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Show SPORTING NOTES. The Effort to Hold m Tournament Shortly Aftr the Ilullidays. Affairs about the athletic club are decidedly sluggish but promise to braco up in a short tim. Slado the Maori who rose to fame while consecrating himself to the purposes pur-poses of a stopping block for the peerless peer-less boy from Hoston is working on his ranch a8hort distance from the city. The movement that has in view the organization of a baseball circuit extending ex-tending northwest from Salt Lake should be encouraged. It will be a source of considerable legitimate sport as well as of advertisement. Kri Linard the young boxer whom Colonel Kd Kelley brought out of frontier fron-tier obscurity is very anxious to get on a mutch with llnhbs, who lost the battle on a foul to the Montana Kid. Linard is made of excellent timber and would make it interesting for the sable adversary. adver-sary. Williams, who defeated Wilson in this city, extends his compliments to the middle weights who are moored at ( )gden. and savs he is read v to meet any one of them for from $.")() to JUO00 a side. They will find a trip to Salt Lake less expensive than one to Denver, where tiiey expect to obtain accommodations accommo-dations from Woods. Kd Kelly tho Nestor of Salt Lake sporting men, is making arrangements arrange-ments with the best parties in the country for an interstate tournament in tho city, the event to take place shortly after Wie holidays. It would bring a large number of bonalido athletes ath-letes together and would give local sporting an impetus that would place Salt Lake on a par with Denver. |