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Show 11 IK TElilMS. A Brief Biography of the Young Men Who Will Ruthlessly Slaughter The Tribune Force. A CELEBEATED AGGEEGATION. The Coming Contest For the Benefit of Mr, F. P. Beslin, the Blind Editor of ' the Great Salt Laker. , It has been decided by representatives representa-tives of the Tribune and Thk Timks that the only way to settle it is to meet in mortal combat on the balllield. Thero are a lot of misguided people who earn their living in the sweat of their brows over on the Tribune who have an idea they can play ball. There are likewise just enough intellectual giants on the pay roll of Thk Times to demonstrate dem-onstrate to these people that they cannot can-not even play a codfish ball. A venal press and a venal stereotyping stereotyp-ing outfit this morning caused the Tribune Tri-bune to sav that sundry of the players on the staff of Tiik Times arc so snide their names ought to be Snyder. For the benefit of the public it is here declared de-clared and made manifest that the pitcher of the Tribune's force is a moral pirate, who has asserted his in-tcution in-tcution of crippling all The Times men when they come lo bat so that they will have to engage ambulances to carry them to bases. For the benefit of this personage it is hereby announced that every Times man proposes to make a pocketful of home runs, and don't you forget it. The young men on the Tribune who have accumulated the idea that they can play base ball, have so far convicted convict-ed themselves that they dare not "crawfish" "craw-fish" now no matter how strong their desire to do so. In order to prepare them for the largo sized club which fate ami The Times team is holding in store to knock them into another hemisphere with, a brief biography of The Times Terrors is herewith appended: Mr. Carl Smith caught for several years with the celebrated Omaha U. P. 's and added such luster to the name of the family of Smith that every new- born boy in .Nebraska ol the name ot Smith is immediately christened "Carl." Romney was two seasons with Prickly Ash Kilters in St. Louis, and covers seventeen feet of reach with his arms; he will take in everything that comes his way. Cline is from Kansas and when in the box has such complete mastery of the ball that the opposing batter imagines w hen, he sees it coming toward him that it is a new-laid meteor with green eyes and a forked tail. Williams at short is famous the wide, wide world over; and once in a game, in the east, so it is said, knocked a ball over four counties. Boyden has played all over the coast; he is termed in baseball phraseology "a find." Barnes has a reputation on third base that looks like the aurora borealis and will prove a stumbling block to ambitious ambi-tious base runners. Graham, James and Kadel will take everything that comes their way in the field. Graham has such mystic influence over the sphere that it falls right into his mits whenever it comes within ten rods of him. James is. a "phonom." He is only about two blocks behind Duffy of the Chicago's in right field, and knows a fly when he sees one. Nadel, when he starts afcr a fly, closely resembles a buzz-saw while in motion; no grand stand batter can afford af-ford to monkey with him. The Timks 'substitutes will consist of Messrs. Manu, Jones, Glenn, Greenwood, Green-wood, Rivers and Coombs. The three former are celebrities on the diamond, though the latter two are not so well known in western baseball circles. Judge Lancy has been engaged as umpire at a vast and robust salary and John M. Young, chief of police, will shoo the smalliioys off the fence. Mayor May-or Scott has been'invitcd to be present and not only will it not cost him a cent but he will also be supplied with limitless limit-less lemonade. - 'The game is for the benefit of Frank Beslin, the blind editor of the Great Salt Laker, and the boys hope to sell enough tickets to make up a good purse for him to assist hira in the recovery of his eyesight by a surgical operation. It is quite certain that it, will be the largest lar-gest and raciest ball game ever experienced exper-ienced in Salt Lake city. On the left hand side of the following map of war are the "lambs" that wli fall as blades of grass on next Sunday before Thk Timks Terrors. THIBINE. T1MIS li1ramt'r . ritchcr c. C. Wine. Wnneo First base ... W. G. Komnev byon....... Second lwe....M. A. Rovdeu. tliccor.lackHon.Th'i-d base (J. VV. Barnes S"1""" ( Carl Smith. I ncV gh'L" ptop a. B. Williams. "'"eh Kight field Fred ,1 nines. IJsveler ( 'enter field.. Lawrence Nadel N,;lson.; Left Held.. .1. c. Graham. The Tribune nine sizes up about as follows: Kramer, (he crack pitcher for the lribune combine, is the only man in town who can stand in the center of a block and smash a plate glass front around the corner. Any woman, however, how-ever, can accomplish the feat easily Pinneo hasn't seen a ball since the days when he used to play two-old-cat .away down south. Lyon well, he always will be Lyon fir the gang. Rice was picked for second because he can stand on the base and hand the ball to Pinneo at first, as Poco is not strong enough to throw it clear across the diamond from short. Jackson can stop a ball by Javiue down upon it. hut he can t hat a little bit: he was chosen mostly on account of his voice. Paveler once shook hands with Tebeau of th, Denver team, while Bennett used to hustle w,ter for the "Knickerbockers" of San Francisco elson couldn't hit the earth with the north pole. Sixteen substitutes have been allowed tTn'ulne mnf through the kindness ,f t"e Times team who fully appreciate the difficulties they are laboring U0C |