| Show SPORTS OF TilE YEAR I The sporting season the past year has proved to be the most successful one yet All classes of outdoor athletic ath-letic sport were well patronized throughout the season the Increase of attendance being especially noticeable nt the baseball games It was practically prac-tically the first year that a league was conducted upon the proper lines with business men hacking the teams Games were played under the National league rules and responsible men were managers of the teams which resulted re-sulted In giving the public the best baseball It had ever seen on local diamonds dia-monds and In other cities of the State The average salary lists of the various teams came to about 1200 each the players receiving from 75 to 185 per month salary and It Is reported that some of the players on the Ogden team who did not receive a stipulated sum but took their chances on the percentage basis made as high as 100 per month The season was commenced com-menced with four teams In the league Salt Lake Ogden Park City and the Railways Early In the season the franchise of the Railway team was sold to Lagoon by Manager James Cllppinger and thereafter the team was known as the Lagoon team But one or two men of the original Railway Rail-way team wont to Lagoon the latter team being made up of a picked team from Denver brought here by Buck Weaver After the first month of playing the Park City team disbanded leaving hut three teams in the league which played out the season for the championship The Ogden team which was looked upon at the opening as one of the weakest In the league won the pennant easily the Salt Lake team taking second place by a slight percentage from the Lagoon team which seemed to lose its grip toward the close of the season After the league season closed another schedule of games was anangcd by two teams for a 500 purse The Lagoon and Salt Lake teams consolidated which gave Salt Lake the strongest team she has ever had and against which Ogden was made to look like an amateur team Salt Lake easily won the S50Q purse after which the teams disbanded dis-banded for the season The coming season Js heing looked forward to as even more successful than the past one Plans are now un der way to promote a sixteam league known as the Intermountain leaguo which includes teams from Bultc and Helena and Great Falls Mont and Pocatello Ida and Ogden and Salt Lake of Utah John S Crltchlow was elected president of the league through his popularity among the baseball men and his successful mangement and handling of the sport last year In connection con-nection with the Lagoon team He is well liked wherever he Is I known and will no doubt make a good president for the league the coming seaaon A great change in grounds will be made this year over last season All teams in the league are expected to furnish their own grounds upon which all gaines wil be played and no ground rent taken out of the gale receipts This will give the men playing percentage per-centage basis a better opportunity to make l money and the managers who pay their men salaries will also get more In return All the gate money will be divided equally between the two teams playing the visiting team to pay all Its own expenses In traveling travel-Ing The season will open the latter part of April and close the first week in October ROWING The Salt Lake Rowing club was not heard from the past year Efforts were made in the spring to make arrangements arrange-ments with the management at SallaSr hut there was n hitch somewhere in the dealings and the matter was entirely dropped and never taken up The racing shells were left at the lake unprotected un-protected all summer and are now probably unfit for racing and if the club takes on new life an entire race outfit will have to be imported from the East CRICKET The game of cricket was an unknown game during the past season for the first time since an Englishman arrived In theState There was an attempt to organize a club but players did not respond promptly and the sport was laid array for another year The most prominent cricketers left the State and left the old club without any support The club will be organized In the spring and efforts will he made to secure make the club ure a good ground and a permanent organization and to arrange ar-range a series of match games with the different teams In nnd out of the State SHOOTING Trap and rifle shooting has has been a prominent pastime among prominent business men the past year The Rifle club has had an average attendance of fifteen members at every shoot held weekly during the entire year and the sport is still going on The opening of the duck season had little If any effect upon the attendance of the club and none of the members seemed to wish to give up the regular shoot for a days hunt after ducks Dr Dart won the club championship and was presented with a handsome diamond medal valued val-ued at 100 given to the club by the Salt Lake Hardware company The members took great Interest Mn the shoot for the medal which probably held the club together so well during the whole year The Salt Lake Gun club stopped shooting entirely when the duck sea since commenced son opened and has not menced active shooting but the sport will be taken up during the present month John F Sharp is the champion of the club at the present time He won the championship cup twice from Cal Calllson In succession