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Show ; j J U VUAHXJ I - end By Steve Moloney Sportdom today ia aorrow-- aorrow-- Ing over the 'death of President Presi-dent Warren Q. Harding. Everywhere, wherever athletes, ath-letes, semiathletea or, devotees of wholesome 'recreation fore-', fore-', gather, there pervadea an air of gloom, apirit of de-. de-. ' pression. if' In Salt Lake, at the golf courses, at the Jennia clubs, at every recreational center, flags are at half mast and everyone renders .homage to the fallen leader. - . y Throughout the nation "all baseball gamea scheduled for -V odayhaTW been -taneeled,-ten-nis tournaments have been postponed and golfing events are likewiae.-atricken off the calendar. ' . . Never before has the head of the nation meant so much to sportdom. President Harding was the true type, of .sportsman.. He was an enthusiastic golfer, an ardent devotee of the diamond, a staunch supporter of tennii and a lover of thereat outdoors. out-doors. Throughout' the time he hBS held the-office of chief executive of the nation he has not been too busy to heed, the needs of the sport world or to participate himself in the joys! it offers. ' It ia doubtful if there will ever again oe head of the nation who ia such a staunch supporter of sports. . j I Sportdom may well mourn the loss of the president. .-M .-M e e a ' Pet Ppworth. tar hurtw of IHk J T'tkh Btktk leamie And noted Snlt f Xm.M.9 AtnAtkur. left todkr for Twin Fkllk. Ida. wher. he Ik to pitch In crucial name for the Twin FkJIk tram In thk BoIm VkJIey leAue. pel haa a arent reputation ao a t wirier In thla aectlon of thk country. coun-try. . . t ' Deputy Shoriff Mihk Mkukk found V moonkhin, atill In Parley', ean-I ean-I v. yn ya.tarday. Ha broke into I I poetry. ' V Seoond South Sam found a moon-. moon-. hia atill tho othar day and ho I broke into a daneo. I . 0. fickle- Mum. O, Fickle Moonehina. president Oeorwe Thoma, of the fniverklty of Utah hak tklten up olf accordlna; to report, from the Fort Dale Oolf elub. ,M . Pr,!dent Tnomae once nld that portk ,hould not Interfere wllh tudlee. If Preeldent Thomaa hak heen properly bitten by the olf hu. he may aoon ba Incline to retract. re-tract. ' Up in Shelby, which aeven theueand and two people will 1 remcmbar a, a wild little town an the Great Northern, nowapa-per nowapa-per men made quite a fuaa over Patricia Salmon, prima donna in a oiri ahow which waa ataged in a tant there. A, a reeult aha got mora publicity in New York City than Ina Claire or Gilda Gray or Boo Palmer. In fact, "Prineeke Pat" be-came be-came ao famoua that ehe has been offered a Job with leg-field'. leg-field'. Follies, and hae wired f'om Mueeellkhell, Mont, that , eh, will head immediately for I Broadway. I Thia ought to mean aome- fj .' thing. Either tho deeert ha, rte beeutlee -or -newepaper men J have their hminatorma. f Unlverelty of Utah, left Mondar r'' John Buckley, aectlon foreman for M the Southern Pacific at Pitta tm re. Y . ral., la the proud father of Tim I Buckley, who ta at preaent making rood on the vitelline ataff of tha rian Franclaco Sealk. A etory running- komewhat aa follow, recently appeared In one' of the bay newt-papera: newt-papera: It la aald that th father knew very uttte about thik came of baseball base-ball that bl, aop was aor absorbed In. ao he made a trip to the trklnlna camp to vet an Idea, what sort of kport fhlk rim. waa. When he arrived ar-rived at the park luck wouM have It that Tim waa pitching In one of the exhibition games. The lnd was tired from long exertion and his control waa (ilfhtly .off, an he wae motioned Into the outfield. Pa Buckley watched In alienee as hlk cffeprlna- walked .to the outfield. - "Well," aald Buckley Br, when hla Indignation would hold no longer, long-er, "well. If Tim couldn't throw that ball from where h was standing (the pitcher' e box), how the devil le he going to throw from 'way out there?" - . |