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Show THE SPORTING WORLD. ! The Disciples of Iziak Walton Getting Ready for Work. THE SALT LAKE BOAT CLUB. Comin" Sportinjf Events All Over the Country -V Chanes lor Williams-Late Williams-Late News of tae itinjr and Track. The trout season opens on June 16th, and the disciples of Izaak Walton arc anxiously awaiting for the day when the law will permit per-mit them to lure the speckled beauties with the fly. Camping parties are being made ur, and there will be an exodus of sportsmen sports-men on the llith. Ready for Work. Capt. Barratt. of the Salt Lake Boat club, says that the shelN and boats have all beeu retinished and look as well as if tin y hud just come out of the shop. They will be removed to the new boat house this week, and the b ys will have some friendly contests con-tests among themselves on Decoration day. Sportinji Splinters. Denver now boasts of a colored athletic club. Governor Flower of New York has taken to boxing. There arc 804 pacers in the 2:35 list, sixty-eight sixty-eight better than 2:15. Joe Goddard has gone into active training for his right with McAuliffe. Cal McCarthy is training faithfully for his light w ith Bobby Burns next Monday night. Prof. Chance and .Sergeant Owen Davis are giving mounted sword contests and fencing fenc-ing exhibitions in San Francisco. Billy Lewis of El Pasa and Jesse Smith of Denver have signed for a fight to come off at Denver on June 1st for $-'0 a side. The Salt Lake boys leave for Ogden next Thursday, and will once more bat the giblets out of the alleged baseball team up there. Messrs. Dangertield, Love and Arnett, the English wheelmen, have ridden 9 miles on the Rudge triplet in 27 minutes, 35 seconds. ' JcTuetrc., Corrigan's entry, bloke the 2-year-o!d record on the Lexington track, going go-ing four and a half furlongs in 55 seconds. sec-onds. Charley Johnson and W. H. Cook had a tight on the dead quiet" at Denver on Wednesday, and the former won in fifteen rounds. At Gilmore's show in Chicago tonight the windup will be six rounds for the heavy weight championship medal between Mike Queenan and Sam Graham. Joe Fowier, the veteran feather-weight, died at Flatbush hospital. New York, on Tuesday last of pneumonta. He was an old friend of Colonel Ed Kelly. Phil Casey, the champion handball player of the world, and who is popularly supposed to have no equal as a judge of physical condition, con-dition, says that Sullivan is in fine trim. Fred Johnson, the English 1 IS pound champion who is to meet Dixon on June 18, has arrived in New York. The Englishman seems to be the favorite with Salt Lake sports. The Pacific club of San Francisco has I been trying to arrange a m ateh for Peterl Matter, whom Fitzsimmons deCeated. Bel may be put against the winner of the Smith-f3 Chiids fight tonight. In reply to (iypsey Gleason's challen re J Harry Gilmore says he cannot accept be .1 cause of claims on his time by pupils an entertiiuments. La c in the season, Gil more says, he may tight (ileason. The New Bedford, Mass., Athletic clu has arranged for a boxing match for Doint between two Boston ; u rilists, and has cj tended an Invitation to i he pastors of Ne J Bedford to witness the exhibition. 1 E. J. McConville's challenge to ar, I three men in L'tah to meet three members I the Fencing club with either foils or duelin I swords, is not likely to be accepted for tl 1 1 reason that MeCunrille has no equal in Ula I and the other two members of his team al nearly as good as himself. A Salt Laker w ho is in Boston writes tfai he saw Peter Mailer in an exhibition in th; B city recently and the Irish lad did son clever work. Pet.tr s.iys that he wants 1 figh Godfrey, ami Godirey says he wi think the matter over while he is enjoyioj H the $2200 pa'd over to him lor licking bi Joe Lannon. n Jack Day's has agreed to stop young D1 Ion at the AU?u Athletic club on May 3 1st in nine rounds. The as pen Times intimates? ! that Jim Williams might be "induced" to 1 meet Davis, and adds that the Salt Lake boy -would be a "mark" for the Aspenite. The ' only answer is that Davis can be accommodated accommo-dated at any time for any amount from $5(X to $:i5Jo0, ajtd the match can be made by V wire. a In the Jackson-Slavin fight at Londo: a next Sunday, Hall and Cboynskl will seeoiK n the colored man, while Mitcheil and Jacl J flavin will look after Slavin. The price o ' , admission for non-members is $13$, whic : u ll nas been freely put up. Members ar oohged to pay from $10 to 50 for rcservec r scats. There is not much belting. The gcr )U eral impression here is that Slavin will wirle although Jackson, who has a ho?t of at quaintances ih Salt Lake, Las the sympath of the sports. ' . , , , . th |