Show SPORTING SPLINTERS The announcement of the fall meeting of the Salt Lake Driving Park association appears ap-pears in Tm HERALD today The meeting will be in all ways an attraotiv ono and 15000 purses aie offered Tho rain yesterday killed the baseball gamo that nas to have wound up the series between the Denvers and Salt Lakes I is to be regretted that the issue has not been more successful Mr Coffin Mr Evaps and Mr Groesbeck who are said to back the guarantee fund to bring the San den Electrics to this city worked liko beavers to make an interesting series of games and they will probably have to go down in their pockets for their pains The games were held under unfavorable auspices aus-pices and except on one day Sunday the attendance has been little short of discouraging discour-aging There has been some adverse com i ment on the home team the charge being made that it did not represent the strongest nine that could have been selected out of the material in i the city Those who made this critizisim did not stop to think that the I players are not all gentlemen of leisure Busby and Lloyd especially are engaged I where their occupations interfere with i their playing regularly and though they tried hard to get off and some influential influen-tial sportingjmen interceded for them they were unable to appear in more than one or two games They could not be blamed for refusing to throw up a job for the sake of playing ball though their presence on the field might have made the result somewhat different We do not think with some that it would have given a majority of the grimes to Salt Lake With Lloyd Busby or anyone else ia Salt Lake added to the home nine the Denvers still had the advantage ad-vantage that comes from constant practice prctce and perfect organization |