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Show 1Q,QQ0 GRDWD EXPECTED 01 OPENING QUI Fair Weather Will Call Out Throng Certain to Fill Big Stands to Bursting. CEREMONIES TO ADD ZESJ.TO FESTIVITIES High Officials Will Partici-pate; Partici-pate; Rotarians to Parade; Buy Tickets Early to Escape Crush. OPENING GAME FACTS. Gates open at i2:30. Governor pitches first ball at 2:23. Schedule game begins at 2:30. Scale of prices: Grandstand, 75 cents. Covered stand, 50 cents. Bleachers, 25 cents. I THE BATTING ORDER. I (Pitchers tentative; changes probable.) At Salt Lake: POKTLAND. SALT LAKE. Wilie. rf. ToWn or Siglin, 3b. Quinlan, cf. Parmer, If. Bath, 3b. Williams, cf. Gislason or Borton, lb. Crandall, 2b. Rodgers, 2b. Ryan, If. Hollocher, ss. Shinn, rf. Fisher, c. Orr, ss. Houck, p. Sheely, lb. Hannah, c. Kirmayer, p. Umpires Guthrie and Casey. At San Francisco: VERNON: SAN FRANCISCO: Doane, rf. Fitzgerald, rf. Daley, If. Ellis or Galloway, 3b. ' Schaller, If. McLarry, 2b. Pick, 3b. 1 Stovall. -iJT Malsel or ; Caljjan, ss. Ellis, cf. '"-ifaick, cf. Downs, 2b. -'L'MitZ6 or Koerner, lb. , .'tnou, c. Oorhan, ss. f' Jison, p. Baker, c. "V Steen, p. .TJmis Held and Brashear. At Los Angles: OAKLAND. LOS ANGELES: Chadbourne, If. Maggert, rf. Meusor, 2b. Gardner, 2b. Lane or Schultz, Sb. Middleton, cf. Meusel, If. MlUor or Killifer, cf. Lee, rf. Gleichmann, lb. Murphy, lb. Davis, ss. O'Mara, ss. Bassler, c. Sheohan, 3b. Ryan, p. Callan, c. , Arlett, p. Umpires Finney and Phyle. Once more the six clubs of the Pacific Pa-cific Coast league are about to straighten straight-en out for tiio seven months' race to Pennantville. Of the six clubs, Salt I Lake's chief concern will be with Port-laud. Port-laud. The opening game in Salt Lake, as has been the custom, will be attended with considerable chunks of ceremouials. Just prior to the official opening of the season there will be an extraordinary attraction at Bonneville park, in which several of our most prominent citizens will participate. The order of participation partici-pation will he as follows: Pitching first ball Crovornor Simon Bamberger. ditching first hall Mayor W, Mont Perrv. Hitting first ball Chief of Police J. Parley White. Umpire on first ball Chief Justice .1. K. Flick. A nnouncer of first announce Hardy K. Downing. i Tt may ne objected that thero is a slight paradox here, hut we assure vou j J"Vjli:it it's not of our manufacture. Fori 7ampe, it is in the order that Chief VluV. shall hit. the first ball, pitched , and tut Mayor Ferry shall catch it. ! .Vow it is ordinarily impossible for a pitched ball to be both hit by the batter bat-ter and caught by the catcher. We mentioned this point to Business Manager Man-ager .lack Cook, hut Cook only gave us a glanco of scorn. "Didn't you ever see a foul tip?" ho demanded scathingly. Some Fine Figuring. "Well, that floored us. Any business manager that can figure things down so fine as to make a chief of police foul off a ball into a mayor's hands that's been pitched bv a governor is too much for us. At the same time we (Continued on Page Two.) ' 11010 iio WiLL SEE OPEIS GAME (Continued from rage One.) hope y- Ja,-k Cook's .ic'i.aTcly drawn p'nn wiM Liil we have nothing ni;ainst Mayor Kerry. The o ir ycli onto on:U"1 for J ude Krii-lc to do the 1 1 i r r i 1 l: . The switch which 111,1 ke-; .1 ad j;c 1-i.-k the umpire may he rc;:i r. hd bv some indicating tj.-;'t JmUe Kiirk c,u cold feet Ihror.yh fcp.r of Cov-u-;:,ir i lamivru'er 's c(ntrol. A niomoni cf reflection, however, will di.-pel liii? sii-pi.'jnn, fnr it is well known (if all people-; that it takes a diw-Liniio siiir more ierve to be an umpire um-pire than a more baiman. As a batsman bats-man J inline Krk k m i -hr have ese.njied beinj hit with -o baseball, but as an ti in pi re he cert a inly can nut hope to escape es-cape he'ino; hit with n pop hot t !e or a rock. No, yircc; Judc Prick's no coward. cow-ard. Also a Panicle. Prci-odino' the festivities at the ball park there will be a line of gaieties by the Rotary club. The members of the (dub will sit themselves down to a regular regu-lar luncheon regular in two ways: that it will be eaten on the regularly appointed ap-pointed day for club luncheons and that it will consist of regular eats. Following Follow-ing the feast, the members of the Rotary Ro-tary club will have a parade At the bcL'inning it was intended that the Ro-tarians Ro-tarians should parade 011 the hoof. Con-sulerable Con-sulerable nnposit ion was' raised to the plan, the chief ami fata objection being based on the high cost of shoes. Why, asked the Rot aria ns, should, we walk and wear out f i f teen bucks ' worth of shoe leather when we can ride and wear out only twenty bucks' worth of automobile tires ! The antis, basing their antagonism on this ground, won. There will be a hand, and B. F. Redman Red-man will be master of ceremonies. The success or failure of the opening day is in the hands of the man or party of men who make the weather. Bright skies and warm sunshine will send 10,-000 10,-000 souls and semi-souls to the ball park. Semi -sou Is are those who