Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 11 | Walter Bratz's Sport Gossip

1 WALTER BRATZ I SPORT 1 a. 1 OMI O. of or the heavyweight fighters are running the tho k kaiser kniser a cl do dorace S SOME race In the unpopularity contest j jT UK JIE wives of or many Country club golfers can become T now no I If r f their husbands husband Join the arm army they will not nol miss th the thenny on any snore more than they du do luring during the tho Rolf golf season J JO 1 Nl Nl 3 reason wh why tIle the drafted hall ball IIla arc going coins Ohl Into inlo t 0 U shipbuilding leagues is to help Uncle Sam Sani Cnn you youK what tho other r rca reason on is is So to o can CIn we c. K T 1 EXT weeks week's hi bis lk trap t in this thiN city promises t toft N the real thing Secretary Bert Dain has aS assurances fro bu throughout the West es that th they ff l 1 1 lea leading ln un bugs s the all be herr hero Th prizes ar aro quite alluring this year ear and It fellows are arc showing more mor pep pen lI than before an any of or tho tit Dilate ments mentH we can remember A AI 1 HAD T D quite quil a n pleasant visit yesterday a with j E. E r C. C Boucher p l J I agent of oC the California fish an and game Samo c commission lon Mr BOUChas Bouch BOUd Im has been In Utah on a vacation an and has not lIot missed an tn p opp to get ct a retina TUna full Cull as Bugs Ba Baer r says sas ll He watched Jr Smith an and his assistants lake take spawn from Crom out the icy waters of or Jo Kf flake f lake and he IC also aso visited our OUt hatcheries Mr 11 Boucher found man thin things s connected with Utah's fish and game ame which be hr commend hIghly and from Crom which he lie copied i ideas for Introduction into Inlo Cal fornia Cornia but hut he also saw much which he criticised quite severe severely I n u believes that our deer law Is all wrong and he as astounded at ti It absolute lack of or prote Uon lon for the thc fish ish which wander wandel from the n mai streams into farmers' farmers irrigation ditches He represents a state i which the fish ish and game d department heds herds owe their positions t qualifications which have been favorably passe passed upon by hy cl ci service er regulators In other words the thc fish an and game department CJ nt California can do thin things and it Is not forced to listen to the tic pratt of or a hundred an and one fish and nd game doctors who because le they once spent a day a on Willow creek or at Strawberry lake inke that they have A right to horn into the legislature to show the thc fi CI fiand fh and ganio game ame commission Its Ils business It Is interesting indeed to lo tato tal ta to a man who represents a fish ish and game same department which h. h such powers Mr lr Boucher's criticism against Jain t our deer law is tl th ih the seasons should not have ha been closed but that instead U Uk Ut should have ha game am ic reserves er In which to nurs nurse this diminishing species of or animal He believes that the California sy tern tem of oC laving open seasons on the of or its reserves r cs gives g tt u boys hoys ample sport and that it sells man many licenses es which po go a lorway lor br way toward sup supplying funds for Cor tile the department He considers o oi ou lack of or fish screen facilities disgraceful and no sportsman in Uta liLa will vili disagree with him Compel the Irrigators to put screens o 0 otheir otheir their ditches itches he lie rl rightly says He lie also sus suggests ests two licenses one for fishing and another for hunting a very cry good idea 1 strikes us To our humble way of ot thinking it would well repay th sportsmen of or the state to bring to Utah a man of oC Boucher's ence the next time our fish fIsI and game butchers congregate tc at th tb statehouse lie mi might ht be able to put the skids under some of ot th silly prattle about fish and game ills which we are arc forced to liste to every two years ears without results r HE new tight right or work order from Washington has set et al J T rr baseball men to thinking Will Viti it include the national game ame ameIs is the much mooted question Personally we do not that it will vill tako taka in or organized baseball an any more than It hi hithe hithe the show game Men Ien like John K Tener for example do not belie belier that it ft will wilt Baseball men are prepared to comply If It ashin toT toi decrees that they sho ld shut down but until they are re asked t t. refrain retrain from doing oln so so they will undoubtedly undoubted run John K Tenet is bl big enough h to give any of or his public utterances high ns Any man who IH has been governor o of one of ot the great exponent states stales of at this Union mi mr st have hav ideas comman commanding inS inS' respect when h he issues them Mr Ir Tener recently gave out a statement the gist of ot which s that baseball Is rea ready y to close down own if our government deems it necessary but he t Iris ts 8 also expressed the tho belld that present circumstances do 10 not demand such drastic action He expresses the conti confident dent belief that baseball in Its or organized form fonn shou should d be e continued con eon for tor the reason that the people want it and need it tt Mr t. Tener what is accepted as a fact that the best mea means o 0 obtaining physical recreation and aid relaxation is to seek seck and t nt some form of outdoor sport and because baseball is such an He idt sport but principally because it Is an American i idea ea he urges a ato ato ato to participate In the game ame who can and amI those who cannot to lo ta tal the tho time to Itne's baseball contests He says that the American game of baseball never has had had equal and that it I- I hardly conceivable that It will have ha