Show ro i f 1 1 I Weeks Week's Sport ort Gossip J By Bv Walter D. D Bratz j A A successful clo bic season was wasi V i brought bm l ht to u it close I last st Monday ni night ht L e ll Lkc has lias long Jong been known d RS n JL niece for or lh the hike bike riders and nUll it j 1 lias hjul hall had many good seasons of ot racing Iut wun Juts has witnessed the thc clo close e of oC the most successful of ot them nfl all from er c every point t of 01 view vit U k Tho bicycle cJ rulers riders th the om officials ial and arni 1 many 1 of her factors have o entered into milking ll I the lie II n a banner antler one hut but to tn one nc THan men ht belong a n lions lion's S 'S share of ur the thc this i in he V. W. I Harry Hany Je has hal lone ilono more good 4 c f fQy r the hicel bicycle game in Salt Lake than any nn tit other hir man mm who has hal ever Cr id n tt v Wi 11 himself IU with it il Ho lEn has k kept rt l Iii promises f with tim rulers riders and tin thC t ff Ti nd the track owners r h 01 nr more mone mOncy tia than ever o bel be- be t. l-t. l ire th tho MC r l rs ha have rondo made money and nUll andr andy r y or fans fame havo ha had 1111 a eaon of oC r 1 com com- petition Hnry one of the riders rillers who here this thit summer either r left 1 the city it or 01 went tl to work firm firmly I SiLt sat I f r f Ht C that h he had ulli been inen treated right I u All 11 t nr fht i lu i will u-ii return horo if thov e i- i e i i because they were 1 nil fil rill in many Wl'S ways niong monr oilier lIea has hns on I he lie fans including th the writer i I r that von von don't dont t need ned chain chain- pfons to to give i the t people bicycle j cin The fact that JIa ron did jint lot haVe nn any Kramers l or Clarks Clarkes or oIe lip winners throughout the entire sea sea- nn j-nn on has given CU nil all the boys a 3 show at i tiNt first t money anti and t tin Tho hf result was much JilLich k keener kr competition than over ever before and fiser 1st time as HI the thO list of records broken will wilt show During I tho 1110 season on tho fans Calis have o also alo r ty en n till the return to tn form forni of lyer Iver Lawson the ftc former worlds world's champion who had h a I had bad year last lut season leason IJ Lawson oll hiis hs shown llon inan many bursts of ol old time form rm and his riding has been one itie or of the lIi big Y features th this s season iNgon Another rider I f who has hns como come in ill for no little glory is itt I r Hurd has s don rii r. r DO Downing Hardy nil ull season n nn nm and lii his perform perform- I Alices l behind pace motor and his sprint riding aNo also hu have been better th than for t- t yeas years Others of tho the old time tinie local houI favorites took look spurts of new life liCe u d the time n new riders e especially those then front from Australia and New r Zealand di diN lid did well 11 N very ery I In tim tho amateur ranks it was wan a n pretty Phil and Hal McCormick Mc- Mc Ic- Ic fight between Wright lIt Cormick with but little Jitt Ir choice c ho ce between them Wright ht leads Ital I by a good margin in inin in tho the percentage o column and won more races than McCormick Cormick but during tho the last ast month McCormick cormick turned loose c anti and won on nil all tho the western championships Thomas th the plucky little Cali Cali- rode rolo splendidly ly and Tack lack came back into hi his own also bOnn of r f limo tho bi big sensations in the local bicycle camo III was the thc cr great nt motor riding rid rid- in ing of or J- J Eddie dio Whittler Whittier who year ar was wa the joke jokl of or time the gamin game suddenly tlC developed Jop l into tho the greatest t f motor rider I m-er m seen on tho to local track Friends of oC Gussio Gusie Lawson nia ma may dispute S this lit but granting that Gussie is Jho the r n real ical al ho he h has Ims nothing on Whittier nu on an nit eight lap eight lat track Whittier land hind thet tIlt the t Il k cx t rein n satisfaction of trimming his 5 old oM rival rhal most decisively cl and nod tt at the tho I S I close of the thc season was n giving Ji him one onn lap hip in two miles and three laps in in five o It n IB is only now to ho 10 ho bo-ho hoped od that next year par the local IMI manager will 11 1 make ke a n strong bitI bid for Cor or some o of the tho worM world worlds world's to championships h to which Salt Lake City it li identified n Wed lh There rc is not a lo logical reason rea rca son on on earth t.