Salt Lake Herald | 1896-12-11 | Page 8 | Among the Sports

I e i AMONG THE Inr orUKIo O William Osborne a noted English fighter at 12G pounds and Bob Thompson Thomp-son the lightweight champion of this section yesterday arranged for n six round sparring exhibition to be given at the Lyceum next Saturday evening i There will probably be some preliminary prelimi-nary bouts + J + I Bob Thompson and Kid Swan of I Brooklyn have completed all arrangements arrange-ments for their go at Ogden on December Decem-ber 22 I + + + Bob Thompson of Salt Lake now I claims the title of lightweight champion cham-pion of the northwest + + + I seems to be the unanimous opinion opin-ion of Salt Lake sports that the awarding award-ing of the decision to Sharkev was a deliberate steal and Wvatt Earp is roundly scored by his former Salt Lake friends + i 4 4 Football is the only form of sport that seem to flourish in ZIon This city is a perfect graveyard for athletic clubs bicycle racing is a thing of the i past baseball excites no interest while boat racing was abandoned years ago + + + An effort will be made to arrange a big horse racing meet in the spring