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Show POLICE ARE ALL READY. Big Baseball Contest Will Be Fulled Off Today. Everything is In 'readiness for the greatest great-est ball gem? of' the season, which is to bo played today between tho Ogdon and Salt Lako police iorce teams. Tho local boys are in the pink of condition and reports from tho Junction are to the effect that their rivals are as right as hard practice , and careful preparation for tho game of tholr Ures can make them., Beyond doubt, it will be a contest, worth looking at. The town will be there officially, socially, professionally and ovory other old way, A committee will meet the visitors at 11:45 this forenoon with a brass band, escort thorn through the principal streets of the city, winding up at the Commercial club, where an elahorato luncheon will be sorved. An openly declared purpose on the part of Dick Shannon -and a couple of other schemers to founder the visitors at this feast, thus rendering ren-dering them unfit, for active service on the field of bnttle later In the day, ha6 .been, nipped in' thn bud by Acting Chief Burbldgo, who says he won't stand for any 6uch rough work. "If," says tho acting Chief, "we can't skin these resurrected mummies from the outlying districts without introducing Mark-Twain's Mark-Twain's jumping frog work. why. dammit man, we'll go down lo defeat and stay, down." The new line-up of the local team Is as follows: Kennoally, catcher; Goldlng, pitcher; pitch-er; Brown, first baser-Shannon, second Daso; Evans, shortstop; Pierce, third base; Andrews, An-drews, left field; "Wilson, center field; Stain?, right field; -Simpson, substitute. |