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Show jHESPfBQ IPiTEREST II ITffiL GAME Utah, Idaho and Wyoming Leagues Engaged in Hot Flag Races. Baseball throughout the country is having- the greatest season in the history of the game, and in Utah the national pastime has found more boosters this year than in any preceding season. The amateurs have taken more interest in the fame, and tho semi-pros are at it full tilt. In Utah, Idaho and Wyoming amateur baseball has taken on a firmer hold than ever. Amateur leagues have developed some good players this season and the competition has been keener than heretofore. here-tofore. Locally scores of baseball teams have been in competition this season. In Cache valley the league race haa attracted at-tracted the attention of the fans not onjy of that section, but also the fans of every other part of the state. Clubs in that league have strengthened by obtaining ob-taining the services of such stars as Caldera. former Eee; Mclvor, former Beaver; Manauk, former Murray player, and numerous others. The Victory league in southern Utah has produced some great baseball teams. Officials of the league pronounce the race one of the closest in the history of the section. Several Salt Lake players are repreesntlng the various clubs In the Victory circuit. In Idaho two or three leagues are in swing that have first class baseball players. In the southern Idaho league the play has been nip and tuck throughout through-out the season and it is said that the salaries in those circuits are on a par with those of class B clubs. Old-time stars are in action there. Dad Hausen, former catcher for Ogden; Zwlefel and Swartz, Portland heavers during the early part of the present season; Denny Williams, Wil-liams, former Beaver outfielder; Cy Morgan, former Salt Lake and former Southern league slab artist; Freddie Cordtz. former outfielder on the Sky-scrapper Sky-scrapper team in the Union association; Cy Perkins, former Salt Lake and Ogden Og-den Union association receiver; Joe Ber-ger, Ber-ger, former Vernon and Chicago Cub shortfielder; Rube Evans, former Bee slab artist and many other old-timera ar making the race in the Southern Idaho league a superheated affair. Ray Donkin. Pat Jacob?, Percy Hansen, Sherm Jones, Oswald Johnson and Theo "Wood are some of the Salt Lakers playing play-ing in that circuit. Lester Jarvis, Lefty Hail, Bart ool-ums, ool-ums, McHenry, Scogglns, Willett, and numerous others are playing wonderful ball in the Snake River-Yellowstone league. |