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Show ate Hwaaaaifl iMUlfca TRUTH. 14 Sporting Gossip. The handsome diamond medal offered by the Salt Lake Hardware company to the Salt Lake Rifle club was won last Saturday afternoon by Dr. James M. Dart. Fifteen scores were shot for the trophy, Dr. Dart's average for the fifteen being 61 5 per cent, the scores being shot on different days and under varying weather conditions. The medal is a beautiful one and of an at attractive design. It has been worn of members various times different by the club, the high man at each of the clubs weekly shoots being entitled to the medal for the following week. By the terms under which the medal was oTered to the club Dr. Dart is entitled it permanently, but in a truly rvrtsmanlike spirit he has announced that he will return the medal to the lub to be shot for again next season, himself keeping out of the competition for it. 2-- The present rifle club is the first successful one for many yeais past in Fait Lake, and has afforded plenty of good diversion to its members. Especial to due those who, is credit early in the season, conceived the plan for organizing the club, and in the face of much manifested indifference finally succeeded in interesting the more prominent local marksmen in the project, which has proved to be a success. The members of the club are looking forward to an even more successful season next . year. The championship series between the Ogden and Salt Lake baseball clubs was settled last Saturday, Salt Lake, which took the lead from the start, winning as a matter of course. The series was for twenty-fiv- e games, but settled was winner the by the definitely seventeenth game, Ogden having won but four games. To the superior pitching of Elmer Meredith and Harry Newmeyer, the magnificent baseball head of Buck Weaver and a wonderful improvement in batting on the part of the members of the Salt Lake club generally the result may in large measure be attributed. Newmeyer and Meredith pitched. fourteen of the seventeen games, mary of the contests being tight ones, and lost but three. pitching was not the only part of his playing that made him a tower of strength to the Salt Lake club, for his great ability as a hitter pulled the team out of many a pinch. This was also the case with Meredith, who, like Newmeyer, jumped in and won two of his own games by timely hits. These two twirlers can justly claim to be the most formidable pair, both on the slab and at the bat, that ever struck Utah. New-meye- rs Ogden played a very erratic game during the series, and while perhaps if they had been in the form they kept during the regular season they might not have won the series, it cannot be doubted that they would have made a better showing. They were unable to hit the Salt Lake pitching to advantage, and were also weak in the field. On the other hand, Salt Lake largely, it cannot be disputed, through the acWeaver, Newquisition of Bradley, of McNichols the Lagoon and meyer club, improved wonderfully in hitting while maintaining and in of standard the high fielding the club had throughout the season. the players here, although the backers of the teams did not enrich themselves. The introduction of professional baseball into the State was something in the nature of an experiment this year, but it is likely that it will be seen here again next year. If not, there will probably be no baseball, for the people here have, by the playing here this year, been educated up to a high baseball standard and will not patronize amateur or games. There is already talk of a league next year, embracing DenColorado ver, Springs, Salt Lake and Ogden. It is believed that Colorado will be out of the Western next year, a circumstance which will doubtless have the effect of furthering the o scheme for a league. The main objection will be the length of the jumps, and it is also argued that Denver pays too well for the Western league to drop it. semi-professio- nal Utah-Colo-ra- do Utah-Colorad- the matter. There is another and as smaller class upon whom Sir Thomas such sportsmanlike behavior has made wish an Impression that they say they the Shamrock" had won just because it belonged to such a royal good fellow as Lipton. It is safe to say that while Sir Thomass second defeat may have been bitter to him for he really does want that cup the bitterness will not last long. He is not the type that nourishes a defeat until it is regarded as a wrong. Neither should he feel any humiliation. He has fought the good fight twice, fought well, vigorousodds, and ly and to the finish against one of the as to himself, can take he best results of this season's races the assurance that instead of it lowering him in the estimation of the people on this side the defeat has raised him, for the true Americans love pluck and honest competition more, perhaps, than any other people on earth. of the season The initial prize-figwas pulled off in the old armory building Monday night, and resulted in Jack Christy knocking out Jim Francis in the sixth round. The match was attended by more than 600 people, which indicates that the lovers of the sport fistic in Salt Lake are anxious to see some mills, else an attraction like a scrap between men like these two would not induce 600 people to give up $1 per. The result was something of a surprise to mary who saw the two men box last winter. At that time Christy did not have a punch that would break a pane cf glass. He was able to hit the colored man any time he wanted to, but could not hurt him, and it looked as if Francis could have put him to the carpet for the night at any point in the fight. There are some to whom the fight last Monday did not look good. They do not seem to believe Christy has a better punch than before, and while admitting that the knockout, per se, was on the square, they contend that Francis went into the ring to get knocked out. It is a notorious fact that the colored man did no regular training for the fight, and indulged in habits up to the night previous. It is also known that Christy has a financial interest in the club where the scrap occurred. All these things taken together cast a doubt on the proposition. The management of the club would be wise to step aside for a moment and take a look at the thing from the standpoint of the patron of the fighting game. Good, honest boxing-matchin Salt Lake will pay, just as sports on the square always pay here. There is probably more faking in the fighting business than in any other line of sport, and if once suspicion of "phony work gets grounded well here it is good-by- e to the profits of the club, for men wont continue to put up their money to get shot at. Fake has done more than anything fighting else to kill the game in Salt Lake, and now, just when the time seems ripe to get the thing started here again with a prospect of securing some really good fighters, it is well to cut out everything that savors of fake or fluke. ht It is doubtful if the people