Show r WALTER SPORT ru ruI WE can believe all the reports hunters bring us from va I JF IF parts of ot the state the limit of ot six sage hens per day and t tv for tor the entire fifteen-day fifteen season Is not making a hit Ma Mathe Mathe the fellows got their seasons season's limit without much difficulty O Oat oa first two hyo days I Many of ot them no doubt find Ind It tempting t to tojo i Just a little mUe and land the seasons season's limit on the very first d day Park valley in the northern part of ot the state again furnished prize shooting Of ef t the state although all of the fellows elbows who went I and knew where to go bagg bagged d all the chickens they had a rigI rig shoot Wasatch and Rich counties furnished excellent shooting did Summit Up to this hour of ot the spreading of the Ink we wel I received very few reports from other parts of at the state Th Thare The Theare are In excellent shape this season The spring hatch was more morg than usual and hunters hunters who are careful In selecting birds and who refrain from shooting at everything that gets up easily pick out young chickens which are a delicious morsel morse this season of the the year I T IS probably a little mUe rough on the wool the bas I IT fa tan ran to note the gradual diminution ot of news relative to th the Ji game same manifest on the sporting pages but what is I loss Is some other fellows fellow's gain for many summer days h hI I come and gone since so much much general and Interesting sporting c co I ment has appeared In August Sports that formerly got less than honorable mention In the d dof dof of manifold box scores now loom up with three-deck three heads head what used to be erstwhile junk has suddenly become good ne news Question Did we spend too much money time and labor these box scores jH Some of us think so Of course fans w want nt to know what I do but the vast majority of ot sportsmen could be made mad c tent with the final score batteries batteries' and a statement of the This department may not be a very good one for tion and yet It is modestly contended that sports In gen genes would be more economically conducted If it baseball box s adores ores gi- gi eliminated at this time j jIs Is this radical All right so are a good many other mod suggestions m We Wo have been running riot riot that's that's what we have been doing oln and some of or the radical things that have occurred recently will I good or us in the future VERY interesting an and Illuminating report recently was wa rue ma maby rueby A by the United States vice consul In London who says m. m t during the war the demand for athletic goods in Engla dr diminished about 60 per cent on all goods except f tb boxing gloves and baseball equipment This Is Baseball boxing and football are gameS soldiers The age limit for tor service In England is 41 and nea every Englishman under that age has been taken The fellows play games are at war and so they buy footballs boxing glo gloves es baseballs as part of their war equipment nt The extent to which baseball has entered Into the arm n be Judged when the fact is stated that in the Canadian arm 1917 1917 the there e were regularly organized and playing baseball tear ta a with not less than to other teams which played more less regularly It is estimated that in Europe at the present ti there are not less than 2000 baseball teams so organized organize as as' as Joji to quire even uniforms and certainly all aU the other Including balls bats gloves masks shoes and protectors H The books of a single London concern show what ma may be In 1915 this firm imported approximately wo worth U baseball equipment So far in 1918 it it has Imported nearly worth VM On the other hand such games as cricket tannis and go golf f a suffered The demand for necessary equipment to play these gan a ahas has tall fallen en off oft nearly 70 10 per cent since the war began fl It is a peculiar situation which sees sees' baseball killed in its land and thriving like a weed in strange soil soli It is almost to consider It nonessential to citizenry and indispensable 0 git 0 soldier There is one consolation tho gh and that Is that the there glorious days ahead for football boxing and baseball When W d boys get back they will be essential made so by popular |