoon course. The merchants of the city have donated the usual list of prizes for the event. Jl Jl man The weather caused the baseball season to be temporarily postponed during the past week. Both games scheduled for last Saturday and Sunday had to be called off, and the fans have been wondering ever since what the results would have been. Manager Christie figures that he would have had the Lobsters on the run by this time, had the games come off as scheduled. Pay day for the players Is drawing near, too, and both teams need the money, and unless the s games today and tomorrow are from the standpoint of attendance, the ghost will have to delve in the original punt before it walks. Jl record-breaker- jl jl busicouldnt get into the ness until the eighth inning, then it was tooo late. Fetters pitched a good game for Salt Lake, striking out eleven batters and allowing only one to walk. Jimmy TIeusen and Butler were the star batters for Salt Lake, each of them touching Nash of Ogden for three hits. The Lobsters were defeated in the mud and water by Christies team in Ogden Wednesday. The Salt Lake, men played their oponents to a standstill, the score being 9 to 3. Hausen had his new first baseman, Munroe, at his post, but for all that the Lobsters Jl Jl Manager Christie has released Jack OBrien, the first and one of the best men signed by the Salt Lake club. The daily papers said OBrien was let out because he had not made good. That did OBrien an Injustice. He was re- leased because of a personal clash between himself and Christie. Until the latter arrived OBrien had charge of the local team, as captain, but when Christie came as manager the two men soon differed on the question of authority and the release followed. The directors, however, did a wise thing by letting OBrien go, as no team can win games when the players are fighting one another. This trouble cost Salt Lake another good player, as Spaulding, the first baseman, took sides with OBrien, and the only way out ofthe dilemma was to release Spaulding also. Jl Jl J. E. Shaver, manager for G. C. McLaughlin, the wrestler, and "Kid Brice, the fighter, had it announced during the week that he proposes to launch a new athletic club in Salt Lake with $20,000 behind it. The announcement failed to cause the commotion In sporting circles that Shaver had expected, and all his talk of influential backing make the wise ones smile. Shaver Is trying hard to butt into jugdom via the route of the managing meal ticket ring follower. His man McLaughlin has about reached the end of his rope here, as he did in Montana, and his touted world-beatePrice, Is now working on a farm near Provo. Price has never fought a battle yet. His ring experience is limited to a few preliminary bouts, still, Shaver says, he is going to match the kid with Harry Forbes, the bantamweight champion. He assumes that Forbes will jump at the honor of meeting Price. r, . Jl Jt The first annual field and track meet between the teams representing the Universities of Colorado and Utah is scheduled to come off on the varsity campus this afternoon. The Colorado boys arrived yesterday. They say they are expecting a hard contest, as many of the records made by the Utah athletes in the recent state meet are better than any that have been seen by the Coloradoans. The U. of U. fellows are going In to win. They propose to make a better showing than in the state meet; when they lost to the B. Y. A. of Provo. . Jl 11 been offered by one of the sporting goods firms of the city, which will be presented to the winning team at the end of the series. o SCHOOL SITUATION. So much chaff and sea foam has been handed out to the public by the daily papers the past few days anent the board of education and its action regarding the employment of supervisors, principals and teachers for the next school year that a plain statement of the facts would be acceptable to the mystified people. The dailies strained themselves, and did much violence to veracity in their efforts to make it appear that the actions of the board were based on Mormon and Gentile religious lines. With two or three members of the board that may and probably did count, but not with the majority of the members, either Gentile or Mormon, and certainly not with Superintendent Christensen, who has strictly and fully abstained from even the show of discrimination on religious lines. The dropping of some special supervisors and. some teachers does not mean that those supervisors and teachers will not be given employment by the board if they desire, and it does not mean that the subjects which they supervised or taught will be dropped from the curriculum. It does mean, however, that the teachers will have to get along teaching music and drawing without the assistance and aid of supervisors. Other subjects are taught without supervisors, and while it might be and doubtless is very desirable to have the assistance of supervisors in some departments, the board of education is up against it financially, and has to retrench somewhere. The situation is such that expenses must be reduced of Mr. Wetzel or Mrs. Elliott. In fact, he has been a source of trouble for years, and why he