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Show WITH THE SPORTS. Muggsy School is in Zion, training for his twenty-round boxing contest scheduled at Ogden with Billy Finu- canc. The Tribunc-Aincrikcarns ball team is a very sore bunch since the chocolate-colored Occidentals trimmed them for a two-fifty purse. The lobsters and the soldiers played play-ed a fast game of ball at Ogden on Sunday, the score being 4 to 2 with the rookies on the short end. The nine little tailors have found sonic one they can lick. They put it on the Occidental Chocolates to the tunc of 12 to 2 on Sunday. Tex Richard announces that he will hang up a $20,000 purse for a go between be-tween Mike Schrcck and Australian Squires at Goldfield on Labor day. Ivcr Lawson, the former champion bicycle rider is a dencdick. The ceremony cere-mony was performed at Farmington, and the bride was formerly M'iss Twelves of Prove Clark still leads the professionals in winnings at the saucer track, while MoVris, Moycr, Schticll, Giles and Crcbs arc carrying off most of the merchandise m the amateur races. r""e" Martin J.Shcpard, of New York, last week set a new world's record for throwing the discur. Hs- hurled the Greek plate 136 feet, 10 inches, beating his own record, made at Montreal Mon-treal last year, by 17 inches. The Seattle and Butte bunch of ball tossers got cold feet and refused to play at Butte last Sunday. The diamond dia-mond was covered with nin'q inches of snow and the boys had forgot to lay in a supply of snow-shoes. Abe Attell and Freddie Walks will not battle in Cripple Creek on Independence In-dependence day, the featherweight champion having declined the offer of $1000 guarantee win, lose or draw made him by the Cripple Creek sports. Frank Mantell has fixed up training train-ing quarters at Murray, while Judge is getting ready for his match with Mantell at a Salt Lake gym. Judge, it is claimed, is an old-timer, having had three bouts with Joe Gans when he was a lightweight. Tom McDonald, the Denver sporting promoter, is making plans for an international boxing contest on July 3rd. The plan is to erect a tent with a seating capacity of 7,500 on the outskirts of Denver, and have a 20-round bout between Dick Ilyland, the San Francisco lightweight, light-weight, and Jonny Summers, the English Eng-lish lightweight, the main event to be preceded by a good preliminary and a battle royal between half a dozen colored boys. Another umpire "has got his'n." After a dicision which the crowd did not like during a New Haven-Springfield game last week, Dick Crocker was mobbed by the fans, some of whom held him while others cracked bats over his head. He is in the repair re-pair shop with 'every tooth in his head broken and his face pounded to a pulp. Bobbie Walthour, the world's champion pace follower, will ride on the Salt Palace track during the month of August. It is said that negotiations have been on for several weeks to secure Wjalthour, and in order or-der to come here he had to purchase his season's contract In Europe in order to be released, as he had been signed up for the entire season there. Walthour has no equal. Wiser, Idaho, has a phenomenal pitcher. His name is Johnson, and he is but nineteen years old, yet his record of pitching 66 innings, with 198 batters facing him and not one making a score, has never been equalled in base ball annals. Joe Cantillon, manager of the Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. club, has offered Johnson a contract, but the kid has declined and will play the string out in Idaho this season. Samuelson, the pride of Provo, is back on the saucer track again and is riding in good form. There is a story to the effect that Samuelson demanded a contract which included a liberal bonus from the management manage-ment at the opening of the season, and when told that he placed his price too high, declined to ride. The purses pur-ses being hung up were too much of a temptation for the Provo rider, however, and he has concluded to ride the balance of the season, which will be cheering news to his many admirers. t |