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Show Salt Lake, and Ojdca.: Ball leans Cross Bats, at ' '. ' Walker's Field This Afterncon. . ;. It was "opening day"" Tn "Salt' Lake' ' That met defeat; .' The ' Jumped on 'era, ' 1 Landing with both feeU : - ' r wasn't In It; Couldn't find the bait ... v to . This will be about alt Salt Lake. - Ogden. . Muller. 1. f. Bluth. r. f. Ktickney, r. f. ' Clark, lat b. Delmas, es. . Hausen. C Thornton; lstb. Gimlin, c f. . ReMy, 3rd b. v Fulmer. 3rd b. , Leahy, c . Hastings, 1. f. Hayes, o. f . Bear. 2nd b. rVBrlen. 2nd b. Breelno, ss. Toser, p, ( . . . Dowllng, p. Hay. Queen. Not in It. ' '.. Were we called early today? Why. son, we almost remained up all night In order or-der not to miss any of the festivities. .Talk about being Queen of the May! Why.; with this triple A-A-A brand of . weather the .element man has slid out to us. and -our bright prospects for vlc- torr this afternoon we feel almost as giddy: as a bright young miss on commencement com-mencement day. . Today Is surely the day. It is the day we well, perhaps It might be better to say it" Is the day we "may" celebrate. 'At any event It is the home opening of the baseball season here and we're out to see the Reilly ' boys win. - We'll be there with bell on too. W got next to the best suit in the store the one marked "Nobby. Choose me. Take me..'hoine..for $8.25" In order to be properly "garbed for the occasion, wj are not the only one out with the glad apparel. Everyone who is who la going to Walker's field this afternoon. Big Attendance Promised.' Who will be there? It wfil look Hkfr four-fifths ' of ths city directory. The other fifth will have to remain back uptown" up-town" to see that no lone stranger comes to town to loot the city. For once all business cares are forgotten. forgot-ten. The gathering of mere pelf Is forgotten for-gotten and quite a secondary matter compared to the tying up to our belts or the Ogden scalps. ; ' . The Mayor of the city, the Hon. Richard Rich-ard P. Morris, will be present-and what does the "P" in Mr. Morris' name stand for? Son, you surely are slated for the kindergarten row again. The "P," of course, stands for "pitcher." Long years ago at the christening time It was predicted pre-dicted the time would come when he would be Mayor of Salt Lake and thus como into he honors of starting the bail rolling in the pennant chase; so accordingly accord-ingly he -was named "Pitcher" and will this afternoon toss the sphere or orb or "it" into the arena and the- game will commence. ' Predictions of Captains. Lack of space prohibits" the giving of individual opinions of each player as to the outcome. Captains Reilly and Gimlin Gim-lin say it is. all over but the shouting. Owing to our coming from this section of the -.State -we lean to the hope that Captain Reilly Is right In the classics of the game X we pray he has the bulge on Gimlin. If results prove that he hasn't there'll be no further putting the title of "Captain" to his name. Will we call him a "private" thent Son, the word falls us right now. but you can bet your Webster's unabrtdjred that we'll have a handle for. Reilly that will toe as fat below be-low the plebeian position of "private as the title of captain Is usually regarded above it ' The boys had an automobile party to day to the extent 6t being ridden around town for a full ninety minutes in tow of a brass band. They were escorted by the foot guards In the personages of as many of the uniformed amateus baseball teams in the city as could get away during banking hours. Off for, Battlefield. After the Ogden and Salt Lake players had given the people the chance of eyeing eye-ing them right up close and calling each one by his first or front names they were then chug-chugged down to the grounds where the massacre is to take place. The game will start punctually at 8:30, according to Secretary Shepard's Inger-soll Inger-soll watch. A cordon of police will also be on the' ground, not to protect the watch but to see that ' Umpire Setley. who will do the honors. Is not interfered inter-fered with a la San Francisco style, which In ehort means being struck over the head with a baseball bat to convince klm be should change a decision. The two teams will also do the "grand march" around the diamond if ail the water has been removed. It Is ssid that the grounds wilf be as dry as a prohibition prohibi-tion town as Manager Reilly bought a 20-cent sponge yesterday, reduced from 16 cents, and that "Red" Is busv at work acooplng up the rainfall with it After the march-around the' green the two sides will select their bench snd water wa-ter bucket and get to work. Then the band will begin to toot -j Musical Selections. . In -the musical programme there I nothing but "Hall to the Chief" and "See the Conquering Heroes Come" and "Marching Through Ogden," and other Inspiring tunes. No thought has been given of funeral marches. If Ogden should win! Perish the thought But if it should it would be a case of a dirge and requiem that would do for a Russian Rus-sian "battle" hymn. .The quatrain at the top you fill In yourself. your-self. If you fill In the right name winning win-ning and It ehould be "Salt Lake." you're entitled to a cookey with an ounce of pepsin in it. "But if the "Single O" wins in the designating of "0"gden. then glory be we will wish that we had overslept over-slept ourselves ' this bright and glorious May morning. Reilly, Reilly, Reilly. It's up to you. |