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Show V TRUTH I gpovtfno Gossip league season circumstances ntiened under favorable attendance Saturday, with good The Utah baseball i lit of both in Salt Lake and Ogden, plenty for the time enthusiasm, good playing for a successof year and every promise Governor Wells ful year. At Ogden, S. Critchlow of the and President John 'i I the game between league, inaugurated and in Salt Lake Ogden and Lagoon, Thompson delivered the first Mayor ball, both' games being preceded by street parades. 5 and get one of the best men on the gone east. W. E. Samuelson is still in later how he Utah, and will race here if the induce- ments prove strong enough. Samuel-so- n is a great card in the east since he The Ogden team seems stronger and King made their debut as the t$an ever trust Gimlin to get hold of Mormon Tramps at Madison Square, the right men. For pitchers he has and he is rather inclined to go back to McCafferty, Thomas and Hansford. It the land of the effete, unless negotiis stated on the best of authority that ations he now has on with the Salt Palhe has also secured Pete Dowling of ace people are satisfactorily closed. Smith is still about Salt Lake, as the Louisville National league club Eddie are plenty of other amateurs. There is sad that Dowling will arrive at an some talk to the effect that Eddie will early day. In addition to these Gimlin turn professional this summer, but Edcan jump in and pitch good ball him- die is a very wise little boy and can be self almost any day, so that the Lob- trusted to remain amateur for a year or sters are plenty strong on twirlers. two yet. Oscar Julius has not been His infield is probably better than ever sighted lately, but he will doubtless with Clark, Casey, Berry and Ferris, spring up with the early June roses, and with Gimlin, Blutn and Lefty wearing that same old smile and willing Nagel in the gardens the team looks to go into any kind of a play to earn a few dollars. away strong. club. We shall know comes out. .ft ft . There will be some changes necessary before the race gets close, especially in the Salt Lake and Lagoon clubs. In ft ft exft ft Borchers the Salt Lake club has an There seems to be quite a fighting re. cool-headHarry Stoney, the indefatigable lit- vival in Salt Lake and the athletic club perienced and splendid pitcher, and effective always, and a man tle Coloradoan, has put in a team at is a of on ed all about the game. Nephi Thomas, the Salt Lake youngster who alternates with Borchers, has made a magnificent record as an amateur and fine- profespromises td develop into a who knows - he has the proper coaching. He has been doing fine work to date, but as the pace gets hotter and the men get to hitting better he will probably find it hard going. It is the experience of every youngster, proved time and again. The boy seems to have the right stuff in him and looks sional player, in time, if like the goods. The addition of Thomas Kelly who has been secured from the Butte team is a good one and will do much good to strengthen the club. But three pitchers, one of them a youngster, are hardly sufficient for a professional team playing every other day. For this reason it is safe to say that the Salt Lake club is not yet strong enough in its pitching department. That Borchers and President Joseph realize this is shown by their efforts to land Elmer Meredith, the twirler, who was with the club last season. Meredith, however, seems to be up in the clouds so far as salary is concerned. All he asks is $175 a month with tickets for himself and wife from the coast to Salt Lake.' This seems to be a trifle high for this little league and the chances are a cheaper man will have to be secured. Aside from the weakness in the pitching force the Salt Lake club seems fairly strong and promises to make a left-hand- ed good showing. ft ft Some little unpleasantness was caused by the jumping of Billy Hulen, who thought he saw something better in Sacramento and left for it Saturday night. His place has been filled but it is strongly intimated that he has designs on Salt Lakes infield and has announced that he is going to send for I This is a new experiment the placing of a professional baseball team in a town the size of Logan but it looks as if Stoney had made no mistake. He has brought with him two of his old stand bys, Bill Hoffer, and Mell Barney, and has Ducky Pace for catcher. With Young Roy Hartzell, Eddie Hahn and Richards he has a strong pitching corps, but' not content with this, has Newmeyer, the famous southpaw, and Glaze, a Colorado college boy with a phenomenal record, in sight.. Stoney needs one infielder and will doubtless get him shortly, ft ft The Lagoon team is again in the veteran Buck hands of the old Weaver. The club wont do as it now stands. In Tann the club has a good twirler, heady and clever, but Graham, unless he changes mightly, will not make good. Behind the bat Buck has Billy McCau8land, last years backstop for