manifest a disposition to bite on opening days. Some want to bite the ball " players, some the umpires, pome their neighbors. These are semi -sou Is. Tt, niav he remarked re-marked that, owing to the difficulty of discrimination, semi-souls are charged no more at the gate than souls. This is nnfortu n ate. Expect 10,000 Crowd. Anyhow, there will be 10,000 there. Now, in order thnt 10.000 baseball fans mny arrive at the ball park, gain entrance en-trance nnd become enmf ort-ably seated by 2:20 o'clock Tuesday afternoon it is no idle word to sny that there will have to be a heap of strategy, pep and speed. Whisper! Buy your ticket uptown and give the jam at the park the derisive de-risive smile. All of the box seats for the opening day have been sold. There are approximately approxi-mately 700 of these seats, so at least 700 will have no need to worry. Hundreds Hun-dreds of patrons have already 'acquired their admission tickets, and thus have shown exceeding wisdom. In addition to seeing an immense concourse con-course of people at Bonneville park Tuesday, the spectator also stands a chance of seeing a real baseball game, the first of the season, and what more is there in life than that ? The street department of the city coernment is bt'.silv engaged in mak-in.' mak-in.' passable t ho approaches to Bonue-vi'.le Bonue-vi'.le park. Koth Ninth South and Main streets are receiving attention. It is the aim of the street department to overcome the mud which encumbers both thoroughfares and thereby render it possible pos-sible to reach the ball park in a safe an l sane fashion. Rernhard had his whole squad out vesterdav afternoon and put. them through 'a stiff workout. About ."00 fans were interested spectators. No doubt a larger number would have been i present but for tho belief that there would be no practice on account of the snow earlier in the dav. t het 11 off and Ollie Kirmayer were sent through some stiff heaving work, Kirmayer doing double duty. Schinkle pitched to the batters also. Tommy Quinlan was out racing around brimful of pep and running over. There was no regular infield practice, owing to the fact that the infield was somewhat some-what soft and spikes would damage the grass. There was hitting to tho outfield out-field in addition to a lengthy batting practice, in which the regulars took their turn in batting order. The pitchers pitch-ers steamed them in with much vigor and the boys with the hickory were given an afternoon of real hitting against determined pitching. This afternoon there will be another workout. The doiugs will begin about 2 o'clock. The skipper announced that he would give the hoys a rest in the forenoon in order that they might attend at-tend church. Havd-working Ground Men. The fans of Salt Lake owe more than they wot of to Bob Tennant, the ground-keeper, ground-keeper, and his assistants. Tennant has battled against what appeared last week to be insurmountable obstacles, but ho has conquered. The grounds yesterday yes-terday presented a splendid appearance. To be. sure, there were some soft spots, but they are rapidly disappearing under the influence of treatment consisting of screened sand. Yesterday forenoon was an especially trying time for Tennant and his crew. The infield was covered during the night with its pajamas. Bright and early the canvas was removed and work begun. Then it began to snow and the cloth was quickly replaced. Then it stopped snowing and the covering was once more removed. Then it snowed in earnest and the pajamas were put on for keer As rapidly as the Snow fell it was riv moved with hand scrapers in orderj'i prevent it melting and seeping vrj(? ground. Tho whole park was tEwJ' over with hand scrapers, a tak of tr mendous magnitude. At tho finish the snowstorm there was no snow on th grounds, and when, tho sun did bur.t torth the process of drying quickhr set in. ' The grass in the infield is in ettelW condition and indications in tha out field are that two or three warm davi will bring forth a healthy stand. Victory for Bob. It has been a bitter fight at Bonn, ville park between Tennant and tho elements, ele-ments, a fight which progressed without intermission night and day with sals-mauder sals-mauder stoves by night and with vigor! ous attacks with shovels aud picks and scrapers by day. It is something for Tennant to be proud of, his victory against discouraging odds. ' The Portland club will leave itt Marysvilla training camp this afternoon -and 'will arrive at Salt. Lnke at 4-30 o 'clock Monday over the Western Pacific. Pa-cific. Tickets are on sale at the following places: Alta club. Hotel Utah. United Cigar stores, First South and Main streets, Second South and Main streets, Third South and Main streets. 143 South Main street. Stickney 's. ; Stenack'er 's, Newhouse "biding. ! C'hapdelain Drug store, FouT,j' and Main streets. " "SyJ Newhouse hotel. Kearua building cigar stand. "Busy Corner," Second South and Main streets. J. B. Arnovitz. Mission cigar stand. "Bank Corner." Hemenway & Moser, Second Sonth and State and Third South and State. La Vielle cigar stand, 270 Main street. |