-arth why all t tho lie worMs worlds s 's l championship cham halU TIl races should f be E held lick in the tho east cast when this city ity is s supporting the time bicycle game gamo as it il has this season a let let- letus us 1111 hope that next season l will be br oven CD more inure successful than this one nn and will the fans fatus bo be i that never u again cain confronted confronted con cun fronted with the jumbled up Ul mess uness of S 1103 1908 with it its ex experimental blunders eri On One of or the he stories of the day dav is s that T President Comisky Comisk of th the Whito Sox Sex hns hos already spent on in players for or next Reason season This is probably a fact it simply goes to show what V gigantic affair baseball ha grown to be throughout the tho country It is 18 a business b BO 50 far a IJ as the tho ow nor ow-nor cr IH lii concerned con eon pure anti and simple and shows rs just ordinary business judgment 1 wb when n he lIe puta up a n good round sum inthe in inthe the pro prospect peet o of getting ctt good players pla-cr in II rC return urn Good cooil players mean rood good attendance at ut- t and that means business The time has gono onn by when hen an owner oner can canS S slip ship along throughout the tho season with f F nil inferior team I 1 received ei r a letter from Tad Jack i the th other day dav advising me that ho hall had hallI taken vcr r tho the management of Zb 8 I L. L L.'s s 's I tile the Polish giant who has como to this country under a promise made male him by Prank Frank Golch Gotch wIllie the latter ll was in iu London that if he would successfully win from all flue tho ho le lesser ser lights j he would be IC given Ji a match and a chanco chance at the thc championship title Herman Hcrman is about to hrin bring hi his his' giant on a western trip and states that he ho will stop stoll oil oft with him in this rit city Herman states that ho hu is not looking for any nuy guarantees guarantees but lg but that he merely wants ants to convince tho the fans fan in an any and all of tho big hiJ cities that Zbyszko is entitled to a match with the ch champion Frank Golch Gotch It hc begins in to look as if Battling Nelson anti and Freddie Welsh will wiH really hook up for Cor the light weight championship of tho time world at Colma Coima Cal aI tl next month Welsh who 1 is now picking up some Iome elf easy monc money in En insists that heis ho he hois is with kelson elson before Jimmy I Coffroth's S 'S club climb abut about the middle of o Oc I tuber tober Although this thin has hH riot not yet Jet been confirmed on the thc coa coast t it be begins ins to look lookas nl as if Freddie knows whereof he lie speaks states that the tho match is for forty forty- five fi rounds at 33 poun pounds s. s A right fight between these two boys R should be ic a good one made Attell look foolish h and held Packey McFarland even n for twenty five rounds Nelson will have h his lila hands Cu full if he ho ever e hooks up tip with Welsh J Jack aek Johnson T picked up tip another pl iCeO O of easy a V mooney on tIll the coast CO last last- Thursday fondled Al Kauf- Kauf maim 11 California joke heavy Y weight for or ten ton rounds Judging front from the reports sent out T did liot make oven o as good a showing as Jack Price when the tho latter four friendly rounds rold ro ld with the tho black champion at tin the Salt Palace Kaufman might have have- stood a show huid ho hue been permitted to use a spear and antI n a ax meat html but merely with n a pair of boxing gloves 1 0 8 08 as UI UIe e weapons pou he re re- a about out all nil that Was Mas in iu store for hun him At L that however Johnson was wasa a bigger disappointment than Kauf- Kauf In because tho the fans expected Yer very litle littie lit lit- tIe le fro from III Kaufman At this thi writing I have hC rave rave- not yet seen the r reports ports from th time the critics who viewed i wed the Limo light fight but hut 1 am alii anxious to note nole their descriptions of uC the he tea pink or possibly the frame Bert Whaling the popular catcher r 11 fr f the tho former Salt Lake team will vilI soon Ki sign a i ll life contract It doesn't t happen to o be he a baseball contract either Bert Bertwill will return to Salt Lake after tho time close o of the time Northwestern league season genson to marry Miss MUs iss Eunice 1 Howe a prominent young woman of or thi this cit city iss howe Howo is is s one erie of the time many man ft friends that Bert made