Show The 1000 Game Editors Herald S The following appears in the Ogden Og-den Herald of Monday and invites just a few comments which we cordially cor-dially give below with your permission per-mission EDITORS HERALD In reply to the challenge of 1000 from the Olympic club we will say we have received no such challenge and deem It a bluff aa we had previous to our last gmp offered to play for greet gate receipts which was not accepted ana it they will promise to practice faithfully we will agree to play forgross gate receipts and three hundred dollars Eespsotfully ATHLETIC BASEBALL CLUB The Olympic club takes occasion to assure its Ogden rival for the championship that no bluff was intended in the challenge for a 1000 purse game and gives further assurance assur-ance that the amount Salt Lakes part of the purse is at hand ready to be deposited at any time mutually mutu-ally designated The statement with regard to gross gate receipts is entirely wrong and furnishes abundant abund-ant evidence that the Heralds article was not sanctioned by the Athletic manager as that gentlemans reputation repu-tation is too well known here to give place to the suspicion that this assertion was authorized by him The great magnanimity which seems to characterize the Ogden team is reciprocated by their Salt Lake friends at least to this extent that we are willing to consider the distressed financial position of our rivals and if actually necessary we will be satisfied with making the purse as suggested in the foregoing article and accept their own proposition propo-sition trusting our Athletic friends will make it convenient to play on or about September 20th Kespsctully OLYMPIC B B CLUB |