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Show FUN FOR THE FANS BEGINS TODAY H Baseball will have lis annual eprlng. H! opening In this city today, unless but H what's the use, It's not going to rain H because the- weather marr says not, and he knows. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the new Salt Lakc baseball team will Irfdulge In open battle with a collection f of soldier ball tossera from Fort Doug- Hj las and every fan in this city is? in- H' vited to be present. That is to say, H every .fan who has the necessary 25 Hj ccntw with which to bribe the gate- H The FOldlers are out for biood. For weeks past they have been practicing diligently with tho wle aim of getting a chance ut the bunch of diamond ar-lists ar-lists who will represent this city In the ' Pacillc National league. Some days ago Hj Manager GImlln consented to allow his pets to play the delegation from the post and today was agreed upon as the Hj Yesterday afternoon "GIm" tele- 1 phoned up to the fort and offered to H lend the roldlcrs a battery for today's game. Lieut Clark, manager of the j post team, replied that he had a battery ' that could make anything the Elders have look like school boys and refused H, the offer with thanks. H' The Saints are not at all worried about the outcome of today's contest. The hoys are all in good shape and to 1 use one of "Slats" Davis's expressions, it will be like "picking cherries." H Quick, Wlggs and Esslck, th'o three twirlers of the Elder team, will each H" take a turn In the box this afternoon. Manager Gimlln has decided to give them all a chance and each man will be Hj allowed to pitch three inning.?. "Bill" Hansen and Kellackey, the "Ca- nuck," will do the honors behind the Hl Hostilities commence promptly at 3 o'clock. Following Is the line-up of the H two teams: Hl Salt Lake. Fort Douglas. H llausen-ICollackev. .c Deem L Wlggs-Qulck-Esslck.p Hxlnler r Davis , lb Compton 1 Delmns 2b .Bryant Flynn 3b... Lusslcr Bruyutte ss Jacobs or' Cook Hlmlln rf Hcnson Muller If, Barrlcman Weed cf Bowman i . . "Slats" Davis, Delmas, Bruyctte and 'Mickey" Flynn will constitute the in- j field aggregation for the Saints this afternoon. If the boys don't get stage Hl truck today, the soldiers will have hard work getting any hits past the inner Hi garden. "Weed, Muller and "Dad" Glm- 'In will take care of any stray ones that Hj may wander in the remote sections of Hl the daisy patch. H 1 How will it look to see "Father Ghn" Ti)d "Bill" Hausen In Salt Lake unl- 1 Jack O'Brien, the well knou'n ex-Salt Hj Lake ball player, left yesterday for H Fargo, N. D where he will captain a Hl ball team during the summer. Hl Hi Jack McCarthy and' Colgan VI 11 prob- HL i ably ofliciate as umpires in the league Mn games in this city during the summer. HU a The membM-o of the Boise team who have reported for practice are: Johnnie Ward, Ervinc Jansen, Conrad Starkells H and Bob Blcwett, pitchers; Charles El- Hj .sic, first base; Jack( O'Conncll, second H base, George Babbitt', shortstop; James McKevltt, right Held; Eddie Hammond, H outfielder. Thos yet to arrive are: Fred Houtz, right field; Buck Weaver, center Held; Dave Zearfoss, catcher; Dan McFar- land, pitcher; Joe Marshall, outfielder. HHlHl Hj The diamond at Walker's was in great yhape yesterday and unless a deluge Hl strikes this section of the country today, the field will be fast this afternoon. President Williams of the Spokane club received a. telegram from St. Paul signed by "Dr. H. M- Moser" and an-j an-j nounclng that the doctor would arrive 1 in Spokane Thursday sure to work out uith the Indians. Hi Tho Victor 'Baseball company has wired that the old contract with the Pacific National league would stand and that the balls for this year would be ; Hilpped at once. The Victor people at- Hl trmpted to annul the contract on the 1 ground that a new league had been formed this year, but were compelled to H!! stand by the old contract, t President Lucas has announced that j T. Peck Sharpc will be the second um- Dire in the P. N. L. The new man has been umpiring In tho college games In the. middle West and for the Chicago H City league. |