here in general realized how fine an article of baseball they were furnished with this year, but visitors from the East appreciated it and were surprised at the speedy ball they saw here. The effect of it has been to create an appetite for good baseball, and with that demand to satisfy it is certain the magnates of Utah will use every effort to furnish us with an equally good grade of ball next season. The Ogden team, with the possible exception of Casey, will probably make Ogden their headquarters this winter. Gimlin, Hansford, Clark, Nagel, Plake, McGregor, Hansen and Evans have already secured positions for the winter. Borchers has a bowling alley, and Bluth has an official position in the city, so that all the boys are taken ca e of until the time when the baseball blood begins to boll again. Every man on the team has a chance to play for Ogden next season. Several members of the Salt Lake club will remain here. Clem Kinierer and Dan Taylor have both made this their home for a couple of years past, and expect to continue here. Capt. Webster, Frank McNichols, Dave Ma- candrew (Williams), Billy McCausland and Bradley have about made up their minds to pass the winter here. Buck Weaver will winter at his farm in Kansas, but will probably return in the spring, and is looked upon as a manager of the club next year. Elmer Meredith will winter at his home in Missouri, Ben Hickey in Chicago and Harry Newmeyer in Denver. For the second time Sir Thomas Lip- ton failed to lift the Americas cup, Columbia winning its third straight heat, omitting, of course, the drifting matches which failed to get within the time limit last week. While there is es great satisfaction that the supremacy intent to knock the new club, but of Americas sailing craft is again based on the history of the fight demonstrated, the victory has not game the country over and Is put fo pleased all the people of the country,. in the interest of those who like cle for two or three reasons. The finish in boxing-matThat sport. straight two of the heats was extremely close; so close, in fact, that in the third and even between fighters of indiffer final heat the Shamrock finished ability, will pay here so long as tl first, the time allowance being all that really fight, goes without saying, let us at least be spared such far gave the heat to the Columbia. Peomust necessarily ensue when n close ple say they like finishes, and as we met the night before caro whom vicbut do, the of many people margin about the city enter the squa tory in two of these heats was so nar- ing row that it has raised a serious doubt circle and purport to give an exhl in many minds as to whether the Co- tion of the boxing art. really the beter boat. ExAs it turned out the deciding game lumbia issuch as "If the Shamrock pressions was the final one of the series. A had the Columbias crew the result header was arranged for last Sun- might have been different are to be that the result of this ball teams met last Monday ni, a day, but severe rainstorm prevented heard, indicating races not been sathas years Salt Lake and decided to playing it, and thetwofollowing day the isfactory. There are peoplewholly organis pagood, met clubs with triotic American managers of the leagues one a strictly school pi do who too, people, President Beardsley and the series was not like the outcome. Some of them tion and the other to be compo called off, thus ending the season for say they would have liked it better if 1901. The players. the five heats had been made necessary to determine the victory; others say Utah, ?i Tie?impr1?? the Unven T, they would like to see Sir Thomas car- University and Salt Lata? th It has been a successful season, both ry the cup across and make us go after Collegiate Instltuteotlalt for the patrons of the game and for it, so as to arouse greater Interest in and the Agricultural College of run-getti- ng cl i double-- non-stude- nt while the other league will consist of the Y. M. C. A. of Salt Lake, the Davis County Nursery team and the National Guard team of Salt Lake. A commit, tee has been selected to arrange a schedule of games for each league, and the schedule will be submitted at a meeting to be held this evening. HI The design is that teams from one of the leagues shall not play with teams from the other, thus keeping the school and college championship separate from the championship of the outside teams. The plan appears to be a good one, and should help to make the comfor footing season a record-break- er ball here. of the Club team and president Denver Wheel of the club, was in the city during the week, and while here closed with the Y. M. C. A. for a game to be played here October 26th, providing satisfactory railroad rates can be secured, for it is a big Jump from Denver to Salt Lake. The D. W. C. is one of the strongest teams in the West, and as Harry Insley, ex-mana- ger the Y. M. C. A. will have plenty of good stuff in it this year one of the greatest games in Salt Lakes history should be seen on that date. A return game will probably be played in Denver early In November. D. C. Macandrew has been secured to Mac knows coach the High School. perhaps as much about football as any man in this part of the country, and A just about the right man to lick the High School boys into championship form. He has been working them hard through the week, and will soon have them in good shape. The L. D. S. University team made a vi:e move in securing George Richards as coach. The big fellow knows football both from the standpoint of a player and of an expert critic, and if the team does not win games it will be through a lack of ability rather than a lack of instruction. The line-u- p of the National Guard team has been announced as follows: Lund, c.; Lynch, lg.; Kidder, rg.; Hauerbach, It.; Bentley, rt.; Russell, le.; Woolley (captain), re.; Tovey, qb.; Gunn, lh.; Lee, rh.; Bert Margetts fb. Tat Taylor will coach the team. There is likelihood that a game between the Olympics of San Francisco and the Salt Lake Y. M. C. A. will be arranged. The home team will probably go to the coast should the game be closed. Manager G. R. Webb of the High School Juniors has announced his lineup as follows: It. Weyler, lh.; L Chugg, le.; D. Pitt, .t.; O. Eldredge, lg.; L. Farnsworth, c.; W. Cary, rg.; D. Murphy, rt.; R. Booth, re.; L. Sowles, rh.; I. Webber, fb.; E. Pearce, The Y. M. C. A. team, which has been placed under the able management of Sam Porter, will probably enter the arena this season with the following players: George Worthen, Mort Allen, Hill, Dan Taylor, Dana Smith, Walter Seare, Frank Roberts, Nephi Thomas, Elliott, Bert Margetts and D. C. Macandrew. This is subject to change, of course. The positions are yet undetermined, but it is almost certain that Worthen will be center, Allen and Hill guards, Taylor and Smith tackles, Seare end and Macandrew fullback. right There is plenty of good material available in addition to the men named, so that a strong team Is assured. |