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Show WITH THE SPORTS. The quail season opened Tuesday morning, but we havn't heard of any one getting "the limit" up to the present time. The U.' of U. football team has played three games this season and come out 'victorious 'each time. Seven Sev-en more games arc scheduled for the season, and the boys are confidently expecting to make a clean sweep this season. There will be no winter games between be-tween the California state league teams and the Major league clubs. The California state league ii an "outlaw" league and the "organized" teams arc not permitted to play with them. Eddie Quick, the blonde-haired pitcher who performed on the Salt Lake diamond in the days when we had some r,sal base ball, has been handed his release by the management manage-ment of the San Francisco ball dub. Quick was injured sime time ago and has since been unable to pitch. The world's pacing record for iwo-ycar-olds was broken at Oklahoma City, Ok. at the state fair racing course by Slum Beauty, a gray filly, owned and driven by Frank T. tea-mira tea-mira of Ncwkirk, Ok. The mile was made over a half-mile track in 2:194, the previous record being 2:ioVs- Battling Nelson has announced that he has tin-canned Billy Nolan, and will be his own manager in future. fut-ure. Bat has a meal ticket scrap scheduled for Red Lodge, Mont., after af-ter which he will go to Minat, S. D., where he has a bout framed up for a small sized purse. The main sporting event in Salt Lake this week has been the National Nation-al Coursing meet, which is scheduled to last until November 2nd. Some of the best dogs in the country arc entered, and lovers of this kind ot sport declare that the meet has been a success up to the present time. A good many people do not fancy this class of sport, and one trip is enough .for them, while there are many who will not miss a meet if it is possible for them to attend. The Sal Lake bowlers opened the season on Tuesday evening-., when three remarkably good games were played, the contesting- team being the Business Men and Hanes' Colts.. The Colts took all three games, howling howl-ing a total of 2755, while the Business Men scored 2613. A. W. Smith was high man, with a total of 634, while Mark Rccdall, who has a council-manic council-manic bee in his bonnet scored 620 for three games. Only one of the ten men fell below the 500 mark Captain Cap-tain Barrett, who had an unusual amount of hard luck. Herman Duryca, the wealthy sportsman, has paid $15,000 for the yearling colt Strike Out, by Griffin-Pillardcx, Griffin-Pillardcx, as the result of a fast Trial by the horse at the Shccpshcad Bay track recently. The horse went a quarter in 22 2-5 seconds, and several sev-eral horsemen who saw the trial, among them Duryca, asked for a price on the colt. Mr. Duryca secured the prize. . The practice of "fanning out" baseball base-ball players has been dealt a body-blow body-blow by the National Baseball commission com-mission by a decision of the commission com-mission to revise the rules governing sales with options for recall of play- 4g-crs 4g-crs so as to provide that all such options, op-tions, in cither major or minor leagues should be made by August 20 01 each year, and the players required to report at once to the club oxcr-cising oxcr-cising the option, with the further provision that no club could enter into such contract with options for recall more than once for' the same players. |