Show FACTS FORTHE FOR THE FANS Ono more week of at baseball and then there will be ucla for two on the local diamond San Francisco comes hero this week wt opening tomorrow and playing tor the remainder or the week Salt Lake 10 oi to tH the i r a week anC ani then to Butte for a week and home again With the team ii t week bait Lake will have an ally of seeing Buck Weaver and Big Chief Borchers two ball players to fan and it t is expected a t warm reception them when whan thay the make their first j on the diamond Los AngeleS left last evening for fr Helena where i iy w ek the went anif anil Dad Clark both having signed tor br the remainder of the riese two players are favorites and go with the De t wishes ot ni th ib local ocal fans Aim me by the way wa there arc ar armany many who are why Clark an Egin were nut not given a cnance on he Salt halt Lake Lako team Manager of tb Com comp ny amateur baSeball team team who ten uon the thc city amateur yesterday bij the a says he has fae arranged a game with the Smithfield team to be play fd at Logan on Friday From Jogun the win Wilt go jo to 10 to meet a team JL n that city f Sunday 0 IV Is claimed gets u t salary of for twirling on the Los Loe Angeles team It is also stated that no he Is under contract to coach the Princeton team at a salary of a year In spite of his being a man he has failed to get gel off well in Salt LaRo and hue has been nent sOnt to the bench In both the games ke lie started to in the series Just closed His team mates say that lie ho did his true form here litre or fens fans would have seen me of the great lt of IFt meat ment of the bait park to start a hay mower today and cut some or the tall grass In the outfield If It this Is done incidents like the one yesterday when whelk the bull was lost letting in two runs v 51 e I Manager Roilly Reilly like of the ball ballplayers players that come t tm Zion thinks this town IB lit the tha banner city on the tho circuit Give Salt ako a good team sai am Roilly and none of the other cities can touch you Rumors upon rumors are ae being that there will be n a general over overhauling overhauling hauling in lit the Pacific National circuit next year Here is the latest Irom San Francisco That there will be a new league next year Is a certainty The fht present circuit of the league is altogether too unwieldy extending it does from Los Angeles to Salt Lake besides there are towns which are not towns in the circuit Helenk Is a failure t this yar us as was Portland Salt Lake B will be kept in iii the tho new circuit as It is s too good a ball town to be dropped There u were 2000 people Kt at the opening game of ot t the Suit Salt team with Helena Helene Helena i will vilt i e 2 he street oar w mp iy f in Helena Iclena the franchise and has a i source of revenue r besides the admission t to the boll ball l park ark Even with this the our ear company is losing money on the yen ture anti and there here are aro rumors that Helena may be b dropped before the end of the present season ie Is spoken of Jor br I Helens franchise Ogden Is a gowd town and will oc e given a Iran I chise and Tacoma would necessarily be in any league loague formed in Its the north would woud make the new of the tho following Salt Lake Lale Og den Butte Spokane Seattle and TH Ta Tacoma coma C Manager Grim expects Weed to arrive in time the city today and Jf if he hoes does he lie will appear In game tomorrow probably at lit third Grim syi Weed V J is a strong hitter as tsp and out outfielder outfielder fielder a s there is on he team i George Edward Hdward better as ag the Rub the greatest cr er In baseball added another to his airing of surprises Hist ast week by jump ing the Athletics After a stormy with Captain Lave Lam of th tha r Philadelphia Ameri American tl can league lub Wr morning dell declared h he wIts was through tIle Then he packed up his hie uni uniform form and other Ie i sad ami took tl Lm away from the grounds A later luter he purchased a ferry ticket for Camden Camdon and inured for the Atlantic City team Rube had bad not been away from the Athletics ton hours when Connie Mack Minted hUnted him up Mack Is the only man In the country wio Wi hits has managed this erratic twirler and am after a heart to heart talk Rube agreed fo to go goback goback back and finish the season with tile Uie Athletics but bItt he IK IS lo to get a juicy bonus Is a real good Indian Waddells latest sensation made his record this year read like hike a serial story A few of his adventures In lii 1 JS are Studied a book on stenography raptly raphy at a Florida university to learn learna a few more curves March Was bitten by an alligator April a record of dl striking out batsmen May Defeated baseball team that faced him June Got married the Athletics o Here is something