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Show RIGHT OFF THE BAT. They do queer things In Australia. Now they've matched the human tar bucket. Jack Johnson, colored heavyweight heavy-weight champion of America, with Bill Squires, champion . of Australia, for a $20,000 purse, the match to come off at Melbourne Inside of a month. If the stick o' licorice wins his rhest'll stick out so far you couldn't sit on it and let your feet hang over. Bat Nelson says he came home so soon because he was afraid of sickness and the English good 'uns. The Bat has a heavy cold, which e will nurse for a while at Hot Springs. The Bat also has about 100,000 plunks.' which he Is letting his daddy nurse. They say prise fighting fight-ing Is a losing game for the loser. Dorsey Burgess killed fifty bluerocks straight yesterday at the traps, and later ran 96 out of 100, which isn't so bad for an amateur. Charlie Wilkinson won the skating championship of Utah at Ogden last night. In the Auditorium rink. One mile 3:24. Demarest of Chicago broke the amateur ama-teur billiard record last night In New York by running 800 in eleven Innings. It's a case of hands off in the future with managers after men In other baseball base-ball teams. Thls rule was laid down yesterday, yes-terday, with others, at a meeting of the National Baseball commission at Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, j . i Coach Maddock and Prof. Cummings of the U. of U. need never feel embarrassed embar-rassed any more, jieither need they keep their coats buttoned from chin to shirt flap they've got new vests. Students handed the things to the strong man and the man of brains yesterday with appropriate appro-priate speeches, which were just as aptly answered. Dr. W. M. Waddell Is still winning prizes with his collies at the Los Angeles An-geles show. Arrangements have been made to move into Mullett's old stand Monday, and everything will he ready for the opening of the bench show next Wednesday. Our little tads, the Saintly Midgets, were "trun" down yesterday In a basketball bas-ketball game at Provo with the B. Y. IT. bunch, by a score of 80 to 19. Final game for the State championship will be played at the local Y. M. C. A. gym nest Saturday Satur-day night. Another case of a rep beaten to a pulp by the real thing was the match last night at Los Angeles, when Jimmy Walsh, crack bantam-weight, wilted under un-der Eddie Menney of the Angels. The referee, however, gave the decision to Walsh and had to beat it away from the mob. TJ sawbones are cracking their Joints these days thinking of what they'll do to the other fellows this season on the track. The butchers held a meeting yesterday yes-terday and appointed a committee of five to select members for the track team, to be composed of first and second year-old year-old 8. Socks, skirts, an oil stove, carpet, ten pounds of coffee, 'leven ounces o pork, fly paper, and a duster that's what Kid Bernstein's going to get after his match with the Montana cyclone at Murray next Tuesday night If he wins. And that Isn't all he'll get. - The match will be pulled off by volunteer firemen of Murray. There'll be other prelims. . Chicago has turned us down, but that won't hurt Chicago any. Our Y. M. C. A. boys wanted to join In the A. A. U. fest In the city by the lake, but were barred "cause they are not members of the Athletle union. And to make things worse, the B. Y. C. lads won't meet the Christian laddies again this season. Now the Whyemceeaaa's are going to quit. Kid Farmer of Peorls laid down to Andy An-dy Bezenah of Clncy last night In a boxing box-ing match at Hot Springs, and the fight went to the lad wish the benzine name. Marvin Hart refereed. ' Walter Morrison, light-weight wrestling champ of ol' England, saw seventeen different dif-ferent kinds of stars and stripes last night as he hit the mat underneath Johnny John-ny Billiter, In a wrestling match at Cleveland. BUUter's ability to stick won out. , John Marshall Weir of Chicago, father of golf In this country, has foozled his last foozle. Weir is dead. . There Is walling and gnashing of teeth, whatever that is. In the East these days. Annapolis naval cadets and the U of Pennsylvania can't agree on this year's boat race, and have called It off. This usually Is one of the swellest stunts In that part of the country. How's this for a catch phrase: "Beat or bust, but scrub we must" Lehigh High school. And this Is higher education. |
