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Show Sporting Gossip Help I Help! The White Wings have hit the toboggan and are going downward at a gait that is simply astonishing, while the "luck" of Dad Gimlin's Lobsters is just the same as it always has been. Can't some one head them off? Lumley is tired of the job, and it's doughnuts to dollars that Rogers finds he is up against a harder game than he bargained for. The fans of Salt Lake are wondering, "How long, oh, Lord! how long, until Salt Lake has a pennant-winning team?" The season isn't over yet? No. but it's rather late to think about heading off that hated Ogden bunch, unless the Salt Lake team begins to hit the horsehidc and make runs instead of errors. Get into the game, boys. No, this is not a knock, but simply a plea for a little faster ball than the White Wings have been dishing up. They can play the game if they will only come out of that trance. Jackie Clarke set a new record mark for the half-mile out at the Saltair track "Sunday night, going the distance in :50 2-5, a gait that will hardly be equaled for some time to come, as conditions were fa-Gf fa-Gf vorablc for the speedy little Australian in every way. The tennis tournament is on in this city, being the fourth annual meeting of the tennis experts of the inter-mountain section, play beginning be-ginning on Monday. There were fifty-two entries in the men's singles sin-gles alone, and there has been much interest manifested in all the contests. There will be something doing in the swimming line next Saturday, Sat-urday, on the occasion of the .Y. M. 0. A. tournament, when H. V. Altree, the crack long-distance swimmer, will attempt to lower the state record for one mile. Altree has covered the distance in 34 1-2 minutes and expects to do even better on Saturday. Twenty thousand people saw Tommy Burns, champion heavyweight heavy-weight pugilist, administer the knockout drops to Australian Bill Squires at Sydney on Monday, the end coming in the thirteenth round. Squires showed up better than in any of his previous fights, probably because he was up against a less classy fighter than the pugs he tackled in America. The dispatches announce that the fight was a fast one, Squires being the aggressor in the opening rounds. He couldn't stand the pace, however, and was being counted out when his seconds threw up the sponge in the unlucky thirteenth. Burns was a 6 to 1 favorite in the betting at the ringside. Nevada's fast horses will be entered at the race meet to be held at Reno on September 28, 29 and 30, when purses amounting to $1,200 will be hung up by the Elko Jockey club. Fishing parties returning from trips to Provo and Duchesne rivers and the Strawberry, on the reservation, declare that dynamiters have made fishing a joke. Dead fish can be seen floating along these rivers at any time and the finnv tribe is rapidly being destroyed by ' these ruthless pot hunters, who evidently have not an ounce of sporting blood. Tf there were a few men like Bill Bingley in that part of the state it would be a godsend to the disciples of Tsaak Walton. Forty-four harness horses were entered in the great harness event of the year, the American trotting Derby, at Readville, Mass., on last Tuesday, the winner pulling down a purse of $50,000. That Sir Thomas Lipton is a dead game sport and has unbounded admiration for American sportsmen is evidenced by the fact that he sent $300 to the fund for welcoming home the American team of the Olympic athletes. In the archers tournament at Chicago of the National Archers association, C. S. Cosgrove of Atchison, Kansas, won first place, with a grand total of 619. Mary Williams, a 19-year-old Chicago girl, won jitr woman's handicap, with a total of 510 points. Chicago was se-w se-w lectcd as the meeting place for next year. Local gossip has it that McFarland and Clarke have dissolved partnership and that in future Mac will not do the "donkey act" for the Australian. If this is true, Mayer may have a better chance to head Clarke in future, as it is an undoubted fact that a large pei-centage pei-centage of Clarke's victories have been due to the fact that Mac pulled him to within sprinting distance of the finish. American Fork has a few sports of the right kind, and they were treated to an interesting event one night last week, when a couple of Utah boxers were matched for the gate receipts and a small side bet. The scrappers were Joe Clark of Lehi and Nephi Gledhill of American Fork. Clark getting the worst of the argument, which lasted six fast rounds, and the short end of the purse. A baseball team from Fairbanks. Alaska, has struck the Sound s country and will make a tour of the states if the weather and the game nut up by their opponents doesn't prove too warm for them. Miss Elaine Golding. champion woman swimmer of America, successfully defended her title last week, when she defeated three other fast women swimmers in a three-mile race across the Hudson river, her time being one hour and forty-five minutes. She didn't have any time to lose, however, as one of the other ladies finished just one minute behind her. McLaughlin of Butte is again the champion tennis player of Montana, having for the third time won the title at Helena last ( week. Matheson and Agars of Great Falls were the winners in the doubles. A Denver paper announces that a brother of Bobby Walthour . and a nephew of Adam Forcpaugh of circus fame arc planning a six- j day bicycle race to take place in Denver in October, it being their t I intention to secure the Auditorium for that purpose. The face is to l be full six days and $3,000 in prizes will be offered. |
