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Show Sporting Gossip I Billy Samuclson is getting some chesty since his defeat of Hardy Downing and Floyd McFarland at the pace following game, disposing of both of these fast riders in a manner that would indicate they were back numbers. The fact is, Sam has been 'raining for pace following the greater portion of the season, and has nc t been a shining success as a sprint rider, while Hardy and Mac Have not trained behind the motor and have been cutting into the money in the sprint races with a regularity that means a few dollars for a rainy day. The greyhound racing apparatus out at Walker's field was given its first trial one day last week with gratifying results, in fact every-thing every-thing working out to the entire satisfaction of the promoters. During this week there will be a number of try-outs, in which the dogs will be used, the owners of fast running dogs being given an opportunity to be convinced of the success of the scheme. In a short time it is expected that regular races will be scheduled. J. B. Hume, the lengthy bike rider who two seasons ago was the king pin among the riders at the Salt Palace saucer, but who laid out for-one season and apparently got out of condition, made his first win of the season the past week. Jack expects to be in the money from now on. President Cowan of the Salt Lake Gun Club intends taking a team from Salt Lake to the big booster shoot at Anaconda, Mont., on September 8, 9 and 10, when some of the best shots in America will be in competition. Tommy Burns, who recently defeated Bill Squires at Sydney, Australia, says he is now ready for Jack Johnson, the colored pugilist, but wants the fight to take place in Sydney. If Johnson is as anxious to meet Burns as he claims to be, he will jump at the chance to jour-ney jour-ney to Sydney at once and mix it with the foxy heavyweight; but it's a hundred to one bet that there will be a prolonged talkfcst before they get together. Clarke and Mayer, the speedy riders who have been the drawing cards at the Saltair race track this season, and who are under con-tract con-tract with Johnnie Chapman until October 1st, have been ordered cast and will ride at the Madison Square Gardens and Valcsburg. Now we will see if Kramer has everything his own way. The Sunday ball games resulted in the usual manner. Ogden de- , fcatcd the Occidentals in a game that was marred by the senseless kicking of the colored boys, while the White Wings indulged in their usual comedy of errors and were beaten out by the Murray" "smokers." The regular season of the' Utah State League closes on Monday, Labor Day, when the pennant will be awarded to Ogden, the winning team. But the fans are to be provided with base ball just as long as it is possible for the boys to play, and President Tobin claims he has fixed it with Doc Hyatt to have good weather for many days to come, and it would not surprise him to sec the games continue until Christ-mas. Christ-mas. The boys arc all getting in first class shape, as a result of which these post-scries games should be the most interesting of the entire season. Big Al Kaufman put the kibosh on Jim Flynn of Pueblo in their recent scrap at Los Angeles. Kaufman had his man going in the eighth, the gong saving the Coloradoan. In the ninth Alfred landed a poke on Jimmic's jaw that sent him to slumberland until the referee had counted him out, and then some. Salt Lake is the home of the champion black sea bass fisherman of the world. At Catalina Island last week Phil H. O'Mara landed a bass that weighed 240 pounds, six pounds heavier than the previous record catch, it taking him four hours and thirty-five minutes to con-qucr con-qucr the monster. The trophy team shoots for the Browning medals, which were to be held in Ogden last week, have been postponed until September 17, when the best marksmen of the state will try for the prizes. George Morrison Read's ball players didn't do a thing to the colored boys the past week but hand them a crate of lemons, the colored fellows not getting a look-in during the series. Besides besting the colored boys at every turn, the clever Colorado players gave them a needed lesson as to the proper conduct of a real player on the field, and especially in the face of adverse decisions from the umpire. The colored players have established a reputation for the biggest beefers that ever played before a Salt Lake gathering of fans, having simply made life miserable for the umpire, and disgusted H many of the fans. They should take the lesson to heart. Jim Jeffries is to referee the scrap between Stanley Ketchel and Billy Papke at Los Angeles on Labor Day. The battle is scheduled for twenty-five rounds and will be for the middleweight title, Ketchell H being the favorite in the betting. H "Dad" Convill, prominent in Utah athletic circles, met with an H accident in a mine at Alta, whec he is working, last week, that will (Continued on Pago 7.) SPORTING GOSSIP (Continued from Page 5.) lay him up for a time. It was at first reported that he was so seriously seri-ously injured as to preclude' further athletic work, but happily this y report was greatly exaggerated. Norman C. Hopper, the popular bike rider ho came so near being killed on the Salt Palace track, will have to undergo a second operation, his physicians fearing that some of the snlmters that entered en-tered his abdomen have not been recovered. It is not believed that this second operation will prove dangerous. Abe Attell and Owen Moran arc to meet at Coffroth s arena, San Francisco, on Labor day, to settle the question of supremacy and decide who is to be champion of the featherweight division. Attcl is said to be below weight already, while Moran has to reduce but four pounds to be ready for the battle. t . President Tobin of the Utah State League is to take a hand in keeping the ball players up to form, and in future any of the boys who object too strenuously to the decisions of the umpire are to be handed a fine that will hold them for awhile. Un ess the members of the Occidental team change their tactics, some of them are liable to 8 SChssvP baseClbaPll' is played down in the Panama country since. Uncle Sam began work on the big ditch. Players from the United States are imported, of course, the games being we 1 played and hot y contested. The season starts in December and lasts until the middle of June. News comes from Fred Walker, coach of the Agricultural College Col-lege football team at Logan, that he has been making good as a pitcher for a semi-professional base ball team in Chicago, but that his contract has expired and he will soon be with the White Wings. Fred McLeod of the Midlothian club, Chicago, won the fourteenth four-teenth open championship of the United States association, at Hamilton, Hamil-ton, Mass., defeating Willie Smith of Mexico by the score of 77 to 83. Walsh, the crack second baseman who came to Salt Lake with the Luxus team from Denver, has been signed by Manager Rogers, and will guard the second bag for the White Wings as long as the game continues in this city this season unless he is overtaken by the usual Jonah that fastens on to every player who hooks up with the Salt Lake team. "Whiskers" Devonevitch, the Russia bike rider, broke into the limelight as a speedy one on Friday night of last week, when he crossed the tape first in the finish of a two-mile lap race. "Whiskers" "Whisk-ers" was given an ovation by the crowd and was carried off the track on the shoulders of his admirers. Jake Raleigh, Salt Lake's street supervisor, is thinking seriously, it is said, of challenging for championship honors as a pedestrian. On a wager he recently walked from Salt Lake to Provo in fourteen hours and fifteen minutes, he having wagered $100 that he could do the distance in less than fifteen hours. He was accompanied on his walk by W. E. Katz, who made the distance in fourteen hours and twenty-five twenty-five minutes. |