each time than by getting one more blucrock Calllson The latter handicapped himselfsome for these championship shoots by changing from a single to doublebarrel guns but he shoots tile latter exclusively now In target practice prac-tice and experts to give Sharp a run for his money when he Sharp returns from New York In the spring Calll son has held the undisputed championship champion-ship of the State for several years and his Admirers would back him against any man In the WeaL He Is the same every day and never loses his nfcrve In a shoot He can be depended upon at all tournaments to make the winner go harder than he ever went before Young Sharp is practically a novice in the sport and has a great future before him in target shooting With but one years experience he climbed the ladder to the top rung and has competed at championship shoots In Colorado and Washington and at each place set a hot pace for the leaders He Is looked upon ns one oC time coming worlds champions and next year will probably enter the championships at Brooklyn where men from all over the world meet to contest for the championship honors HOUSE RACING The horse racing of the past year was nothing to brag over With the opening open-ing of the season small purses were brought to the front some of the purses being 50 for a race which proved a big drawback for firstclass sport There were several good meets but the same horses appeared ut each and the people were tired of seeing the same thing over and over again The sport was handled better than it had been for sometime und the races which were run were interestiixg and gobd times were made In all events C J Crabtree was manager of the horse track and worked hard to give good racing He had but few old skates to draw from and It came as a surprise to the sports the good racing he gave with the oldtimers that entered Several Sev-eral of the horses had raced upon the first track built in the State but they were worked up to speed and gave good account of themselves Dr Whitneys May R und John McCoys American Fleet were probably the two best known horses on the track and always put up good races The D A ar society which has selected Agricultural park for the fair site will put in a mile track the coming year and this will practically bring about the dawn of horse racing in the State As soon as the society gave it out that It would build a mile track many of the prominent horsemen who ZULU gone out of the business commenced com-menced negotiations with Eastern men for thoroughbreds trotting and pacing horses Hal Brown will put Into trainIng train-Ing all Ills track stock including the famous Altoka that has a record of 210V6 made on the grand Circuit The track will be placed on the Western circuit and yearly meets will be held with purse money aggregating between 10000 and 15000 for about two weeks of racing in tIme spring when the racing stops on the coast all the horses will be shipped here and then to Denver Den-ver In the winter many horses which will be taken from the track for a rest will be stabled here owing to the good climate for horses The mile track will make Salt Lake a racing center according ac-cording to what all the prominent horsemen say The weather here has no extremes winter or summer and for the past three years outside horsemen horse-men have endeavored to Interest business busi-ness men to build a mile track but up to the present time no one could be Induced In-duced to see that it was a paying proposition GOLF J L The game of golf has been the most attractive outdoor sport of the four hundred the past season The membership mem-bership Initiation fee was doubled over the preceding season to give the club a better financial standing and it secured se-cured what It looked for There are over one hundred members in the club and games were played throughout the entire season Some of the players go out and play winter and summer but the championship season closes the latter part of November A W Copp who became a member of the club the past season won the State championship champion-ship and was presented with a handsome hand-some cup Ho Is one of the best players play-ers that have played on tho green and wins the majority of tournaments that he enters for competition The club had no Instructor the past yearns year-ns the majority of the members were taught the game the preceding vear by C F Riley of Columbua O Toward To-ward the end of the season he had many pupils who could make the rounds with even less strokes than he could and it was decided that the better bet-ter players could act as instructors for all new members tho past year The committees will endeavor to make the coming year even mere prosperous than the past CYCLING As a recordbreaking season the cycle cy-cle seasoi eclipsed anything In past years Worlds records were smashed galorcanrl the Salt Palace cycle track has been made famous in the cycling world Tt lias been heard from from coast to coast and even across the water there Is talk about It W 13 Samuelson of Provo rode an unpuced mile In 15325 which record has been recognized by all cycle racing boards lore and across tIme water It Is a record rec-ord which cannot bo broken every day in the week and It may stand for several sev-eral years before It Is wroken Ivor Lnwson another rider well known In the West by having competed for the post three years and who made Ills record on the Salt