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Show TRUTH ' SPORTING GOSSIP. L- Up to the time Truth went to press yesterday afternoon, the Salt Lake baseball team had won one game and Of course this lost two to Boise. crowd a playing gave the anvil chorus None of them neglectgood excuse. ed the chance either and the manner in which they Jumped on to the unfortunate Salt Lakers was a terror to listen to. 1 This, too, when Salt Lake had a shut out for Butte to its credit and when it lost the two games with Boise through no particular lault of its own. But the knockers gang would not be satisfied if it won every game this If such a thing were possiseason. ble, it would then clamor for shut outs. If it was within the range of physical team performances to shut out every associa-woul- d knockers in the league, the the then demand that fellows other the pitchers keep hits. If from making any base the do then that, the pitchers could man pounders would insist upon every in the opposing teams being fanned out The knockers are never satisfied. Other towns in other leagues have gladly supported their ball teams when BANKERS. WALKER BROTHERS ,.BAWKER9t Established 1858 Salt Lake City, Utah General Banking Business Transacted. Safety Deposit Boxes For Rent A .1. ,lf UTIODL m BANK REPUBLIC 8. DEPOSITORY. U. FRANK KNOX, JA8. A. MURRAY. OF BUTTS. W. - F, ADAMS, - PSIBIDBNT VlOB-PBB- - S. OaSHIBR S300 CAPITAL PAID IN OOO Banking In all its branches transacted. Exchange drawn on the principal oltles of Europe. Interest paid on time deposits. - .ers. - 'fcr i.. 7 P1 Fight May Be Called Off. JudcIunroe and Jim Jeffries may not meet before the Yosemite Ath-eti- c club June 1 to decide the worlds championship, after all. At least it s certain that Eddie Graney will not )6 the referee, notwithstanding tho 'act that he is named in the articles cf agreement, as Harry Pollock, manager of Young Corbett and Jack Mun-rodeclares he would call the fight off before he would give Graney another opportunity to rob one of his w- - e Ieculiariiies tliat othei places have not. Now let us give the boys a chance. The weather is cool yet and everyone knows it requires hot days for good ball playing. Give the boys a chance to get the stiffness out of their joints. There is time enough. We are not up against any better teams than our own. Patronize the game and when you sit on the grandstand, yell like Indians for the home team. Dont sit on a chair and throw bricks. Boost. is It the knocker who has kept this men. town back for years. The mean, dirty, whispering, despicable, Gans Wants to Fight Britt. knocker; the fellow who A1 Herford, manager of Joe Gans, never boosts for anything or anyone the lightweight champion of the save himself. posted 1,000 on behalf of Gans, Lets all join the chorus and show world, a match with Jimmy Britt, to make the players we are behind them. Give them every chance. If there are who recently won a decision over weak spots the management is going Young Corbett on the Pacific coast, to find them out and replace them with for the lightweight championship of better men; if any of the boys get gay the world. Herford says that Gans they will be called down properly. will make 133 pounds at 5 p. m., or But boost. he will do 134 pounds ring side for J the Pacific coast champion. The fight game seems to be at a o standstill for a time, but there are Walthcur Making Money. soon. Bobbie It of Walthour, the pace follower, something doing prospects decided is all right to wait for a few weeks not to return to America has tween bouts, because then the appe- until next fall, and has sent for his tite is stronger and a rushing contest family. Mrs. Walthour and his three is better appreciated. children will join him in Paris shortly. & Walthour is making money more rapJack Clifford has accepted the idly in Europe than he ever made it in ticn of instructor Thompsons before. In his races he receives from $500 to $1,000, and after another month he will have foumciai five races Bold. Forbes Horses to Be every week. This to Walthour is far Even since the death in Boston of more attractive than racing on two one in Atlanta. J. Malcolm Forbes, the millionaire tra moter-all trotting orse breeder, which occurred Jan. 19, there has been widespread paced rac speculation as to the disposition which would be made of his stud, and Leaves American Turf. rumors been have sorts of puball Reiff, the famous jockey, Is lished about the matter. It is now at Johnny his home in' the suburbs of San definitely settled by the announce- Jose, Cal. He ..says he will never ment that the entire collection, with again he seen on an American track, the exception of three animals, which, but that he ang his brother Lester for stated reasons, cannot well be in- will go into the business of training cluded, will be sold at auction in Bos- and raising blooded stock in this ton next month. country. McCaffrey Would Fight Mitchell. e Dominick McCaffrey, tho