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Show TRUTH 1 games. Lagoon as a resort is a delightful place, well conducted and beautiful, but it is a long ride for a ball game. It is all right to go to Lagoou for au outing, but the fans dont want to combine a ball game and an outing. A game at Lagoon means four hours time at the least calculation, oyer thirty miles travel on the railroad, late dinner and more expense. That is why people are complaining of the arrangement which places all Sunday games at Lagoon. Sporting Gossip. disastrous one The past week was a club. It seems that for the Salt Lake hard at thev went against something and lost all three games by scandalous scores. now out The backers of the club are not with plaintive appeals to the public to give the team a to 'knock, etc. That is a pretty old chance, teams. howl as old as bum base ball to tire The veople here are beginning of town of it. Salt Lake is the main to this league it furnishes the money on its feet and it is enkeep the league titled to a team that can play ball. For several seasons past tbe town has not had a team that could come close to beatin Ogden and it begins to look as if the same old Btory would be repeated this year. People are beginning to tire reof it and if the management finds ceipts are falling off the condition may be attributed to a peanut policy that does not give the town players who can . ft ft One circumstance that helps to explain why the games are moved to Lagoon is the relationship which exists between one baseball magnate and the proprietors of the resort. This may go far toward accounting for the situation. well-kno- the team and tell where the trouble lies. Space is too valuable and anyway that is the business of the management. can contradict the statement that there is a lamentably weak team here and the management would do well to get a move on if it expects people to patronize the games in which the Salt Lake club figures. ft ft The management of the club came out in one of the daily papers last week with a long holler, setting out that Joseph and Borchers were noble patriots whose love for the game had caused them to throw themselves into the breach when all others stood aloff just so that Salt Lake might have baseball. Well; this may be all right, but the records of both gentlemen do not tend to confirm the idea. The public dont care what the motives, thoughts, impulses, or patriotism of the promters may be. What the public wants is good ball and if that is not forthcoming the public wont pay to see the No one games. ft ft While upon this subject it is proper to state that a great many fans object to going to Lagoon for Sunday ball PIPER'S pirns. M, LEVY, COMMENCING SUNDAY, JUNE 22 PROF. CLARKS DOG SHOW t Not the biprgest in the world, hut the refined entertainment lor ladies and children, TO ALL. Best. A free SACRED CONCERT By Ilauerbachs Union Military Band from 3 to t t 10 p. m. THE RENNIER BROS. Famous Aerielists, who hold their audiences in one continued stare ol admiration. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 25 DERBY DAY... MURRAY 5 i t Lessee and Manager. ONE WEEK Admission to Park 10 Cents, For which value is given in trade . Fare to the park 5 oents. ability and willingness to thump Mr. Cotten till the cows come home. Good w preliminaries have been arranged, $ ft ft ff Another fight between this fellow Sunshine and the being called Pistol is being arranged. For heavens sake arm each man with an axe. Then per- a lucky le&d both will be CrnDje killed. Oh, for the days of the Roman empire just long enough to permit this pair of tyros to fight a couple of tigers, s With rather discouraging weather conditions against them the bicycle races at the Salt Palace this year draw very well and the races as a whole are excellent. The always-populmotor events have been inaugurated and some hot races during the season are promised. It is understood that a couple of fine single motors, such as Maxwell brought from Denver last year, are due to arrive shortly and they ought to prove great drawing cards. The sprint races have all been very fair, and while no records have been broken as yet the finishes have been good and exciting, which is the main thing from the spectators point of view anyway and it is the spectator whose wishes should be consulted. t 5 s s SALT PALACE Theatre.... F. D. HEATH, Manager, 3 ft ft Provos mayor sent a communica- a a tion to the city council last Monday w asking it to pass an ordinance forbid-din- g 8 pugilism. But the sporty aggregation which rules the destinies of the 8 Garden city laid the matter on the s table and there it will doubtless stay. . ft ft Truth does not propose to dissect : wn ar 3 - $ PRECAUTION IS GOOD. Owners of horses, cattle and sheep ft w should take the precaution to insure the lives of their animals just the ft same as men and women insure 0 a theirs. Until recently Utah farmers and stockmen had little opportunity to avail themselves of this necessary precaution, because there was no live stock insurance company doing business in this state. A month ago, however, the Arkansas Live Stock Insurance company was granted a charter by Secretary of the State Hammond to extend its operations to Utah. It is an old reliable company and has a reputation for square and honest dealing. R. B. Whittemore, 12 East Second South street, Salt Lake ft ft City is the agent for Utah and Idaho. Dummy Rowan and Jim Flynn sparred He wants a few more reliable agents to work in conjunction with him. twenty tame rounds at Park City Monday night, the result, as usual, being