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Show n uai iiw Nap Lajoie, pet of the East, and tha whole thing In American, league baseball. haa Issued a valuable baaeball guide for 1907. The book isn't very large, 'cause what Nap doesn't know about baaeball wouldn't All & very big book. Willie FltigeraJd, . the man who tnad Joe Oi.ir loV; rick, ar.a who as s'opped by Pete Sullivan, met Unk Bussell, who Vm defeated by Young Donahue recently. recent-ly. In Philadelphia laat Saturday night. Latest reports of the match are not out yet. ' . i -... Jack O'Brien Is looking for Tommy Burns. Burns wm matched with Jack kt, Los Angeles for May . and was to have begun training about the fifteenth ' '- tnitb The laat heard of Burns fee was In Milwaukee touting George m.... m uls matcn with Charlie Neary. Tonsllltls. fever malaria, stomach-ache, bum ankles, asthma, rheumatism and spring fever this Is what the Cincinnati Keds cot for going to practice at Austin, Tex. Half of the bunch is on the sick list, and the other half on the way. Jimmy Britt is willin to meet Gans for 69 per rent of the gate receipts to the winner. Nothing small about Jimmie. 'Terry Turner, topnotch shortstop of the world, married not long ago, and Is taking tak-ing his wife with him on his practice tour. Jack "Twin" Sullivan, brother of Mike "Twin," will meet Jack Palmer tomor-t tomor-t row nifht at I-og Anseles- Mik "Twin' meets Honey Mellody at the same place on April 23. Spike Robson, champion feather-weight of England, meets Young Erne, whom Donahue defeated, next Saturday night In Philadelphia. Abe Attell meets Robson April . . . . Willie Iewls defeated Eddie Chambers of Philadelphia not long ago in New York City In Ave rounds. Sharkey arranged the match. . ... Two of Yale's best sprinters, George Butler and Lester Stevens, are laid up with appendicitis. There was no fight between Gus Be-sonah Be-sonah and Kid Farmer, scheduled to take place at Hot Springs laat week, because the father of the former died suddenly. Every cloud has a silver lining. ... 1 Matty Baldwin, champion of New England, Eng-land, who was cleaned to the bone by Young Donahue, defeated Freddie Cole at Indianapolis recently, and did it with ease. Baldwin wasn't even scratched. Cole will be in the future. ... American Fork won the Utah county basketball championship Saturday by defeating de-feating Lehi. Score; 18 to 16. The winners win-ners are drinking to victory out of a silver sil-ver cup, worth all of 30. .... High school strong men are working hard these days. They will be hard as bones when the great meet comes off In Mav Folowlng is a list of boys trying for places on the baseball team: Catcher, Stephens and Davis; pitcher. Hammond and Arnold; first base. Coates, Dale and Wrlghj; second base. Coombs; shortstop. Sheets and Thomas; third base. Hammond Ham-mond and Blllines: fielders. Hulbert. Ausler. .1. Gunnell. Worthman, Loot-bourow, Loot-bourow, Arnold and Thomas. . . . ' Dick Hvland meets Cyclone Thompson for the third time tomorrow night at Frisco before the Hayes Valley Athletic club. Hyland Is the favorite. Jack Welsh will referee. .... T. J. Wadsworth Is manager and H. M. Royal secretary of the new Lehl baseball base-ball team. Good men are In demand by the club. ... Jack Christie of this city meets big Chris I,und at Ephraim. next Friday night. Jim Williams, the fighting Salt Lake cop, will referee. No crooks have recently been released In the county of which Eph is the seat, neither hava there been any kicks against boxing exhibitions. ex-hibitions. . . . Ben Mortenson left Ogden yesterday for Gulfport, Miss., where he will play with the Cottonwood States league. Ogden Og-den remained. ... Our Y. M. C. A. basketball team lost the championship of the State Saturday at Logan, to the B. Y. C. bunch, by a score of 34 to 14. The game waa exceptionally excep-tionally fast and clean, but the Youngs were the better ' Vam Den Born, tills Is not profanity, champion biklst of Belgium, heard of the local saucer track, and is anxious to come here for some of those good American Ameri-can eagles. Frank Kramer has notified John Halvorson, manager of the track, that the champion of Jersey will be here in time for tho opening event. ... At Atlantic City today the tournament of the National Bowling association opens, and will continue until April 8. The biggest cities and the best men in the East are there. ... B. Y. V. boys are working hard on the track these days, and have arranged the following schedule: April 20, class meet; April 27. U. of U. and B. Y. U., at Provo; May 4. L. D. S. U. and B. Y. U. at Salt Lake; May 11. A. C. U. and B. Y. U. at Provo; May 25, State meet at Salt Lake. Jack Hume, who used to cut the wind on the local saucer track. Is now teach-ing teach-ing school In Kansas City, and refuses to come out and play with the professional riders. . . Eddie Graney has put up $10,000 as a guarantee for the Gans-Nelson bout, which he's after. He offers a purse of $35,000. which is $5000 better than; Tex Rickard has done so far. ... Bobby Walthour has been secured to ride on the local track, and will cross the big drink seen on his way home. He will bring his famous motor with him, also a mess of frog legs Tonopah is throwing spasms over the big fight fest to be held there April 10. Mike Riley, of the Casino club, has matched Percv Cove against Phil Knight, John Wille will go agin Al Kaufman; and there will be others. Big money is up and the event will be one of the biggest things of the kind the country has seen for a month o' Sundays. |