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Show Perhaps the heat has gone to the beads of this Butt bunch. You just have to bani it to this bo v. T. Raymond Cobb. , If you doo't, he II swipe it when he wants it. As somebody puts it. ''the difference between Ijetroit and Philadelphia is Tv Cobb. ' Jaik Johnson needs some more f?so-line f?so-line for his car, and watch him begin to rake in the kale in a very short time. These wise boys who laughed at Me-Graw Me-Graw for his investment in Rube Msr- 3usrd are now befrinnins; to suspect that obnny knew what he was doing. 8t. Louis has offered $16,300 for O Toole and Kellev, and Chicago has hiked the offer to $20,000. Now what club will step forth and take the pair for $6000 f Why doesn't some live promoter matchBoiubadierVella nd Larl Mor ris for the heavy weight championship of England and Oklahoma The opposition faction of th told vou so clan now is directing attention to the fact that Detroit and Philadelphia Philadel-phia are back where they were two months ago. wfth the season that mueb farther along. Did you ever know that this same horse Don which is making such a won derful showiug among the 2:08 horses on the grand circuit was at one time btimpe-1 about in the liverv business of bursts of a hrew. The New Yorl scrapper and his manager Hwve beet shouting ever since they were fortu nate enough to gain two popular de cisions over the champion. Qnce, noi so long ago, there were manv welcomi and -receptive ears into which the) could unload the tale of their conquests but now that Wolgast has frnven him self a real, crystal pure, unadultemter champion, Morgaa and his protege hav taken to the methods made famous by the windy city buncombe artist, Packei McKarland, and wi(h the usual result have only succeeded in making a laugh ing stock of themselves. Most every one in fact, everybody who is at al fair minded and understands the cir cumstances under which the two bat ties in question were fought will have to admit that the Champion fought under wraps, and that even with Wol gaat holding back the ew York fa vorite's showing was such that it would not warrant his backers any excess joj should he be matched for a longer bat tie with Ad. Morgan Is not very anx Jous to take his boy outside of hit bail "wick, and until he does so bis preten tious claims will not be given muct consideration in this part of Unci Sam 'a territory. Danny seems to re gard New York with as much respeel as a Chinaman does the grave of hii ancestor or a eolored man the Mason and Dixon line, but he will either hav to change his religion, 'alter hit "speil" and hie himself westward with his youthful phenora so that scribes in this section can get a glimpse of hit genius, or be put down with the rest of the immortals presided over by Ananias Ana-nias and Doe Cook. this .-lty for pricea below UUt It'i a fact. William E. Johnston of Denver, one of the best known athlete, who over attended college in the state, has been appointed athletic director at the school of mines, to succeed Capt. Will C. Bryan. Boxing "bugs" are also to havo a treat next month. Matty Baldwin vs. Dick H viand in a. twenty-round bout looks mighty eoorl. and let 'a hope that the promoters will make this bout the cleanest and beat ever, just as a little lit-tle demonstration to the knockers that boxing is not the rowdy same that some would picture it. This fellow Charles Olson is still talking about wanting to eome here and wreetle Uemetral, but it is principally "talking" that he is doing. Demetra! defeated Olson three time., and states that ha will never give Olson another chance to make a dollar with him and that the only conditions under which he will meet the Indianapolis man is in a room with .iurt a few friends present pres-ent and for a good side bet. This fellow fel-low Demetrnl, by the way, is some wrestler and ta a match for any of the light heavy weights in the game to day. Chester Button returned last week from the east and, after having seen nine different leagues play ball thii summer, he paid the Union league and its able leader, William H. Lucas, a compliment that local baseball fans may not have weighed. What is more, Mr. Mutton is not the first to pay Mr. Lueas such a compliment. Many times Lucas has been pronounced the best disciplinarian disciplin-arian among the minor league presidents. presi-dents. Strict discipline among the players and absolute protection from the league president to his umpires is absolutely necessary in the running of a aucceseful league. Lucas is every bit of that and then some. Sporting writers on the circuit which Lucas or-gsnized or-gsnized about seven vears ago (ths Northwestern) do not hesitate id stating stat-ing that they would welcome the present pres-ent Union league president's return to that circuit. Much has been said concerning con-cerning the relationship between umpire and plaver. Everything connected with this relationship has been suggested and talked over more or less and the general conclusion has been that umpires um-pires must be -roteeted in all circumstances, circum-stances, and that the assault by a player, however (Treat the provocation may be, is never justified. Thia seems to be a necessary conclusion from ail the circumstances. Otherwise there would be no restraint npon players and it wonld be impossible for the major leagues to employ nmpirea at (11. A realization that nmpirea are to be protected pro-tected in all circumstances may have a bad effect. Umpires should re me m-ber m-ber that they have obligations aa well as players, and that they ought not, by word or deed, invite , or provoke players to assanlt them. An umpire who is at himself never gives grounds for assault. When player tries "run in" with him on any decision the expert umpire knows how to handle the situation without endangering himself. The trouble is that there has been possibly pos-sibly too much authority given umpires, or to pnt the proposition in another way, nmpirea have become somewhat arrogant under the well defined impression impres-sion that tbev will not be blamed, no matter what happens. An occasional disciplining of umpires would help fully as much as the disciplining of players. You bicycle fana, smack your lips for a real treat in the racing game. Johnny Chapman, the big man behind the bike game in the east, has promised to bring out his champions, Frank Kramer and Jackie Clarke, and show them before the Bait Lake public in competition races against the best men we have here, .lust how Johnny can afford to lose their services in the east and bring them out here at this time is hard to imsgine, but Johnny must still have a fond spot in his heart for his former home. Chapman will arrive here August Au-gust 3 with Jackie Clarke, that great little Australian, who looks so good to win the American championship this season. Clarke will meet Iver Lawson in three match races between August 4 and A, and National Champion Frank Kramer will come here to meet the winner between August 11 and 15. If that isn't a treat in the bike game,, it would be impossible to find one. Iver Lawson should be at his best, just as are the boys who are coming out here to meet him, and the Swede will have an opportunity to win bark that title which he lost a few vears ago; and, what is more, he viil have a chance to go after the ehampiona right on what might be termed his "own track." It is a rich dish for the fans and something pretty rich for Iver Law-son Law-son aa well. As a nsnal aftermath attending the Wolgnst-Moran fight come the belated explanations and volley of challenges. This time the latter are more vehement and possibly a trifle more bitter, but none the less laughable. Danny Mor gan, the excitable manager of K. O Brown, exploded daily during the past week wih a tirade against the eharo pion which would do credit to the out |