Show l ic rI L 8o6j I Gr I The first game of basbcall between the local league teams will be played at 3 oclock today on the Walker baseball I ball grounds by tho Short Line and Rio Grande teams Although the game I is not one of the championship series there Is great Interest In It us all the enthusiasts are very anxious to sec theo the-o teams line up against each other The Short Line has had but one days practice as a team while the Rio Grande boys have been out for more than two weeks RIley should be able to give good account of himself today as he has been doing hard work with his wInS ever since his arrival here It13 believed that Ed idddcr of the Short Lines has a surprise In store for his opponents this year The lineup of the teams will be as follows is Short Line Rio Grande Bowman c Searo Kidder P Rlslcy Bert Marietta Ib Shannon lUmmercr 2b Mclnecko Miller IM o Martin Waller Captain 3b llughcy Barnes I C Donovan Grlpgs c f IloplUns Taylor rv f Hill n s Substitutes for Rio Grande Bennett Pcndergnuh I The members of the Ogden team arc confident that they will have an easy victory in winning The Tribune pennant pen-nant for the championship In the UtahIdaho State league Capt Gim lln Is practicing the men every day and when he lines them up against the Short Lines next Sunday at Ogden the team will be ready to give harder battle bat-tle than ever before Gimlin It Is said has a better arm than ever before The interest In Ogden is at Its height and the team is being well backed a Tho Rio Grande and Pocatello teams are scheduled to open the chumpionship season here at the Walker park next Saturday A few changes have been made In the lineup of the Pocatello team Bill Martin has left them and joined hands with the Rio Grandes but manager Rand of the Pocatello team eays that he can 1111 luartlns place with just as good a man and that he will spinS a lineup of players down here which will prove a surprise party to all Manager Rand says that he has a battery without an equal In the league Pocatelo has had more than a month of actual practice In the Held and are in tiptop condition Eubanks has almost perfect control this year it is l said There Is all kinds of money In Pocatello that the team will carry away the pennant a I I The organization of the UtahIdaho baseball league has done away In great part wJth the businesshouse teams the present season Early In the year mere was talk 01 a ousmessnouse league but the matter has been dropped The Z C M I team Is the only businesshouse team In the field to date and it will probably disband In a short lime for lack of opdwcnts The Clerks Union Salt Lake Hardware and Talkers Store teams will not be organized or-ganized I S P Capt Brooks of the L D S College team says that he will carry his team through the season A match game has been arranged with Provo for the 5th of May to be played at Provo and negotiations are on with Logan and Ogden school teams The Salt Lake Business College will also remain in the field and the two teams will proba bly give some firstclass amateur ball before the close of the season o Ray Romney of the Salt Lake Business Busi-ness College team will probably secure a position on one of the professional teams next season The managers all speak favorably of Romney lie is one on the coolestheaded amateurs In the game and with the right kind of coach ing would make a good pitcher for any team P S P Walter Scare and O Shannon will catch for the Rio Grande this seasonS a season-S 9 The High School has not made much of a showing thus far this year Manager Man-ager Leonard has been unable to do much with the team lime boys had not got over their glorious football career of last winter and this spring they felt so strong that they needed absolutely no practice to win time baseball cham pionship Manager Leonard says the boys 1 have learned a lesion but expe rience comes rather high and they will probably not be able to pose as the champions this year 4 00 Clem Kimmcrcr of the Short Line who has not pitched since OC has greatly Improved In the inst week He is being reserved by Capt Wailer for the scheduled games and will make his debut In Ogden next Sunday P 0 I The league which was being orga nized early in the season by Locus In Montana IH said to have broken up en tirely and it iH now doubtful whether them will be any teams In the Hold there thIs year The players are com ing this way Several of the best arc trying 10 secure positions on the Ogden team I I S The City and County loam will lake L a layoff for a few wooks Tho boys I i have not yet entirely recovered from tho lust game a The Rankers arc anxious for another game with the City and County team Manager Patrick of tho latter team pays that he would bo glad to arrange another prime and Is confident of giv ing the Bankers heir nil for the season S P 1 Manager White of HIP Cavalry base ball club at Fort Douglass hal Issued a challenge to play any team In the State Iho grounds J13oe bee put Into firstclass shape and thcVc is talk of building a now fence around the Held A gamo has been Picked team from the arranged it with a city for today al 3 i clock A lineup of the following players will be mle led While AtkniH Po c Lafforty p Davl in faiewood wood 2b Morris 1b Lee > p and fis Graham r f Brown f c Taly 1 f Holmes Jachaon on Phelps and An drews substitutes a a p A number of ball players visited the uaiker park Yesterday nfternnnn nni and belIeve that the grounds will be In ex cellent condition for the game today One hundred and twei1tyIle lLldi ot sand have boon haul ll on time dia mond and rolled in making the Infield < J an almost Ideal one Although the dia mond Is I not as hard it UK viii be n is I soon probably In braicr shape than It i ever has been before The homeplate and the pitchers plate are of rubber this year to conform with the League I rules and are placed In cement The grandstand has been moved to the northwest corner of the Inclosure and the spectators will not have to look into the sun as was the case Additional Addi-tional bleachers have been put In and I the grounds now have a sealing capacity S ca-pacity of about fifteen hundred The players believe that the slight rain which fell has Improved rather than Injured the diamond u The brokers are going to spring somethIng j some-thing new at their coming game Each player will appear In fancy dress and play the game In his costume There will he all degrees of things from King Arthur to Trilby represented The player who finishes thc game with the most clothes on will be awarded a box of selfliphling cigarettes The brokers are going to advertise I the game extensively and will begin to place their tickets early this week It Is believed tho attendance will be a record breaker It was agreed last night that the game be played early next Saturday beginning at 1 oclock and getting I inrougn oeiore me a vaguu feuuu 1 > gins at 4 oclock There Is not a player J j on either team who does not insist that at one time or another he was a bright and glistenIng star on some big league team The two lined up for a practice game last nigh The Idea was to allow al-low the bottom to got a line on the re I j suit The game lasted eleven Innlngn j I and resulted In a score of 19 to WIt W-It Is learned thai the management of the Walker park has been requested to have the fence surrounding the grounds moved back so that the Hies will not he knocked out of the lot Capt Bill Orlllflhs of the Curbers Insists i that he can knock a hail over the fence as at present situated every lime he comes to hat and he does nol want too much of a cinch in the game Manager Harry Tosph will pilch for the Kxchango team He wants to tic near the umpire um-pire and will have all the pockets of his dress which will be one formerly worn by Queen Elizabeth filed with fragments of bricks CapU Griffiths doesnt want Joseph In the game lie says Harry talks too much and will win the game in that way unless the umpire is a very strongminded man A box of cigars will be placed on first I base as usual At second usual a caddy with matches will be encountered and will light the cigar the runner has pre lously secured at first At third a barrel bar-rel of beer will be placed and tho runner run-ner will thus be able to refresh himself him-self for the dash down the homestretch home-stretch J C Lynch has agreed to furnish each player with a block of Ice for a seat I Is hoped this will tend to calm the athletes should the umpire um-pire make a rank decision Trouble Is I being encountered in get ling an umpire The managers of both teams tried to get an umpire yester I day but failed to find any one who would to act agree without being SCO wihout provided pro-vided with an Iron cage Jack Mom eckc of the Rio Grande team umpired the game of the brokers last year and the treatment Jack got on that occa sion weakened him so that ho could not play ball for two months after ward Jack will emphatically not take any more chances with the bulls and the bears and Dusty Rhodes it is said Is looking for pointers on the game Ho has a large roll of green goods to wager but has not yet selected his favorite |