Show f. f Weeks Week's Sport Gossip I By Walter D. D Bratz r 1 Helena wont won't you please hesitate a t Hayes quit Hayes quit with r th Swedes S f. Annis' Annis pitching pitchin record to tois J is nothing short of remarkable dor dor ler if William H. H Lucas knows bb has liae an II league league- I p i r has ere discovered that if l Vit does docs not affiliate with hi his hi s. s PaYlon Weston is still going oin m are ara many who believe that the theft ft fellow v is about gone one that one could not ot blame the fans ans cither either McKibbon came caine near neal 8 ri right ht here hore in peaceful 1 Zion 1 i-as i gratifying news indeed to learn dismissal of Umpire Barney Mc- Mc c on The Tho poor follow fellow needs a yam vaca- J quiet school for the blind hood within hin good fi fights coming coining up it 9 iD future fut future Billy Billy vs s ul J f Jul July 5 Colma and W i Nelson elson y vs Ad Wolgast July An Angeles eles Sm j Lucas 1 Farnsworth arnsworth Barnes Ion ou on and Marshall are wise vise they will one oae of the tho next neat weeks week's series to toL t.-Lako t. L Lake Cit City instead of playing in ill te Ue i o baseball fans may ma manot not be wit- wit big ig the best baseball in the world they are having the excitement tearing the umpires umpire's S 'S clothes off is C fat Sport but wonder onder that Pittsburg is lead lead- tho National league Three of its thi Dumber 11 HYatt Hyatt Wagner and aud Cl Clarke Clarke- re among amon time the first live Jive in In the 1 eague and two of its pitchers pitchers Cam Cam Cam- nitz J-nitz and Willis Willis rank rank first and second the league pitchers V J U t question of whether or not the IiI of Wisconsin 1 baseball team J f-J DuM make the trip to Japan should I ro been settled bottled by the state le legisla- legisla sla Like ours hero her in Utah it tackled j al ost every other proposition Ba Battling Nelson knocked out his old sparring partner Jack Clifford the other day dav It took Bat just rounds to do fHt the it-the the same samo length lendh of time as in the battle in Ogden January 13 1908 Tho The ThoC C boding boing lovers at Oklahoma City must 5 l to o pretty soft There Thero has been beon considerable contro- contro 1 A tI jV versy between sporting men all over the V T. T as t to Ketchel's nationality It Ita hh a j been claimed that he is strictly while others have claimed t- t liis hois Polish There is some truth 1 latter statement Ketchel was Grand Sn Q Rapids Mich his mother r an hn in American and his father Po Po- JAb ill Therefore Stanley is strictly leaking American born and of Polish nt Ketchel's Ketchel S 'S father is not a large an anby by an any ally means standing about 5 it t 6 inches and weighing about ida 18 His mother is is of the average e e e. e His Ills father is one of the sturdy nd id and nd comes from horn good old Polish Jck 1 Jie ie e Salt Lake team has bas now been beenie beene je ie e almost two weeks and it is acting en more natural than it did before spin in o over the it The team has hasan an n winning regularly and anel fighting ad id and hard bard with Helena Iclena for first firste fee e The rhe new additions to the team ro 0 e proven en a tower of strength th Head 15 more at home on third McQuaid sure Rt and aud Kelly eIly is one of best natural outfielders outfield rs in tho the ue at this time the team and Man Man- pr need every ery bit of sup- sup C can lD bo ho accorded them thern- Those fro o love Jove baseball should hould be enthusiastic er ar the record of time the local bunch and T mid uld boost it Salt Lake has the best team it has bas had in years and 1 already has a large number of loyal Joyal it That's us ns who are sticking bv by good si sign alga n. n It always helps r Stanley Ketchel after having picked tl Jt ba-a ba tew few dollars in Denver where it is issy w easy so sy to do this little stunt has landed landin land land- f ed in Frisco with but a few days remaining re reo re- re to condition himself for his 1 bout b ut with Billy V V When Ketchel runs ito up against f for Ler the fourth time at Jimmy Coffroth Coffroth's s 's sj j of arena July 5 lie he will fight one of the toughest boys he lie has met for several long days Ketchel is willing to admit that is the toughest middle middleweight f f wei weight ht now fi fighting defeated i Uv i 4 K Ketchel in their second meeting and in H. H the third Ketchel made look like a tenth rater Now gets another ance hance 1 anee But if Billy loses this time he heas hen n ight as well go o back to the coal I game ame T E. E Tones Jones former manager for now DOW ma manager er for Wolgast states liat i t Ketchel will ill have nave the hardest time i X liis bie is life in trying to put away is s time Jones Tones claims that was such tuch poor condition tho the last time he ht Ketchel th that t Wol Wolgast ast could have havo ten him Ketchel W was s away off color beat him perhaps him perhaps o I off in the tho last bat battle tIt So on one Jion on was in bad condition ton on n the time other Ketchel was in that The l losing sin fighter always puts up a alock 1 lock luck story but critics were also for the poor condition stories IA these lese two batU battles s. s 7 hen en again Ketchel had better beat 1 P if he fi figures ures strongly on the much of match with Johnson J S S. S Still another thorn is pricking Jack Tack Jacki I i This time it is je Joseph Jeantte Jean Jean- black bruiser who stirred tte te the burly S an an eruption on the other side of the i pond by whipping Sam McVey eVey and 3 of other otheT lemons 1 6 purses