Show FORT DOUGLAS ACCEPTS Soldier Ball Tossers Willing to Meet the Athletics Private Southey manager of the Fort Douglas baseball team is in receipt of a challenge from Manager Hill of the Athletics Ath-letics of Salt Lake to play an exhibition game of baseball at Becks Hot Springs on the afternoon of Friday August 28 proposing to defray the transportation expenses of the Fort team to and from the springs and expressing a willingness to deposit a side bet of 2 with any newspaper in the city If the Fort Doug las team is able to raise that amount or in case of failure to do so to put up any part of that sum they may be able to raise and wants the challenge answered an-swered in todays paper Private Southey when seen by The Heraid correspondent yesterday about the rather suggestive challenge which appeared in both the morning papers of I Wednesday said I You can say that the Fort Douglas baseball team accepts the challenge of the tyros known as the Athletics but I prefers to pay their own expenses t and from the Hot Spring that we also prefer pre-fer to put up the sum of 0 if the Athletics Ath-letics can raise that amount with any daily paper in Salt Lake for a game of gae basebal at Becks Hot Springs any Saturday I Sat-urday after next the city tea furnishing furnish-ing the same men including Mr Jones whom we defeated last Sunday The J eOxo be a reputable one a I satisfactory to both teams a We have a game with the Park City nine at the Springs next Saturday afternoon after-noon at 230 but any other Saturday after af-ter that we will be glad to play the Athletics letics who by the way I believe have never won a good same of ball in their I lives Front the tone of the challenge they must be the team that was organized organ-ized with the avowed purpose of defeating defeat-ing us We hope to see them through on this thisWe are having our monthly practice 1 marches this week and Manager Hill no doubt wants to take advantage of the fact These marches will not hurt us Ito I-to much to stop the game on Friday I the 27th but they prevent us from arranging ar-ranging for the game on that date a the Second battalion to which several of our players belong leave the post today on a thirtymile march to Big Cottonwood returning Friday at nocn Any Saturday after next will sit us as it is the only day except Sunday we can get excused I from duty at the post |