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Show . I j Sporting Gossip '3j 1 l-ojir to two! That is the story in a nutshell. By this slight margin mar-gin Chicago takes the pennant for the third consecutive season, and l for the ninth time since the league was organized in 1876. A magnifi- cent crowd witnessed the defeat of the New Yorkers in New York j where the game was played. Nationally and locally it was the most important baseball game of the century, even of American history. I5 The Cubs are proud, Chicago is proud and many Salt Lakers who had money up on the wrong end of the game sneer at their pride. Only six cars finished in the second international twenty-four- . . . ! hour automobile race, at the Brighton Beach race track. George " Robertson driving Simplex car No. 6, was the winner, while Harry Cobc, driving a fifty horsepower Losier machine, was second. The Granite High school football players proved the best "mud horses" in the contest with the Salt Lake High squad on Saturday, the score being 2 to 0. The farmers won out within ten seconds of 1 the call of time in the last half. One dead and five injured, with half a dozen machines smashed, ) was the record made during the twenty-four-hour automobile race j i j at the Brighton Beach race track. J I It was reported last week that the owner of the Chicago Na- f j Uonal league club had offered the New York club $50,000 for the ' I release of Christy Mathcwson, the crack pitcher, and the offer re- i fused, the New York manager declaring that Mathcwson was not for i sale at any price. This is the record price offered for a ball player. ' j When $10,000 was paid for Kelly's release, it was thought that would . be a record for all time to come, but Chicago figures that RIathew- ' j son is worth five times what Kelly was in his day. I Interest in basket ball is being revived, the Y. M. C. A. boys ' j being especially smitten with the basket ball fever. Candidates are trying out for positions, and it is figured that some excellent ma- j tcrial will be developed this season. j |