a AT THE RESORTS. draw with no one hurt. It was a case of ones afraid and t'other dare not Sunday saw a large crowd at Saltair from start to finish, and there wasnt a blow struck that would have harmed an attended by the fine musical program the afterinfant. At the conclusion of the fiasco which was rendered-durinnoon. another fake between the Dummy and Saltair is an ideal place in which Mexican Pete, the rock pile artist, was to spend a quiet aud restful Sunday, announced for July 2. Park City is and take of the many people advantage now being beautifully worked by these fact. The absurd of beer story being fellows, but how long the people will stand for it remains to be seen. freely used at Saltair has caused some ft ft annoyance to the management. As a Clifford has gone to Butte where he matter of fact, however, it may be said beer is not used to any large exwill fight Jack Wade July 2. Wade that tent at the popular bathing resort and will probably whip him this time, and is not sold there at all. Every precaution is taken to prevent intoxicants then, ho, for another match. from making their appearance, and the ft ft i most stringent regulations are in force. was of in Cheyenne, Harry Hynes, One may rest assured that every possithe city this week and while here he ble effort will be made to keep the reand Martin Mulvey secured a date for sort strictly temperate during the seathe use of the Salt Palace saucer for son. ft ft one night during the Elks meeting. Calders Park has had a big run of Truth saw Mr. Hynes just as he was attendance during the week. Starting leaving on Wednesday and was informed by him that a boxing contest with Sunday, when about 5,000 people would be pulled off on that night and took a run to the sylvan resort, there the contestants will be men with na- has been a rush all through the week. tional reputations. "I am going to Hauerbachs band is giving some good make arrangements said Barry and music and this of itself attracts many there will be something doing in a to the concerts. short time. It will be the greatest ft ft event ever seen in Salt Lake and the The Salt Palace management will no men will be such as to draw a big doubt settle the unfortunate trouble crowd. which kept Helds hand from giving ft ft will Jack Flynn and Joe Cotton spar their proposed concert last Sunday club during the week. The public is Athletic the twenty rounds at of learning of a speedy adjustMonday night. Both men declare of ment Nothing would there will be a decision and that the be more the trouble. than popnlar Sunday concerts mill is on the dead level. They are In by such an organization as Helds band contest a and condition good and the Salt Palace is an ideal place good to in which not does of one them If result. should give them. ft ft win on his merits inside time limit, dissatisfacof whole lot a be will coolness of the weather has had The there tion. Truth urges the management a tendency to keep a good many from to see to it that there are no flukes and into the water at Saltair. There both fight w win, not to draw. Cotton going are is and condition who in is prealways those, however, he good go in, says Mr. Flynns block off even if things are a little cool and seem pared to punch his while Flynn on part expresses his to thoroughly enjoy themselves. Be- l de-sirio- us a 3 5 a the most popular and and desirable places for a family to spend an evening Is the One of Salt Palace Theatre Star features La Jesse and Camille Chester the great equilibrists and other 1 ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft s clever specialties. First-Cla- ss ft ft ft ft ft ft Vaudeville Show 5 ft fore long there will be ideal bathing right through the season. ft ft During the week at the Salt Palace there had been presented a bill of vaudeville acts and clever turns which in Chester the terested the crowds. acts which of a series in equilibrist and La of laws the gravitation, defy Jess and Camille, the great novelty team, have made themselves quite popular. The choice of two routes going and coming from Calders Park makes a most pleasing ride through different parts of the city. By changing the route one can pass along the entire east length of Liberty Park. ft ft Helds band played before an immense crowd of people at the Park last Sunday. There must have been 6,000 people enjoying the excellent program furnished by the popular band. . DONT BE FOOLISH. The National Homeseekers Association has matured this week three contracts of $1,000 each for W. B. Boyd of 542 West Second South street. Mr. Boyd has three more contracts running and intends building a terrace. Work will be begun on the three matured contracts at once. All people who want to own their homes can do so by taking out contracts with the National Home-seeke- rs Association. Its foolish to go on paying rent when you can pay for your home with less money than you pay for rent. Reason it out and see now silly it is for you to go on paying rent for the privilege of living in another mans house, aud at the end of your life have nothing to show for all the money you have paid. Consult the National Homeseekers Association, 620 Dooly Block R. B. Whittemore, who was awarded the contract some few months ago oj carrying the mails from the depots to the post office will start in on July 1. He ordered four new wagons which have just arrived from South Bend, Ind. Dick is determined to give excellent service. ft ft The Southerners, residing in the city, haye arranged for an excursion and reunion to Saltair on August 18. As usual it will be a sociable and jolly affair. |
