| Show I 1 1 I I tL L CJXIHGJ 1rerUlsS The interest l that Is being displayed In outdoor sports at this early date Indicate In-dicate that the year will be one oC the most lively In this lino Salt Lake has ICtH There will lw baseball cyclo race golf cricket tennis boat I UK shooting In uct every popular outdoor exercise will have HH train of follower follow-er The most popular among them nil will bo baseball and cycling For tho Jlrst time In the history of the Stale a league has been organized the teams 1 of wftlch will play under the Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion of tho National league This la probably the most Important step ever taken Jinrc to advance any line of sport I SnlL Lake Ogden Park City and Pocatello Poca-tello will now attract marc In a baseball way and the scores of tho teams will bo went out over tho country When 1u excellently rood ployur dovclopa among tho local talent his qualities will become a topic of discussion wJ hlcoro tlsetSlon nmong Jiustorii baseball managers Under lie JJcJlt rules of this National league ihc jjluycra her will huvo an opportunity oppor-tunity Jf thoy arc flrstihiss men to L bouorim members of I he big tcama In hit Jftist Manuger Cllppenger of the Short Line and Manager Fulton of tho flIck Ctnuide arc making efforts to secure se-cure the best men possible for their rc Hpeetive tennis and thegames played this Hcason will be lights from start to HnMi Them Avlll not be any onesided wins or walkovers and u victory will bo an honor to a team The imtnagcrH I Of the teams promise to glvu llrslclasx ball and this Is all that In required to inuke the sport popular This applica thou to the National league us announced an-nounced yesterday has caused considerable consider-able tall as there are many onthu nla tM who have wished to see the sport so controlled The baseball meeting which will bo held today at the Grand Paclllc hotel at 1 p m will IHJ a most Important one t At this mooting t lien will be representatives represent-atives from the Pocatillo Ogden Park Clty and Salt Lake teams These I teamn will organize what will lie nailed tic flailIdaho Stale lenguu and will Play under the National agreement pllecra will be elcetrd to handle tho business Interests of the loams In jcn eral grounds will be selected to play upon which will without doubt be Walkers Hold umpires will bo ihosen fat the Honson a schedule will be ar ranged which will I give every team twenty games a forfeit will be decided upon lc > guarantee that every team In I tho longtu will piny out Its scheduled ganus there will bo representatives pivKoiit from the various baseball I wounds each bidding for the leagues games and other mailers of business will he brought up for settlement a 1 Had Messrs 1 Sullivan and Lucas been nW to aivccRsfully organize a league s p nnned several of the local players would have Issued a challenge to the team representing Sail Luke to play t lor a Mdejiot of JSOO J Although thin local teams which are being organized will bear railroad monograms they will he I IM professional in every sense and thu limber In thorn will be as good as could bo secured In the Western country tumos will bo arranged with any teams I from other States on such days aa will not Interfere with the league schedule Manager Lake of Walkers field I Shi that thc grand stand will remain where It alnnds at > resent l but that I more I bleachers will be erected for tho ilUl1lmou ton OC the spectators Work of repairing and refitting tho grounds will soon begin 9 U The Z C 1f J < AL > will organize a base ball team the coming week and it i For Homlses the to bo as strong aa last yea past three years the Z C M J nIne has not met with detent and the Inltftutlon claIms the uUHlnsShouse Chaiflpionslilp S S I ji There is a little doubt regarding the reorganization of the Walkers team the coming store best players 001111018 season and Cromer Two of hnYe tbe left the tore The Clerks Union will again be in the F field but without Manager StlcfeL o I Thursday night at S p m the local school teams will moot at the Y M C I I A parlors to orgnnlxo a schedule of games for the scholastic champ chornplonshlIJ I of the year It will be decided I jneetng at the upon whlbJi grounds the Same VBl be games played yl Whether any of Ihe I i I JnVo Ogtlin or Logau school teams Ailll enter the league is not known f The games pjaycd will be for the chaIU yet i t I JIoii5hilji or the State and all schools c ait eligIble I r Ab Howell of the High School I team has already commenced to get his i 111 shape n ° wlll PltcU for thotcnS V or cain l Howell Js a good man and can play ball I fUil enough to qualify him for one or I V the bit tccms The University nine Is the only team In the city that Is I now In full practice Then aro enough mon at the school for two learns Thoy choose up sides daily nd play several Iniihigii lu JracUci gaines Af tor two weeks of thii s kind of wort Capt Welling will select his material for the regular team i w y The Suit Lake ifardwarc team has nrtnln ° rrlllllizr1 and tho ellknown Billy Lloyd buy oven elected Two good players from tla EQ1i captain l Rein halL and Ralph will be added to the train S I Iannl mpponpir of the Short Line states that he will have one of the I best teams In lie field and one which vTll bo abln to play uptodalu bull In respect l Mrpen r Is trying to secure every Dike A aller who Is nov un tho list to play with the AVtstcrn association A i now pit thICI I lem Kim rel will bD HCCII in the box this year and Judging from his record he will keep l the fana guwis I lug Klmeror pitched for the Llncolns In Dn and 90 when they won the pen nant in the Western association a The buslnesshouso loams have called I a mooting for tho t 20th to OrganIze IL schedule of games for tho hUt h1MI lionsu championship Teams organized In any of the bus I noun houses will l H > I eligible for membership An yfCort will 1i made to have a trophy presented TO the team winning the greatest number of games by 1 the business houses of the city Itrrll V a The abandoning of tho loaguainropo iIIin by Td Sullivan caused uo aur yrs ornlly Sullivan and LURS had an uphill Job In trying to organize a hugue Sullivans genius for organizing organiz-ing baseball Uum proved futile and lie has dropped entirely out of the leaguo J proposition Lucas Is I working hard In Montana where he has created I considerable Interest In Butte and Helena He Is sill confident that ho will bo able to organize the league and to Include teams from Ogden Salt Lake and Pocatello I 1 The Rio Grande team will go out today I to-day at 10 n m to Walkers field for the first practice game Manager H J Hand of the Pocatello team arrived In tho city yesterday and is u guest at tho Grand Pacific Manager I Man-ager Hand will have one of the strongest strong-est teams In the UtahIdaho State I league and from tho lineup of men I given the team Is likely to be a favorite AVilllam Tmpp Is president oC the learn and William Martin captain The latter I lat-ter Is considered one of the best In I Jleld < rs In the country Ilarlman thu nnRt dUUIIOlolI will catch Clark of I Santa i i Cruz llrst base Kllcber of St Louis allaround man Harman a pitcher Kerran a catcher from ana an-a City who played with lllo Western associailon lust year Eubanks the wellknown pitcher who will hold down tbo box this year Then there are Sid dons Illgson Dalesman and Mclneny outtlcldcrs Manager Rand Ilarlman lark and Kllebor l are from the coast and played In the championship team of the coast and the Pacific Northwest league during the winter of 1S9SW The ball park IK i being Improved at Pocatello Poca-tello t Dressingrooms are being tilted up and more bleachers added Manager Man-ager Hand Is hllC to nllend the league mooting today Manager Fulton has signed Lee Hopkins Hop-kins who will be hero in a few days and ready for work Hopkins cant be beat an a < nlorflulder His friends will bo glad to see him on the local field once more as he was one of the favorite I players last year I |
