Show BY v W D 0 RISHEL Each year lar as the time Iliac rolls rolis around for forthe forthe forthe the like riders to take their place In the limelight the cry cr goes up that there will willbe Willbe be no 10 o riders One year ago when it was I d there then would be a great scarcity of riders the tue writer predicted that there would be more than enough to make up a II ahard ahard hard fight for the money mone hung up In InUrES purses purees UrES Last season saw as many man riders as there then has ever ver been bien in the tile city elt and the races as a whole were as good as they had bad ever eor boon bern The Time riders made lII dc more money mom in Salt Lake Jake last year ear than in any previous year ar In Its lis cycling history and the only reason the crowds fell down was as the time fight between rival tracks principally In conflicting d dates datIs tes That these riders had class Is evident from the fact that more records rrt re broken than timan In any an previous year ear in the history of racing In Salt Lake Just what hat the th outcome of the thc racing game will be In Salt Lak Lake the coming season Is hard bard to predict but one thing I Is certain and that Is that there wilt will he plenty of riders to make mak the th racing interesting It seems to be certain that horse hors racing raring as a II sport is on Its last legs and all efforts of well n meaning horsemen ho emen to keep it go gu goIng Ing are of no avail While It is the law that is 18 putting a stop to the running me t tIngs Ings on account of the betting In connee connection tion Uon with the sport it Is also true that lack of Interest by the public is responsible for the downfall of ot the harness arness game Last week the dispatches announced that the Readville track trad would DP bl e cord at aue auction liS Uon tion at once onre AS ns time the effort m mcl to sell In bonds to kep the tiie track going had failed Is probably pr bablY the cen ter of harness racing in tn the tile world and has been so 80 recognized for some ome time It is the very or fountain head of harness rac rae ing tOIled forted to close out of business for laek huk of f Interest nit ret The horsemen hO made a gallant ii fight to keep the plant going and anti antinow now that they the have given Riven up it looks bad for interest t in the sport and the few other tracks of the time country which have been able abl to hang on will probably one by one drop down and out ont Fight On next nest Friday night Fighting Dick and Fackey McFarland RIP are sched scheduled ch to meet at Los Angeles An les Whenever these two m mm men meet that should be a good but under the conditions of the match the fight in Is II bound to be more or 01 less of a Joke f kc The Tho men box ten rounds with big gloves gloven and ard po no decision Jf it 1 the th fight i Is on a par with the most of or the af fairs pulled off by the McCarey club one onema may lucy ma expect to see both men on their feet teet at the end of tIN time contest There will lIl be beho beno bebo ho no decision given and both men will be bo out with Uh the statement the nt n t day da that If tr the fight f haa gone another round I 1 would have knocked him out Should the fight end as practically all of those Los Angeles affairs do neither mans reputation will have suffered any an but their will be bo enlarged at the expense tX It of the sucker slicker pith nub nubile lie ile A real fight n ht between this pair pall would be bo interesting Fights in Ye Yc Olden Times The following from the Kansas City Times Time gives some data of how bow the fight game was conducted years ago in the Sunflower slate state May 31 M I iSTO Fight It Comes Off Today On the list of last February a prize fight came ame off at a distance of ot three miles mil from this thi city eft in Kansas near Oil Ils its bridge Today it is proposed that Tom of o New N Orleans and Bin Bitt Dough Dougherty city erty of ot Denver shall try tr their heir muscles at some IOme point in Kansas only known to time tha fighting parties and maybe not nol to them m but hut their seconds second Jim King we are told ink is to have nothing to do with the fight The T e party win will leave iee Harry Smiths Globe Saloon southeast corner comer r of Main Street and the Le this morning at 10 18 The winner of the fight light will challenge King The da dB day will be warm but the th lovers love of ot the manly mattly art will 11 no doubt have hae a good time Just imagine a pair of the present day boxers gains goiny nUt into battle under und r these cor In those thOM days dars they t fought for the tho honor and antI fak e G wem unknown Today Its IlS the box office off receipts and the th ea ier ler they the thet can get this the better It suits the fighters tighten Experts on Cycling Stars Val Yal a cycling writer of Jh th east I a match race between a Il number of ot leading American and European Euro Em European riders He has treated Salt Lake riders kindly by D mentioning about a dos doz dozen do doen dosen en of them on the American teem team A cycling paper JQ r of or Paris comes back with a select European team and in all names over knights of the wheel Henry Mayer Imported last year as tile the champion of Europe don does not appear m in it inthe the list of ot the first mep mei me named nantE b by the Par paper poper ond the matter int mt they Mayer r over there ther or did Salt Uk LaIC get a Il lemon last year Yet lie easily esil Bea B 6 a Jackie Clarke at Salt Lake but riot not at Frank Mantel Mant Writes Frank Mantell the well known welter elter welterweight welterweight weight who ho for a short time held the thi welterweight ht championship writes that he lie is to meet Jack Gardner of or Chicago nt at Sacramento on Jai Jal it 11 Mantell Manteli has h al Was been full t n of confidence ence before every fight he has had hall and this contest is no exception He writes that Gardner Is a i pretty big fellow much heavier r than him himself himself self Ctr but that he Will 11 be able to bring him down a pound or two ta He H says I will win by the knockout route before thu th twenty rounds are art up and tell my m friend to get down a bet on it Mantell is ell known locally having stopped topp d off of at Salt Lake on several occasions 1 x s C CA x a xA aA A baseball b s fan ran propounded the follow log ine query qU IY to the writer during a fanning tannin bee hee this week Why should 1903 be a n ban banner ncr ner baseball year Yf r Give Git it up was the tIle answer Because it has two nines in It IL |