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Show 'ORTING MATTERS. Davis Brothers of California and , their Little Project as Eegards a&'.i Lakn. :Y ARE PRETTY GOOD PEOPLE. Work of Two Brothers who Want to Hile Here and a Word to Jim Williams f Regarding His Future Conduct Why Corhett Lost Caste, 3 jrk and Lou Davis two Californians, been in the city for several days past, rerin' " just as naturally as the sparks pward "Mark" and "Lou" are figur-m figur-m sporting events, aud if, as they de-Salt de-Salt Lake catches them "thar's gwine ; a row." Probably a row once a month S. good many moons, for way down the Davis boys would like to establish hletic club ia Sa't Lake. e Davis boys are Californians only by ition. but they have imbibed enough of eal thinsr down there to have become with the spirit of fair play and the oft lirst-class scrap.' The two brothers I together in singular felicity. When ic 'iays that green is blue, why-adjusts why-adjusts his glasses and finds he was wrong, and that the color eally blue after all. So in regard xapi i::r. Wheu one thinks one thing, ther, by some strange fraternal pro-, pro-, and without any moral contortion, just that way too. It is natural enough all, Their inspirations come from the j breast, they fought each other in JUtii'Jght the world together on start-in start-in to it, and once, when people stood itrainst the one, they had to include the r. Well, together they got the best of And now they are thinking of leaving :and of sunshine and flowers and settling q here in L'tah. is whispered in the Oxford, and rumored 'ells' tailor shop, thttt the Davis brothers something nice up their sleeves. Even ,r away California the mad breezes have ,ed the punelnug capacity of .Jim Will-i, Will-i, and something of his aspirations, these young Lochinvars have S out of the west to 'bat it means. It is stated that "some- 5 nice" spells its name Greggains. be so. If so, Jim Williams' address is Lake City, and many's the man who d go his bottom dollar on the result. OOtd oe a great event, and above all, a for Williams. Both men asrure, both .omparatively untested. Greargains is r, and, maybe, cleverer. Williams is tier, and a harder hitter. Greggains s no heart, but the sort of battle that iams would give him is just the sort of e that would be most likely to demoral-he demoral-he Californian. ie Davis boys, naturally enough, are not ing for the worst of it at any stage of game, but they are a guaranty of fair play ah honest contest The slugger istricky ind all dreams of trickiness, and if he get the ear of his opponent, either in nia permna or by proxy, it is apt to be a of "fixed," but Greggains is too honest, ambitious to enter into any scheme that not redound to his credit, aud Williams too much at stake, it is to be hoped, to own before any man until beaten out ire-demauds it. .It Lake will respond toe aud heel to the ic. of a first class glove contest, and pay aoney, but as to fakes and h:ppodromes. ! nay ! It has had enough !iac. If Jim Wil! iams were id willing to enter into a fake he txt to be driven oul of a city that has 'en to him its unqualified licking aud its ;inted raise for the little he has done, people believe in him. They think he mest and brave, and true, and if he ed a traitor for the sake of a few paltry rs that chance to be in sight at the lent he should be bastinadold clear out ae country. not so much the fault of the fighter vill, in matters of this kind. It is the Iced "manager" who stoops, yes, stoops, )f l;e a dollar out of something that Vtknows he is not responsible firhas not added to, and dot assist He simply imposes on the fatand credulity of one whose education lie his hands ana nearr, ana not, in rns bend perpetrates upon a frieudly public a 1 ttiat stinks iu the nostrils of decen-cy8 decen-cy8 perpetrates it, too, through false anfeouorable promises to the man who is ftraction. He tills him up with false anB" hopes that lure him to his ruin. .JJorbett expatriated himself from that svrtt of ail lands, California, by listening toAgerial lies. Where yesterday he had thadi of friends and admirers in hi;tfu home, today he has enemies, iljincd to the managerial syren song arrfown people turned from him. He cafer again be to California what he wiitn he fought ( hoynski, a brave, true, hchtd. Twice he has faked with Dae Ctftll aud John L. Sullivan and his pe turn from him almost to a man and re him with distrust. ; there. Charley! bow does the poe.et feith that ?':b0 drawn out? was a prize fight at Hailey, Idaho, veiny between Frank Snow of Baker C'Ore., and a man named Fleming of r who weighed 150 pounds to Snow's 'iSkining defeated his man in the second to , dn and Jackson have signed an agree to fight before the National club dur-in dur-in erby week for 10,000. An important li in the articles is that the ring must U than twenty feet square Jackson "hanged his training quarters to Slough, St. Peters. I |