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Show OGDEN YS. SALT LAKE. A BASE BALL GAME ARRANGED FOR NEXT SUNDAY. An Interesting IHacnssion Regarding Cycling Tracks What Phil Dwr, One f Corbett's Backers, Thinks of the Califoraian's Condition Bob Fitzsinimons Talks About Hall's Victory Jack McAuUffe Talks-General Talks-General Sporting Splinters. The Junction City ball tossers, who recently re-cently made such a fine showing against the Denverites, will come down to Salt Lake on Sunday and play the home team at the State street grounds. Sam Groesbeck says he will put a team worthy of Salt Lake in the field, and an excellent game is promised. Tricks for Cycling;. . The question as to what material should be used in constructing the bicycle track at the World's fair city next year is now being discussed. dis-cussed. Clay, wood or cement which? It is no simple question and the Chicago wheel, men are bothering themselves about it not a little. ' It is the universal expectation that Chicago shall provide the fastest track in the world for the fastest men in it. The meeting is to be historical, and to meet it the records, one and all, must falL Wherefore the necessity of an unsurpassable path. It is held by some that only racing men are competent to peak on this subject, but the discussion has been so free of late hereabouts that a shrewd suspicion has crept ia that if they be left to decide there will be no track at all, for they are possessed of divergent opinions formed In various way. Thus, one prominent racing man says cement is the proper material, mate-rial, whife another says hie wheel drags on such a surface. The advocates of wood . 1 - 1 . I i 1. 2 I in ins. mere is noimng to approacu is buu j wrangle 'furiously with those who stick up for clay. And so it goes. None of them agree. Briefly, the merits and demerits of each material are these: The clay track is undoubtedly very fast in fine weather if it has been carefully sprinkled and rolled. All the world's records have been made . on it with the single exception of two the mile and five-mile five-mile in competition and these were made on the new cement track in Paris. But then it must be remembered that the record breakers rarely have had a chance to fully test the cement track for speed. There are only a few of them, and It is not always convenient con-venient for the speedy men to scamper off to France and Holland when they feel in condition to do something big. . There is no sound reason for believing that a porous cement ce-ment track will give to the rider of a pneumatic pneu-matic wheel a sense of dragging on the tire. Of course, if the track be perfectly smooth, as asphalt, for example, the tire will drag, for the broad rubber surface is forced down upon the track and there is no air to free its passage. Riding on ice will illustrate the truth of this statement. But start a cement track with little air-holes and, in theory at least, a pneumatic tire should glide over it with the least resistance. There are no dust particles, no imbedding of the tire in a soft surface to hinder or impede on a cement track. Rain mars a clay track and makes it heavv. Rain, it is contended, does not affect a roughened cement track, nor will water lie on it if it is given a gentle slope. Besides, it dries in a few minutes. If well laid it seems to possess all the advantages that the others lack, and from the fact that the two records just indicated have been made on it, there is a prevalent opinion that it is superior super-ior to clay. Moreover, it requires little money to keep in repair and is superior to the ravages of frost and heat for a score of years. On the other hand, the clay track requires re-quires constant attention and an annual outlay; out-lay; that at the end of five years has more man aouDiea me original cost, ine opnng-fleld, opnng-fleld, Mass., track takes $1500 work of repairing re-pairing every year. Against this put a cement track which, if half a mile round and fifty, feet wide, will not cost anything to keep in repair, but which will originally cost twice as much as was first spent on a clay traek with the same width and circumference. circumfer-ence. As for the board track, it is said, but not proven, that it is faster than either clay or cement. Those who have faith in it believe be-lieve that the wood should be laid lengthwise length-wise and slightly grooved. It's a nice point to decide which is the fastest? It's a grave question of economy which is the cheapest in the long run? What Dwyer Thinks of Corbett. Yeaterday we gave Charley Johnson's opinion of Sullivan's condition, because, being be-ing the big fellow't backer, he would be more apt to know how Sullivan was doing than any one else. For the same reason Phil Dwycr's opinion of Corbett would be of interest. He called upon the Californlan the day after his exhibition at Newark. Jim was pleased to meet his backer and told with apparent relish of a fellow in the gallery gal-lery who had shouted out: "It looks easy, but you an't got John L. to buck up against tonight." Corbett is certainly looking in superb condition. The party could not find a flaw in his condition and Dwyer announces that he is more than satisfied with the condition con-dition of his protege. Corbett . weighed, with his coat off and in his shirt and trousers exactly 191 pounds. He expects to right at 1S8 and no less. He 6ays and he is the be6t judge that Sullivan will enter the ring at not less than 220 ponnds and probably proba-bly at 235. Corbett will be twenty-five years of age and Sullivan thirty-five within a few weeks of their fiarht. It is in this difference dif-ference in age and weight that Phil Dwyer pointed out to his friends that his hopes lay, and they were not slow to catch the idea. They were greatly pleased with Corbett's manly and modest bearing. He spoke freely of his fight with Jackson, when he went into the ring weighing 17, and came out a victor, weighing only 170. He says that all such defects in training have been remedied now. A bet was made the day of the visit of $25 to $100 that the fight would be declared a draw, and that then "Corbett and Sullivan" Would star together as a double attraction. When this was mentioned to Corbett'a backers they were highly indignant and declared de-clared that the Olympic club would see to it that there was no fuuny business, and that their man, for one, was not in this business fif "i ( t TrH rm affaj.ta 1 Tr, Bum tlr in word the impression of friends and critics who looked over Corbett is that if he had a little more head, a little more judgment, he could do for the champion in four rounds; otherwise, they say, the fight will be a long one, with the odds slightly In favor of youth and sobriety. Jack Denies It. . Referring to the reports that he is not training well, Jack McAuliffe says: "I know, that the impression has gone out that I am not training faithfully. I want to say through you to the public that I am training as hard and well ae my nature will alkrw, and I above all others know just what I can do and to wh3t extent I may tax my strength. But upow my honor I can truthfully truth-fully state I am doing all my nature will permit. per-mit. Myer should have the advantage over me in several respects. He Is a hard working work-ing man and a very healthy one, as all work-ingmen work-ingmen are who live sober and regular lives. It Is only natural that the hardships of a eerere course cf training will go easier with him than myself. Notwithstanding a great many persons in this section fully believe that Myer has the dead wood on me, I am going to be there to do my best. When the ag drops I will give you a ran for all the money that has been staked en me, and if Jack gets iu seoond it will not be his fault. The purse is not an object to me. Plenty of 'ignorant men have money by the hundreds j and have not the sense to appreciate it. I will be fighting to sustain my reputation aad to serve my friends. It is more of a matter of pride with me than anything else." Lanky Bob on Haifa Victory. When informed of Jim Hall's splendid victory over Fred Pritchard, Bob Fitzsim-, none said: "I have repeatedly said that Hall would win in four rounds or not at all. He la clever, but lacks both heart and staying stay-ing eaalitie. It I ever get a chance I will 'do' him ln four rounds. He is an inch and a halt taller than I, clever as a give-and-take fighter, but after a couple of rounds he would not be hi it with me. Tea, he may hare improved, bat it ia not in him to 1m- |