while in the tho city ity but in this particular particular par par- hit bit of or friendship absence has haB made iliadI the tIc heart grow ro fonder tonder so o that hc time big hir catcher i is coming back to Salt Lake Lne to remain hero lucre for all aU time Whaling Whal ing has a host of oC friends fi in Salt SaIt Lake auth 1111 it lit ill ix safe f to tu say 11 that II ho has hns the well wishes of every one ono of oC them Nothing short of or a miracle will stop stor he time club in iu iii its mad mall flight liht for fot the National l league rue championship Barring accidents that would cripple at t t Ica least t half halt of or the hc team Chicago and Rud York have hR shout about much Xe New as al chance chalice to head he ofT Off the tho Pirates a 11 as a n blind man has lias of finding n J needle at the time bottom of or n a muddy murld lake hake Time Tho Pirates ha have put l ut up ump a wonderful wo fight this thin season an anthe and the they hey are arc clearly clearl entitled to brin bringing the championship banner to the cit city of or strikes smoke moke and scandal The Cubs Cub arc aro making a gallant stand hilt but tIle the they will mb do well to finish in second see sec oath ond place phae with tho the Giants Hant to time the next nm rung in time the ladder ladler According to iCeK received from I Australia u Jot Joe Grim who gained irla re r. renown re- re tho man with flown as nR the tho iron jaw th time the former Philadelphia scrapper has luts been placed in n an nn in insane aln asylum 1 at Mel bourne Grim l huns M taken worse on heat heat- iu ings than any other boxer in rin ring annals an au nab minis and the thc terrible punishment p ut he lie received is us undoubtedly th the cause of his hili insanity Sam Langford is oib to he be one Ims busy vc person on for the thc next few months month Just lust five c days after his Imis tussle with J Ketchel ho he meN meets Mike at Columbus Columbu- O. O In October when when- grapes are ripe he be will cross the pond ponti to meet Tommy Toman Burns in London Hugh MCIntosh will wil put on the tho la last t attraction Jack Tack Johnson says Jeffries fl first st and then he ho to the other side aide of tm tho pond lack seems to ha have time the situation sized up lip properly from frOIn tho the man man- ncr ner in which time the t two o have hail had the fans guessing Johnson is about lIne due to hiJ hike as soon as Jeffries lands in iu order to continue the sla stage c pIa play Couldn't nt t it be possible that both Pear Peary and Cook succeeded in in reaching chin the time north poles pole But lint then they th may be Illa a It little Johnson Kaufman-Johnson game gameon on the dear clear public which is over o rend ready to be bo han handed banded c something After ACter delivering crin a short sermon and then singing a hymn the tIme He Rev Rev Kid KidWells Wells called time in a twelve round I bout between Dick Fitzpatrick itzpatrick and anti On Guy Buckles in hi Omaha the other ni night ht Not Nota a very Joo good day for fishing either cither Johnny Chapman has told the hike bike riders that ho will conduct six day races in n D Denver and St. St Louis at th the close of tho the Kansas City affair It sounds a all right But T Ty Cobb is if a Jr great at player but he he- he nor no other player player player-ms is so 80 good that he lie can deliberately spike spike- another pIa player play er or and continue in in- in organized baseball Has lIas it over ever occurred to you you von how do do theo amateur bicycle ri riders d divide their cook stoves stove's after the they have teamed in a race f Wouldn't It be a 1 mint to ta some sorno ambitious ambitious ambi ambi- tiou fight promoter should he be able to stage the proposed Johnson Jeffries-Johnson Johnson fi fight ht in imi New York f fFloyd Floyd McFarland the veteran cyclist C has d declared 1 that ho lie will n never ncr cr follow tollow p pace IC behind a n motor a again in Pretty wise Mac Johnny Kling appears to be losina losing losin a great great deal dral of sleet sleep as ns a result of President Murphys Murphy's threat of injunction injunction injunction tion etc T Teddy d ono itch hua ha has gone to work ore orett at tt tl 1 per day That beats beata tl phasing chasing laps lap all to thunder Ted Teddy f AH li right Ti ht Joe Joc Maddock and 4 Dad Da Con Convill We expect great things of oC you this season l' l First call for the bear stories Now Nets for tor time the rah rab rah hero here |