middleweight, created no little sensation in sporting circles by issuing a cliallengo to Charley Mitchell, who is I will fight now in this country. old-tim- Mitchell under any conditions. I beat him onco and I am confident that 1 can take his measure again. o e, low-dow- n, ed ,sTg Billiard Record to Slosson. Georgo Slosson, in a game of eighteen-inch balkline billiards, two shots in, broke tho worlds record with an unfinished run of 291. The best previous run of 222 was made by Ora Mornlngstar, an American player, in Paris. .'I The Ways of a Baby. A father of much experience says: Wash a baby clean and dress him up real pretty and ho will resist all ad- vances with tho most superlative crossness; but let him cat molasses, gingerbread and fool around the coal hod for half an hour and he will nestlo his dear little dirty faco close up to your clean shirt bosom, and be Just the lovingest, cunningcst little rascal in all the world. o Australians Will Come. A communication has been received by James E. Sullivan, chief of tho department of physical culture at tho St. Louis exposition, from the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia, stating that that organization will be represented at the Olympic games, probably by a team of four men, including one swimmer. LYON & CO. o W. 8. J. J. MoCORNICK. PRBSIDENT Fitz Will Meet All. Bob Fitzsimmons says: The only DALY. VICB-PRIS- T. 8 H. LYNCH, MANAQBR A 810. Trust Dial) Savings & Co. SALT LAKE CITY. CAPITAL PAID UP SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED $150,000 PROFITS.. $44,000 Interest paid on deposits. Loans on approved security. Acts as executor, admin- istrator. guardian, assignee, receiver, etc. Title Guarantee Department: Iusures Titles and makes Abstracts. PUlilAIAllllAliliiAlAAAllAAliiiAniiHiiiillllAlg Utah Light & Power Co. INSTALLATION. ELBOTMOAUl Salt Lake Water Salt Lake Steam Ogden .. .. ...... ...... .Water Leased Plant Water AB. 400 Salt Lake Ogden H. P. 1500 H. P. 5000 H. P. 2000 H. P. 2400 MCu. Ft. Dally. Cu. Ft. Daily. 60 M 7 8. MAIN STREET. SALT CITY. LAIC LnmHiwwnnmTTffTvyvTivTTTTnmmvmvra ii BBAVEN O MURRY dfc TRIO OP STEO RATH S Office BOB AUBRBAOH BLDQ. Tel. 1120--y Res. Two Auto Records Broken. Two worlds automobile records have been broken, according to a dispatch from Nice. M. Rigolly, driving a 100 horse-powe- r car, built for the international cup race covered a mile, C In the standing start, in 0:53 reason I ever lost the championship was because of my hands failing to serve me. I have given them special care of late and I regard them as being in shape to do more effective punishment than ever before. With this assurance I want to say that I stand ready to make a match witb any reputable fighter in the world, barring no one. I will light Corbett at any time ,at any place, and for any amount that any substantial club may offer, in this or any other 3-- 5. kilometer (3,280 feet) race for the Rothschild cup, with a flying start, Rigolly covered the distance in 0:25. o IIlfCk-Gnid- n-y-w T . , ' . g Works. Revendklo Rug Made From Your Old Carpet. METZ PURE ICE . d HOSHELLS TICKET OFFICE - et I r e Fluff-Ru- Belmont on Turf Again. Perry BelL. jnts colors will be seen Carpet Cleaning. again on the big tracks. He has few 236 W. SOUTH TEMPLE ST. or no horses fit to race now, but as he says a good horse always appeals to him it is possible he will buy sevBattle. Another Have May eral very shortly. He has the great G6e SALT LAKE ICE CO. bed twenty-rounThe great Ethelbert in the stud now, and will fight tween Young Corbett and Jimmy hardly wait for the get of the sire to Britt still continues to be the prin- mature before returning to the turf. MADE FROM DISTILLED WATER Or ciple topic of conversation on the coast. As the matter stands at presEgan Is Handball Champion. PHONE 43. J. C. LYNCH. Manajcr. satisfied. is ent, neither pugilist Michael Egan of Jersey City won Young Corbett claims he was defraud-ed,an- the handball championship of the Britt is of the opinion that he world by defeating James Fitzgerald AAiAAAiiimiAiAimmmaammiiAAiinAm can knock the Denver fighter out in of San Francisco in the second series another contest. Such a battle is now of games. Egans scores were 19, 21, G looked upon as a certainty. Harry 21. Fitzgeralds scores were 21, 11, Pollock and Young Corbett, after a 70. o conference, offered to bet $10,000 on the- result of a second battle. 221 MAIN STILEET Another Foreign Wrestler. I BUY AND SELL RAILROAD Another foreign TICKETS wrestler, Emil as the Italian Demon, Can aave you IS to SI0 on each Silva, known Will Play Polo on Wheels. ticket Member American Tick-to wants some meet of American the of New York German wheelman Broken Association. wrestlers. There are have decided to send a team of bicycle heavy-weig. ESTABLISHED : F. H. GROSHELl, ingr polo , players to the St, Louis expos! still a few countries In Africa and : xx ims xx Asia to b beard from mmtlmnnnmninnimniiRnnnmi ht Tel. 1254-- z Salt Lake Ail |