Show BY W D RISHEL Castle Gate Utah July 38 28 loot 1908 Will VIII you kindly answer the following through your sporting column Two teams No 1 and No 2 play baseball for a purse PUnte Team No 1 is at bat and captain of ot No 2 sends his first pitcher to the field putting in another pitcher who is batted out of the box upon which another pitcher is I substituted with like Ilka results upon which hleb captain of Qt No 2 calls calli in the first pitcher Captain of No 1 objects is sustained by the um umpire umpire umpire pire who gives rivee team No 2 three min nUn minutes minutes utes to resume play and upon their refusal re refusal to do so 80 calls the game in favor of team No 1 0 to 0 O Who bo wins the purse A SUBSCRIBER The above is a conundrum all aU right but would be easy ey if the two teams be belonged belonged e longed to a league with an official head bead to decide all questions In the Ute first arst place tile the umpire was dead wrong The captain cap captain captain tain of a team teem has a perfect right to change his players including his hie pitch err era around as much as he likes and the tits umpire or opposing captain has nothing to say about It providing al always always always ways that if a new ne pitcher is put in inthe Inthe Inthe the box he must stay there until the theman theman theman man at bat is either put out or reaches retches first Captain of team No 2 hiss haa a per perfect foot right to dispute the umpires rul ruling rulIne ruling ing Ine prohibiting him from making the change chans and should make a protest If the umpire insisted iru But in the case of independent ball there is no official l head to settle such a protest prote t Again Aga In the umpire is right m lh forfeiting the game to team teem No 1 if team No 2 refuses refuse to con continue continue continue th the game as he did in this case ca e But his bill ruling would be thrown out on ona ona a protest made upon the grounds that the umpire refused to allow team No 2 to put a pitcher back in the box after he had been changed to some other po position position position on the team A league president would have decided it no game and or ordered ordered ordered dered it played over again apin Independent ent baseball teams should always follow the rules of organized o baseball which hi in this case would compel the team to play the game over again It is there therefore therefore fore only fair that the purse offered for fOl this game lAme should be held up ua u and the teams play another game to decide the Ute winner Jack Tippets Well Whipped Full reports of oC the match fought at Butte on Wednesday night are at hand and show mo conclusively conclusively that Caponi has it on the local man sass in alt all departments of the game While le the ending of the fight was any anything Using thing but satisfactory to the crowd yet Tippets was clearly a whipped man when th the referee awarded the contest to Caponi Capon It was in the fifth round when Tippets went down from a stiff stitt I da to the stomach Jack immedi immediately claimed foul Referee McCarthy our W old friend bd Jerry called upon a cou eon couple couple pie of doctors to examine Tippets Both declared be he was wag unhurt and McCarthy gave Tippets twenty minutes in which to come COIRe back and fight fI ht It out Tippets refused and the fight light was given to Caponi Accounts of the fight light agree that TIp Tippets pets peta was whipped before he went down and Ud that th the blow which he be claimed foul tout was merely a good Xo t wallop in the Ue stomach which hurt as any aDY other well welt directed blow would do Tippets has made a remarkably good goad showing in his hie fights tights this part of the country and was as looked upon as a possible comer com comer comer er His defeat by Caponi and it ap appears appears appears pears to be a decisive one has given him hima a big setback and it will take a good goodman many man victories to convince the Butte fight fans that he is I a fighter Willie Hoppe Makes Good Hoppe the worlds champion t at spent the week in Salt Lake and made many friends while here Hoppe is a gentlemanly little fel tot fellow fellow low and one might spend hours with him without knowing be he ever saw aw a billiard table He never ni talks tala billiards billiard and in fat fart has nothing to say ay while white playing He is one of tho those successful ul champions champion who lets his work speak for Itself Before leaving he said id that be liked his hie stay atay in Salt Lake as much as 8 any city he had ever visited and prom promised promIsed promised that on his next trip west Salt Snit Lake would be one of his important stopping places Governor Was Right Iii Ht u tr IV oi v jivia it a said sad made a determined effort to prevent Marvin Hart and Mike Schreck from fighting in the city of oC Terre Haute the past put week Evidently the Indiana chief executive is not very well posted on the fighting game ame and records of fighters tighten Any Anyone one who is 18 would certainly never accuse either Schreck or Hart of fight fighting fightIng ing at this stage of ot the game Both have been n dead ones for years and put up a respectable fight if they tried But come to think it over perhaps the governor is wise on fight dope and this is the reason he was against a couple of dubs dube like Hart and Schreck pulling off a farce and fooling the fight fans Germans Prohibit Motor Racing A cablegram from Berlin this week announces that the German government has forbidden motor cycle racing in that country This action was wu taken on account of ot the recent accident when a couple of motors collided causing the bursting of the gasoline tanks which immediately exploded A number of spectators were badly burned and a couple killed as a result This is is not the first time there has hIlS been a serious accident resulting in death in Germany as several riders have been b n killed Germany is the great hoodoo of oC Bobble Bobbie who has narrowly escaped being killed on three different occasions while following pace Annual Pass for Preacher The Rev Paul Drake of Beverly Mass is 18 out with the statement that Sunday baseball is all aU right and thinks the laboring man should be allowed to enjoy the Sabbath day as he sees fit The Rev Mr Drake Brake should be given an annual pass paM by the baseball bu eb U team of Beverly and if that town is I like hike Salt Lake and cannot boast of oC a 8 team at the present time it is up to the fans to organize organise one if for no other reason than to allow the reverend gentleman a chance to see Bee the game gamed d The boxing game seems to have opened in both Denver and Butte and the boxing fans are looking forward to tosane some sane good rood tights in the near future Now if some one would pry the lid off offin offIn offIn in this thill part of ot the woods there would be Joy in old Salt Lake |