| Show THELAST LAST I SAD RiTES Devoted Fans Wearing Sack Sackcloth cloth loth and Ashes i SIGN D AT WARRANT lV I I AND OGDEN TAKES l KEs UT mAHO LEAGUE PENNANT n ignominious death of the Utah Idaho ldah league season season and anci perhaps th it Itself lf at Ogden last Jast Tuesday Tue day Is Isa s sa I a n matter alter of oC regret That It Should sh Jd k kc n c om irn nv just at it a time when the team wr nr beginning to pick up the fine I poinT nr of oC baseball and keep scores down t i i average that would compare f far fd u with contests In the National o OJ U VM associations after playing ni mr 0 ir i r less ragged ball all summer it t particularly a disappointment disappoint A As is is s usually the case the result wa t d by a few fe obstinate heads and nfl n i sight The latter was the fall fail fallU un U of f I the th executive officers of or the ther If r a iu U to demand a forfeit bond bind In t uh lh team tam to play out Its schedule I n l r the he rules or the lack Jack of rules an any ally could withdraw from the 1 l gui on an any pretext and suffer puffer no po noI I n ity That made It an easy ey matter f i r M 1 Irs RIsley Shannon Hopkins P and others the U mainstays lf f tin th Rio Grande nine to pull out vh vb two n they saw no chance of winning am thing but defeat and thus force the 1 into disbanding Bu Pu the most surprising Incident of ot th and the direct cause of It v va is Manager Rands Rah s bold attempt last Monday For reason reas n he had the Hie theman th man mi nt of ot the Pocatello team t am in th instead i 1 stead of Mr 1 lr Trapp and what hat In the then n name ime of common sense possessed Rand that thU he hp should try to ring in hI a of Rio Grande men nie his game be Ing with uh Manager Mana er GimlIn is a riddle r the th fans fanK are ace trYing to solve Jole From Front any It was ridiculous There he heas was as on nfl the ground with ton ten Pocatello players play nt all In uniform It is said and rp U to play pIny He certainly demon demons s rated srah d a lack of confidence in his men v Wt i n he hI tried to play the outsiders Manager r Gimlin of course oure protested He Me was right He pointed out in black and white the provision of the league Institution constitution that no players of any team bam shall play with any other team t am than that to which they belong And Mr fr Rand made the startling plea pIer that the th Rio Grandes had disbanded Father r Gimlin who played ball per haps before Mr Rand was out of kilts kUts demanded the certified release of Shan Shannon Shana non a n ni Hisle ley Hopkins and P which h of course were vere not available This s settled It Rand was obdurate r te and there was no game Then came the funeral sermon from rom President Horn upholding Mr lIr Gimlin In his stand declaring the season at atan atan atan an end and giving Ogden the thY pennant p with a deserved percentage of ot President nt Horn Hora did IUd the right thing in censuring the two deserting teams t anis he might have hae it in a little more vigorously the circumstances justify ing It Th The Short Line managed pretty w well ell en to keep out of ot wrangles by a strict ad to the rules all aU summer the theone theone one ont exception being In their last game gam nhen hn they played RIsley and Hopkins Ho against ll the team over oyer Manager protest They gained nothing President Horn giving the game to the and ani an decreasing de materially the Lines averages The season aJon has been on the whole quite Quirt satisfactory it Is the nearest approach h to perpetuating baseball as a game fame amp that Salt Lake has experienced year it is hoped ho d there will be r rules and rn tn expansion of oC the and to t hold bold down the thes ther s i heads r and children who want to tora ra horse before the season seas n is at an fn end 1 |
