| OCR Text |
Show Sporting Gossip William J. Travis, the golf champion, was the winner in the final match played on the links of the Garden City Golf club at New York City for the president's cup, defeating Chadwick E. Sawyer. Preparations are under way for a tournament between Salt Lake and Ogdcn wrestlers, to be held in Ogdcn on May 22nd. The tournament is to be held under the auspices of the National Guard, and the best wrestlers of the state arc to take part in the contests. Tommy Burns seems to be suffering from an enlarged cranium. cran-ium. He is out with the statement that he can whip any two heavyweights heavy-weights on the globe in one night, barring Jeffries and Jack Johnson. There are plenty of people who will have to be shown on this proposition. propo-sition. As the result of a broken ankle, Iver Lawson may be out of the bicycle racing game for a greater portion of the season. It's too bad, too, just as the popular local rider was getting into shape for what looked to his friends to be one of the most profitable seasons of his career to come a cropper as the result of a bum ankle. Law-son's Law-son's indisposition will leave Frank Kramer without a single worthy contestant on the Vailsburg track. The west has again demonstrated its supremacy over the cast. Stanley Kctchell knocked out "Twin" Sullivan of Boston on the twentieth round of a scheduled thirty-five round battle at Colma on May 9, after one of the bloodiest contests in many a long day, the Montana man putting Sullivan to the bad with a scries of body blows that looked as though they had been delivered by a pile driver. Sullivan Sulli-van seemed to stand a chance of staying up to the ninth round, but from that time until the end came, the little western scrapper simply ' played a tattoo on the anatomy of the bean cater that finally was more than he could stand. About a thousand sailors from the fleet were present, the attendance being the largest since the Burns-Squires Burns-Squires contest. The annual shoot of the Idaho-Utah Sportsmen's association, held in this city last week, proved to be one of the most interesting events in the history of the association, in spite of the little joke played on the shotgun experts by the weather man. At the three-day meet some excellent scores were made. Charles McClure of Tremonton, Utah, won the individual championship medal, breaking twenty-five blue rocks without a miss. E. D. Fannin, of Sandpoint, Idaho, won the Salt Lake handicap medal with a score of forty-eight. The Becker Beck-er team trophy was won by the Wasatch Gun club of Ogden. The next annual shoot will be held at Ogden, under the auspices of the Wasatch Gun club, in the spring of 1909. The people of Salt Lake I and the members of the Idaho-Utah Sportsmen's association may , well feel proud of the record made during the three days of shooting by the trap experts who vc;c in attendance from Idaho, Montana, Utah and other western states. At least $3,000 was given away in prizes during the tournament, and a number of trap shooters of national reputation took part in the different events. The shoot was I a success from every standpoint. The track and field events scheduled to take place last Saturday between the University of Utah and the University of Colorado were i j .. , called off, the Colorado students having a sudden attack of cold feet. I The reason given by the Colorado boys were their protest of Brin- ton, the Utah sprinter, and Russell, the Utah weight man. They ob- J :H jectcd to these men, hence the contest did not occur. " H Between thirty-five and forty riders are practicing daily at the )H Salt Palace track, getting in shape for the racing season, and the H way the boys arc going at the present time it looks as though Salt H Lake is to have the fastest bunch of riders in the history of the -H game. I , Captain I. N. Barratt, who acted as official referee at the three-days three-days shoot held at Wandamerc last week, won additional fame for the manner in which he conducted the affair. The captain is a thor-ough thor-ough sportsman, a first class man with the shotgun himself, and ' had little trouble in keeping things going as they should. , It is expected that at least one hundred rider. will take part I in the Decoration day road race from Salt Lake to Lagoon, all of the best amateurs of the state taking part. Manager Rippcto an-nounccs an-nounccs that he has secured to date thirty-five prizes, including five bicycles for the first four men across the tape and the time prize. ' The slate championship sockcr football game played in Salt , Lake last Saturday between the Ogden and the Salt Lake teams re- . fl suited in a tie, neither side being able to score. Another game will ' be played in Ogdcn today, when it is expected a decision will be reached as to which team is entitled to the Dayncs cup and the state championship. It seems that the endurance race being promoted by the Denver Post is to take place after all. Since objection was raised to starting , the horses within the confines of Utah, Evanston, Wyoming, has I fl been chosen as the starting place, instead of Ogden. It is claimed fl that if the rules of the contest arc strictly enforced there will be no element of cruelty to animals or hardships upon the riders. The fl race is to start on May 30, ending when the racers reach the office of the Post in Denver. "Jackie" Clarke, the speedy little Australian who is being picked as the king of the local bicycle tracks this season, is anxious to lower the colors of Kramer, the world's champion. It is barely possi- 'M ble that a meeting will be arranged between these two speed mcr-chants mcr-chants on the local tracks some time during the coming season, and if such is the case, it will prove to be the most exciting contest ever pulled off in this city. Clarke has a large number of admirers in I Salt Lake who believe he has progressed sufficiently to give Kramer ' the contest of his life, even if he does not succeed in winning from the New Jersey man. |