were wre getting too small in to suit Jeanette Jeanetti and he to America to seek eek another draw with his African broth broth- thil Artha ATtha Tensing n is not at all aU pleased over the theof thet t c rn of Jeanette for it be begins ns to look lookas as I I if tr there is is trouble on the horizon orizon for lOT tho the ethiopian mixer from Galveston T Tex c. c Jack Tack and Joe Toe have mingled in the ring on six different occasions They TheyS S fought three no decision derision fights one draw and each gained a verdict S Every very time met Mis Mis- is- is tab tah Jeanette the aforesaid Jon Jon- sin lIin sing knew full well that he bad had been in ina a fight for Jeanetto exchanged ed wallop for fOl wallop with him Then too there is isono ono one Samuel Langford Langford Lang Lang- ford to bo bl taken into consideration Lan Langford is il after bouts with Johnson and ana Jeanette Why not let these three negro nero scrappers fi fight ht it out amon among themselves themselves them them- selves and Rud match the tho winner with Jeffrie Jeffries Jeffries Jef Jef- fries frie or Ketchel First match Ian Langford or and Jeanette and sal let them go o to a finish with wilh no limit set to tho the number of roun rounds s. s Then pit the winner a against Jack Johnson for a finish affair After this last bout the best black man nian would have been decided and anel then match him with Jeffries Jeffries Jeffries Jef Jef- fries or Ketchel A series series 8 of such pu pugilistic encounters would surely clear up ill the horizon When Jim Tim Corbett first firt be began an fighting fight ing jog his father was very erV much munch set sot against the turn which which his athletic son had haa taken in life Pa Corbett always lowed th that t no prize fighter ever eer came e to a n good end and implored Jim to give up his boxing box ing lag aspirations Corbett Sr wanted Jim to stick to his job ob in a Frisco bank One day ilay Pa Pa Corbett had a a. heart to heart talk with Jim Durin During the course of the conversation Corbett Sr said Jim the rolling stone gathers no moss Just remember that A few years afterward when Corbett Corbett Cor Cor- bett whipped John Joha L. L Sullivan and returned returned re reo re- re turned to his home in Frisco with a good sized size fortune Corbett took tool his proud father asHe ui and whispered in inthe inthe the tho old mans man's s 's ear Well Veil dad maybe may may- be the tile rolling rolling- rollingstone stone gathers athers no moss moss but it takes the wandering bee bce to brin bring home homo the hone honey Just stick a pin in that There Ther is a concerted movement in baseball to do away with tho the steel spike While the men men who promote the tho national pastime are not going goin on record re regarding ar in their crusade a against the spike nevertheless they are arc working together together to to- gether on something that will replace tho the dan dangerous erous turf and flesh cutter worn on the shoes by the leather chas chas- ers are Ba Baseball magnates who pa pay large sums for players do not care to risk losing their services through accidents by the tho deadly spikes It is becoming n practically a daily occurrence oc occurrence oc- oc currence for a player to be taken out of a game ame on account of bein being spiked There There is no telling how disastrous a wound will become after a player has been gashed by spikes It is very rare that blood poisoning in a more or less erious serious form does docs not set Iet inThe in in The careers of such brilliant players as Larry Lajoie and Mike o Donlin Denim have nearly been ruined through h being spiked Hundreds of other players have ve been laid up for weeks at a time on account of spikes There is so 10 much complaint against the spikes cs that it is high time some substitute be bo found for them Have Ha-e you noticed every year how youn young ball players go from front smaller maller leagues to larger ones upon their reputations as demon emon hitters only to be besent besent sent back to slower company a month or so after tho the season opens It hap happens ens in n every league ne every spring Blooming Bloomin phe boys bos who fairly blazed a path of fire firo through the league they go JO from do not last when called upon to mako make good in company com corn pany pan a few d degrees grees rEES faster Thoy go alon along for a short time some lasting longer than others accumulating ing lug base hits at first with monotonous regularity then not so frequently and by and by the safe ones are arc few and far between Then tho the youngster goes oes back Well Vell theres there's just one ono reason for this the the pitchers get et onto the bloomer Knowing Knowin nothing at all about him when he ho breaks in tho the pitchers go it t blindly and hand the ball baIl to him just where he likes it time and again Consequently Consequently Consequently Conse Conse- he be gets ets hits About the time tho the clubs have swung around the circuit once the pitchers havo have discovered disco tho the recruits recruit's weakness and they hey play him bim with skill born of experience Pitchers han hang together like a bunch of grapes They confide to each other tho the strength and weakness of every man It does cloes not take a good catcher long to discover the weakness of a battel batter batter bat bat- ter tel and he at once confides his discovery discovery ery cry to his pitchers and they in turn tip off the tho hurlers on other teams so 50 it itis itis itis is no wonder the poor pathway is not strewn with roses and lilies |