Show I Feeling Fine Thank Y You Oll I q AI LAI LAKE i Is n not nt t disposed ed to quarrel I k U with its its' baseball luck hick though the close of or the season finds this premier r city of or the Coast league league- In third place instead of or the I coveted first expected at the outset While I the flag flag- for tor 1916 has gone to a coast city 1 t of some pretensions other coast cities of or I I even more mort pretensions have taken Salt Lakes Lake's dust dust wh whenever nc er thc they were were close I I I enough enogh to the center of ot disturbance to know I f thc they were vere In a race Everybody would have bee been more conI content con con- tent tenC If Ir the high h hopes of or the beginning orthe of or I the season eason had been realized but there Is 1 L l. fair degree desree of or comfort In having modified d' d dIthe I Ithe the insufferable self esteem n of or such am- am b villages as San Francisco and Port Port- land They have been reduced to their proper places on the map and and we ye e do not doubt the they will find tho the experience salutary salu salu- I tary For coast settlements th thy they y arc are good towns Thc They have their points and It Is Impossible to withhold a modicum of adi ad- ad i I for or them but It Is proper they bo ho t severely rebuffed for Imagining I th themselves es in Salt Lakes Lake's cl class 1 I With the tho of the stove Ica league for the Coast le league gue b baseball can continue an season throughout hout the win win- inter in ter There are e certain imitation fans trading trad trad- Jag ing an on a n reputation the they do not deserve who turn to other concerns when the tho flags come com down in fa the league parks and the ground- ground keeper resumes his winter solitude But the real fan Ean Can who knows kno ba baseball is 18 the only serious business of ot life liCe and and grunts with disgust disgust dis dis- dis gust gust when an anybody bod refers to it St as a mere pastime conducts a continual post-mortem post I t I Salt all all winter with a n huge huge satisfaction no nothing can alloy I Nineteen s seventeen is away over O there thero I somewhere across ho mountains but baseball base base- ball all preparations for Cor it are already under I way A manager apparently C capable cerI 1 I t ripe experience i is s on tho the Job He In pay naI feel el assured that Sa Salt t Lake ake is ia e eagerly awaiting the tho result of or his wI winters winter's plans alS al- al S V though it may mar be he seemingly ah absorbed In such a n. trifle as aim earning Its daily dally bread and an nn occasional buckwheat cake calce Lako Taboo mn may b be a n. mile high But oven even when Its It's frozen over r In winter it cant can't keep up with the ico Ice mans man's prices |