Palace track went East last summer Before he started In any of the races he was told that he would not find the easy picking he had In SaltLake but all Vcoona looked alike to him the MaJ Taylors the Coopers undMcFurland8 he look them jill down the line and although arriving on the circuit late In the season sea-son when his opponents had a big load over him In points he made the championship cham-pionship table look shaky Nearer and nearer the top he approached and had the acaaon been longer there is no question but that he would easily have woii out He returned to Salt Lake from the East with plenty of money and soon after his arrival hero he wris taken sick with typhoid fever He recovered re-covered after three months Illness and this may place him In the gonuby Hat He IK hopeful that he will be able to ride no fast as last year hut under the circumstances can hardly expect to be as speedy Late In them rail w E Sitnuelson T und William King went to Now York and competed In the International sixday team race It was the first appearance of the two men in such a contest and among such men but they held theJr own up to the last sprint finishing In sixth place behind the leaders threo laps to the had Those who saw tho pair ride say that the team will win Qrst place next year If they are still together It was held remarkable In the East that two green men could make such a showing against the best men In the world Samuelson was very popular upon his first appearance being known ns the unpaced champion Motor racing was the feature of tho past season but tho match races were so unequal and the winners easily picked thai the people did not show the usual interest Charles Turvllle had the two fastest motors on the track and could win as he pleased from the other machines The sprint racing was a big feature inasmuch ns all the times were fast and the competition keen POOOTBALL The interest In football was not as great the past year as during the preceding pre-ceding year There were not so many strong teams In the field and few games were played Outside of the Thanksgiving game played between the universities of Nevada and Utah the crowds were very small On Thanksgiving day over 5000 people went out to see the game as against 7000 the preceding year The University Univer-sity team won the State championship after a struggle for three years for those honors during which period tho high school held them championship Time high school and University teams did not meet last year owing to tlve big difference in weight The University Univer-sity team was easily tho biggest In the State and was not scored against In any game played except by the Nevada Ne-vada team which defeated It by a score of 6 to L The Y M C A team proved a failure probably owing to Its great ambition In wanting to play the best teams first Its first game wag with the D W C of Denver from which defeat it never recovered and after which game the team disbanded but it was not announced until after the season closed All Hallows had n gritty little team and won second place In the State championship next to the University which was first The big surprise came from Ogden when eleven small boys who looked too small for high school students defeated defeat-ed every team their weight and played the big teams to a standstill Them University team defeated the Ogden eleven by scoring once In each half but the team had to work hard to do It and twice during the game the Ogden Og-den boys were within an ace of scoring scor-ing This team had been well drilled in all field tactics and wero In time best physical condition Few men were knocked out during the games and all played like little demons During them latter part of the season time team became be-came known as them Little Demons which name It well earned There was no team In the State its weight In the same class The teams will not be handicapped by grounds the coming year as they were In the past There wna but ono ground and the teams were made to pay over onequarter of the gate money for rental The University has laid out excellent grounds the entire campus being fenced with a tenfoot board fence upon which all games will be played In the future I BOXING SevcraAgood boxing events have been promoted during the past season and although Salt Lake Is not known as a pugilistic center still It is fast gaining gain-ing a reputation on the outside of a good place for the promotion of boxing box-ing as long as no prize fights arc Indulged In-dulged in The big champion James Jeffries and Gus Ruhlln appeared i li fourround contests at them Salt LaXe Athletic club and a great number of minor events have been held The sports have Invariably secured their moneys worth and Manager Mc Namee has endeavored to keep the game clean and free from jobbery on the part of the boxers He will not tolerate tol-erate any fixed matches and has made the men post forfeits that them contests would be on the square In order tliat the public could be assured of good clean sport The Interest has become so great of Into that several business iren ae laying plans for an uptodato athletic club The talk has been of a twostory building the ground lloor to have a big swimming pool and ring them scats to be arranged around the ring in tiers from the floor to the cell ing the second story to have the gymnasium gym-nasium and lockers with a bright and clever athlete In charge |
