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Show Amusements Nirxt week will be "phat" with amuaemenls. There's the Mrs. Catherine Kichings Bernard opera troupe for a couple of nights; then Tony Pastor with his company; the grand ball at the opening of the Clift house, the excursion to C.iche and the cricket match on Wednesday; after that the 4-paw circus. Cricket Challenge. Fred. 'it7. Day, Esq., Sandy: Dear Sir. I hereby challeuge you to a friendly game of cricket to be played on the Stb ward squire of this city on Wednesday, 15th inst., you pick your own eleven, etumps to bo pitched at 9 a.m., sharp. Game to be played in strict accord ance with Lillywbite's rules. Tlie lollowing are the names from which I shall select my eleven: Lieut. Taylor, R. Colleit, M. H. Walker, Wm. Cooper, A. Weld, Mr. Parr, Mr. White, Mark Willou, J. Platte, J. Payne, Mr. Brown. C. Toraa, F. O. Smith, John Cumiing ton. Reapectlully, S. S. Walker. Salt Luke City, Aug. 10, 1S77. We understand the above challenge has been acoepted and that the match will be played on next Wednesday between two elevens that will make a lively and exciting game of it. By the way, as cricket is a loug game and attracts numbers of lookers-on, lookers-on, who som' iiiiies remain from the commencement to the close, how would a brass baud do on the field that da? It could play "See the Conquering Hero Comes" .when a player came out 'with a duck egg opposite op-posite his name, or the "Rogue's March" when one came out with good ajore, or cir.c versa. En ? |