Show co THE SPORTING WORLD The Big June Meeting at the Driving Park 1 LA B2ANCHB TO FIGHT DEMPSEY Lange and Slaile May Come Together Ihe L Blanche SVlinlon ContestCorbetts Visit to Sal Lake The Tuno meeting at the Driving park which commences on June 15 promises to be a big success Six crack runners from 1 Winneinuca Nev arrived here yesterday accompanied by Mr Dully a wellknown t trainer These flyers belong to Ed Wil Hams Tomorrow forty trotters and runners run-ners will be shipped from Denver to enter the races The track i in fine condition and some fast time will be made The racers are exercised there every morning Recently Mambrino Thorn trotted a hal niilel12K while Linderman covered tho same ground in 111 Don Ancus weut a i mile in 225 and Pomp went that distance in the same time Denny Ryan is gaining nil the time and yesterday morning ho went an easy mile in 230 I Turf Note There are now forty horses quartered at tho driving park tt the The street car line is almost completed to the racetrack and it will bo in running order for the races t t tOn t-On Tuesday there will be a match race at the park between Riley IL pacer and Jim McCord trotter forSiUO a side A number num-ber of other races are being arranged and a good days sport isassured 1 ho lUng It was whispered around town yesterday that Chancy Lange and Herbert Slade the Maoi i were likely t meet soon again in the squared circle and the rumor created cre-ated quite a flurry in sporting circles So far as could be learned no definite arrange incuts for a mill have yet been made but JSu Kelly who represents Slado admitted 1 that negotiations for a tenround contest were on and that the two big uns might meet on July 4 fit Tommy Manning who was recently defeated de-feated by La Blanche has returned to Los Angeles tiThe f I ti-The Marine by the way is matched to light Whalon at Park City next Saturday light Whalon I a heavyweight and ought to make a good contest as he fought a draw with Billy Woods of Denver sometime some-time ago fit Jim Williams the champion of Utah will probably surrender the title and retire irom the ring There is a probability that before doing so however he epgage in a contest lor point with La Blanche The Marine is in very good condition now and he thinks be could step into the ring in a Sew wee as fit as he over was in his lilc He has at last consented t meet his old enemy Dempsey l again and yesterday he clinched his determination by putting the whelp matter in the hands of Ed Kelly The latter promptly wrote to Manager Roach of the Jersey City club asking i a match between the Marine and Dempsey could be arranged to take place there and it is likely that an agreement will soon be < made Ever since La Blanche knocked him out in San Francisco Dempsey has been asking for a chance to return and the Frenchman says he can have it now A good many bard things have been said about La Blanche but it cannot be denied that he is one of the greatest middle weights in the world today and he has made a host of friends In Salt Lake who again will be glad to see him take his old position I see that Sullivan has consented to spar with Corbett at the latters benefit in San Francisco I remarked Ed Kelley yesterday yes-terday and he will mate a big mistake in doing so The champion isnt in any kind of condition and i is my belief that Corbett will take advantage of that fact and gain all the glory he can bj fighting Sullivan just a hard a he knows how to That is my prediction now wait and ste how near right I am l = s t t tOn t-On the walls of Mike Fitzgeralds gymnasium t gym-nasium hangs a photograph of a group of athletes taken here a few years ago I includes Duncan McMillan Charley Lange Duncan McDonald Charles Moth and Jim Dillon The man labeled Jim Dillon came here from San Francisco that summer on a lark He was a joviable companionable companion-able sore of a fellow and a hard fighter withal as McDonald Frank Smith and tome others discovered Well Dillon returned f re-turned to California after spending a good many weeks here leaving a host of friends and admirers who predicted a great future for nim n the ring But they never heard tell of him again and when acco unts were received here of the great fight made by Corbett Young Mitchell and other coast celebrities they wondered how it was that Dillon was never mentioned Finally aft Corbetts great fight with Kilrain at ICew Orleans photographs of him were received re-ceived here and then it was discovered that Corbett the ideal of the California sports was our old friend Jim Dillon HoI Ho-I has nearly reached the top of the ladder now and if he ever comes out this way his Salt Lake friends p will give him a royal reception t if Jere Dunn of New York is trying to arrange a fight between Iko Weir and Johnny Griffin for 1500 to take place at Hoboken within this month |