should be sent to Sweden to study sloyd or any other fool thing supposed to be indigenous to Sweden is a mystery. If he doesn't know sloyd and sloyd is a necessity, which we dont think it is, the board ought to get somebody who knows it. Sloyd, however, we believe is a proper subject for the exercise of economy. When the school funds become larger we may have sloyd, but in the meantime we think the schools could wiggle along without it. Then, too, while Doxey is learning sloyd, why not have him acquire a knowledge of slough? The Comstock or any other of the slough universities would no doubt be glad to teach him the science of frog-gi- n g or soloing. As to Principal McKay of the Lowell school, there is no doubt of his ability and faithfulness, but it is a fact that he lacks the faculty of getting along harmonious with the super- intendents. He had trouble with Superintendent Millspaugh and more trouble with Superintendent Cooper. He delights to be in the opposition. These remarks are not made with any unkindly feeling to Mr. McKay. Truth recognizes his ability and the good, faithful work he has done in the schools for years. The programme of the board of education appears to be to reduce the number of teachers and require of those who are employed that they teach larger classes. Retrenchment is a necessity, and that may be as good a way to retrench as any. Certain it is no reduction can be made in salaries. They are too low now, especially with the prospect of a short school year in view. Of course the board couldnt please the Tribune, no matter what it did. That paper scored the board for not economy somewhere and somehow. As tn.K anw.now scores it practicing because it Is again Wetzel, he is admitted by everybody practicing economy. The board will to be an exceedingly competent super- probably never stand well with the visor of music. Moreover, he is con- Tribune unless Mr. Nelson and Mr. scientious and painstaking to a de- Dooly should happen to be members gree in his work, and his general bear- of it again. ing and conduct is such that there is o not a more esteemed and loved instructor in the schools. The board Finds Value In Hope. will probably offer him a position in A farmer of South Dakota has diswhich he can devote a part of his time covered that a of hops in to musical instruction until such time the brine when sprinkling bacon and hams are as the financial strain is so relieved to adds put pickle greatly to the flavor that the position of supervisor of of both and enables them to be kept music can be restored. Mrs. Elliotts longer. abilities as an instructor of drawing oare well known and admitted. She Dizziness. has done excellent work, but she may be required, if she remains with the The cause of dizziness or vertigo board, to do other work besides super- in looking from the top of a high vising drawing, solely on account-.-otower or building is that in looking the necessity for economy. Right here about the eye must adjust itself so is the proper place to say that there to different horizons that one is a strong suspicion that one or two rapidly of the members of the board on the gets the sensation of a lack of Mormon side have in view letting Mrs. Elliott out entirely for the pur- f pose of replacing her by Mrs. Alice Jerry McCarthy, the conaueror of Merrill Horne, their particular friend Young Gibbs, and Jack Christie, one and If this is so, it of Salt Lakes many champions, are should be resented with the utmost now wrangling over articles of agreeMrs. Horne is not.- thei equal of ment. At present it looks as though vigor. Mrs. Elliott in any way. and favoritthe men will come together, and If ism on religious or other grounds .hftv do a good fieht can be exDected. should not be tolerated. Neither man has much of a punch, but It seems to Truth that the board both are clever. Christie cant take made a great mistake and left itself half as much punishment as Gibbs did open to criticism in retaining Mr. from Jerry, but Christie figures on Doxey as supervisor of manual trainkeening out of range or most of the ing when it let out Supervisors Wetzel Irishmans blows. Of the two Christie and Elliott. It Is argued that if the nrobably has the hardest punch, he supervisor of manual training is disalso has the advantage in weight and pensed with the department, will have reach. to be dropped, while music and drawJl Jl ing may be taught without a superThe State Amateur Baseball league visor. This may be so, but why It was organized this week, with Roy should be so is not clear. Mr. Doxey MacKenzie as president. . It is com- should have been treated iii the same posed of teams from Provo, Ogden and manner as the other supervisors. Manthe Calders Park nine of this city. A ual training is just as fit a subject for schedule of games has been adopted,, the exercise of economy as drawing which, if played out, will extend well and music, and ?t is only fair to state into the summer, and every amateur that Mr. Doreys record sin:e he has player in the three cities is interested been in the employ of the board' of ig the outcome. A silver trophy has education does not compare' with those - ft- - ' T .flarltaes |