Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 9 | Sport Gossip

7 TING 5 TER WALiER D. D I I This department has a letter for J. J C. C Fred Crabbe announces that he lie will wilt show how us Joe and his famous scissors on on the tenth of S March It will be e a a tre treat t w worth rth s seeing ing at that In In their great desire to fo athletics at the thc University o of Utah th the thC athletic council actually has hopes of inducing Joe Maddock to return Sounds too tox good to be true Mackay Ida would have something to say soy about that for that busy little burg would be compelled t to suspend existence if Joe left there even for only one football season Utah needs another another an an- other Joe Maddock badly badry Above all at any rate the athletic ath ath- letic council is again howing the right spirit the spirit the thC kind of pep that is is bound ing to bring results I I How How many days Figure it I yourself for a change Add to the list of well weH known free agents the following George Stovall Otto Knabe John G Gan- Gan n- n zet zei and Hal v Chase They're all free to get a job on any club outside outside out out- si side le organized baseball Frenchie Boyd will insist on three judges this time He was was' robbed again 1 last Week Te Tex Rickard isn't the only bird gambling on 0 the Moran Willard-Moran fight Think of the bugs who will cough up twenty-five twenty bucks bucks' for ringside seats Likewise suppose it should end in a minute Note to the foreman of the corn com tI 41 posing room You room You may ditc standing head ned about his hold holdouts ts 1 While there is a sort of I standing between base al alI I and players that nobody wi WI get the tho worst of it fj b bof of his connection with the F league still there are onel players I am afraid who wi it a little bit difficult to br fares bres organized ball this year l are one or two fellows who over to the Federal i which one could ly Iy imagine w would uld be si those with whom they m marto may mar to negotiate for a return think of one or two this sort Of course there ther no blacklist of former F stars stars stars-of of course there will It is against tho law and nr interested in organized bal bal think for a moment of violate law There are aro more than c two ways of skinning a though and while I know th tha a single solitary player blacklisted still stilt I cannot hel think that one or two of ther the find it mighty hard to ge get into the game I could names of one one ne or two wh ir irwill will depend on the attitude ball toward certain Fal f fal al players but I leave it t i t I readers to find out what ti to some of the fellows felloW'S t e ey may may have havo in mind Preparedness just at thia this thi a national topic and o of c the preparedness which is is s stalked talked about is that which do with war There is a p pp gp ness however which given attention and letic lotic preparedness It h has hal urged seriously of late tha that hi i youn young man In the Un United ted t who is s strong enough to stan stai exercise should be taught t not only for the sake of h hea l for the sake of the his liis services should be nee f has b been en urged that if available citizen soldier i United States should be nr in the manly art of self seif lei le this country would presen a which would be almost i iW yin The idea is that men mens men's s muscles supple t tej qui k their blood naturally their min minds mind's s I en active Boxing makes and energetic and an arm t tIn in boxing is likely to be efficient than an army train tram all the intricacies of military ry tics and movements Be boxing would interest y young ung where compulsory military ing would irk them I amin am am- he in favor of teaching ing bO tH every young man in the COLInot coi cou not for military preparedness S for athletic preparedness II 11 ly Iy believe that tha every boy boy 11 be taught boxing for the go go will do him physically a and 1 tally not necessarily for the th pose cf of fitting him hin for army I am not so keenly impressed the efficiency of boxing as s a instrument It might have bee I if modern warfare conducted as it was fifty ago but when I think of ofir r warfare with unseen guns s' s l inn ina and killing unseen en ens ene miles away I am not convi that athletic agility is ia necess SS S'S a forceful appurtenant to toOs Os me