from the Spokane S Review about which Is of interest to local fans and an sounds very much like the truth from the Uie way things are going There is Is no truth In the report that Delsel will go o to SLIt Salt Lake Owner C H Williams last blat night said that Deteel Delsel would remain with tile the Spokane team Heine Hifle has taken too firm a hold bold on the hearts of to b o 0 0 C Willie Hogg who will be remembered t by Salt Lake fans as the feat fast youngster who pitched a couple of games fames for Big Chief hid Borcher early last season and who is now pitching for the Portland team in the Pacific Coast league was assaulted in Portland Tuesday night by R K jg Hartzell a gambler The pitchers head was badly cut Hogg says a knife was used on him and that the assault was unprovoked Hartzell was captured on the roof of a house after a long chase bv by the police He says the cuts were In Inflicted by a it diamond ring on his finger fingor ills His friends say Hog was bullying buhling a messenger boy and that Hartzell came cameto cameto to the boys rescue Hogg says he had no trouble with any tine and ad never in his life saw Hartzell before He will prosecute the gambler he says say f 0 C Manager John McCloskey of the San team says that he Is still stihi antis satis satisfied lied fied that an intermountain league will be bemore moro more Montana than that the coast cities I t I I maintained three years ago that mat what was desired in itt this state stale was a league composed of say Butte Helena and Great Falls in Montana in Washington and amid Salt Lake City and nd Ogden In hI Utah H said the transportation expenses would be materially reduced He thought such a would prosper and that in interest tarsal terest would be maintained in Ip it itC t C C Pitcher Stricklett of the Los LOB Angeles team who pitched such a good game of ball bait except for the last two In is considered one of the best beet men In the tho league Stricklett throws a pe peculiar peculiar culiar curve that fools the best hitters In Inthe InUI the UI league and for seven Innings yes yea yesterday he had bad all the players on the th local t using this of o a ball ballU U 11 does doe not twist It merely slides oft off Into a fools the batter worse than any other ball ur vo t the spit ball anti and the umpires call It the Uie wet ball bail The name makes maXes but bt hittl difference how however ever ad as It amounts to the same thing When Stricklett goes to pitch he is I eon con wetting his bis fingers with his tongue and dampening the th ball with them Ho never pitches a dry bull boll but by the time timo he has rotten his fingers good and wet made the rae ball good and slippery where his fingers touch he lets the brill go and it slips from his hand into one of the rost beautiful breaks break a aman aman man ever witnessed When Helena was sues In Los Angeles ac so according cording to the story the team got onto way of pitching for the first time anti and proceeded to fix Mr Pitcher in good style Every roan man carried some m life 1115 oh the bail field 1 On the day dav that Stricklett pitched Every time a player got hold of the ball hb in rUbbed red ret pepper it By B the timo Hud gotten the first a iti degree of moisture he had u n burning For tb S rest of ot tn game lie he marie made jt it ot of thc thi dia i mind omi totton for eight It 13 is sugg t d that S SIn rl klett kiett always smells the ball when he goes into the box nowadays 1 I ThiN The fans of Spokane seem to think that Salt SaIt Lake Is lucky In getting gatting W V Oar Gar in the team in this city judging tho following tin the Spokane If Salt Lake does not have a good haP bell i sam In a short time LIme it will be be because cause a tempting offer to Garrett for his stock There wilt will be no lagging behind with the Mormons nor their owner Garrett Garrott will go In to Win Wina Wini i a good place and ne will win it Expenses 4 l will not bp good men me to help the team out present hole McCloskey has been boen given a great deal I of praise for his work ork in the tho P N L but he has not lone done In all his time here what Garrett has accomplished In ia one ear In baseball Garrett practically signed players for three teams this year While hUe there was doubt about the result In Portland Garrett sighed players for I that club When McCloskey McCluskey was begging for help Garrett secured several m men n for him and nd gave him one of his best pitchers Garrett promised the fans here a good team and he collected the boat best aggregation aggregation tion of ball Spokane has ever evet had There were no retrenchments He believer that the b beat paid the mot most and went after tho best He is expected to te follow the same line hue in Salt Lake Laka ann akin teL L the other teams want to work |