Salt Lake. Billy is hardly in condition for good playing yet but he seems strong and believes he has his hitting eye back. aLast year he had wrong prescrippoor sight owing to tion given by an oculist, but with this overcome he expects to play the game of his life. Buck, himself, seems friskier and more coltish than last year, and skips around like a youngster. Always polite, gentlemanly, cool and a good ball player at all times, Buck has won a high place in the estimation of the Utah fan. Of last years team Buck has only Bradley, but that is a considerable, as those who have seen the little outfielders terrific batting will testify. Buck also needs an infielder. ft ft The Salt Palace bicycle races will be Logan. . given under the management of Frank E. Schefski this year, and this means that the track will be handled scienSchef is a tifically and successfully.' veteran of the National circuit, some of his marks left in 96 still standing. He knows the game thoroughly and the banner season of the tracks history is assured if the new manager is given full swing. He is already in correspondence with several noted professionals, and new expects to haye a dozen or fifteen meet the for track faces at the opening en Decoration Day. ft ft There will be some favorites missed at the track this season; Poor Billy Vaughn and Honest John Lawson, The Terrible Swede, both died during the winter. Iver Lawson has gone to Paris to race, Gussie Lawson expects to remain in the east, John Chapman has gone to the Southern circuit, although he expects to return in the early summer, and the Turvilles have it business, part doing quite the square. Some new men legitimate fighters are needed. The leading heavy now adhering to the community Jim Burns has sturdily refused to go after anything but easy money, and has jumped on some ancient memories and newer wuzzes like Mexican Pete, the rock pile veteran, and Dummy Rowan, who is not one, two, seven with a real fighting man. Burns status was clearly defined by Gus Ruhlin, who made thirty kinds of a monkey out of him in their exhibition last fall. Since coming here Burns has taken on nothing but easy ones, and people are getting a little tired of it. The smaller men have been doing a better business, a notable fight being that between Jack Clifford and Jack Wade, when the former knocked out the invincible champion of Montana. One would imagine by reading this journalists description that the audience was made up of a lot of drunken who whisked their bottles rowdies, from their pockets and drank and d in plain view of the spectators. The truth is that every man in the audience was the peer of this noble minded knocker, who is always shoving his nose into some mess, searching for a far fetched moral, in point of sobriety, and his superiors in intelligence. It was no rowdy gang, but made up of the best people in Salt Lake. Not a few very eminent were present. Had this person cast his eyesabouthim he would have seen that the bottles he mentioned, were not whisked from pockets, but bought of the peanut boys at live cents each and contained nothing stronger than plain soda. It is indeed tough when a society reformer, like the individual referred to, has to prevaricate in order to point out the gravity of the situation. ft ft A word in your Osborne: Manager ear. Suppress this fellow Sunshine. At first he was amusing, then he become tiresome, now he is a nuisance. If he has a home, send him to it. If not, get him a job somewhere wheeling brick. To not let him make a monkey of himself any more. It isnt funny. Just pitiful. ft ft The last meeting of the Blue church will doubtless close its career. Let us hope so. It has degenerated into a nuisance. In future the man who pays to attend its sessions deserves no sym- pathy. gol)-ble- Save your money and when you get a dollar deposit it with Zions Savings ft ft Hal Brown has been placed in charge Bank and Trust Co., No. 1, Main of the race track at Calders park for street. The largest and oldest Savings the season, and is making great efforts Bank in Utah. Joseph F. Smith, President, to revive interest in the game. Brown George M. Cannon, Cashier. can come as near to waking things up as anyone, probably, in the state, and A. representing the Arit looks as if something .would be doing kansasSteinmetz, Live Stock Insurance Company n 'horse racing at last after all these ' years of nothingness. The only thing of Little Rock, Ark. , is in the city in open to criticism, probably, is his an- the interest of his company. He intends nounced intention of running his own establishing an agency here and doing horses on the track under his own business among the farmers and stock management. growers of the state. ft ft ft ft Truth congratulates the manageThe management at the Lagoon is ment of the Salt Lake Athletic club on making many improvements and alterts action in setting aside the decision ations at the resort, which will be for- an of Referee Bennett in the mally opened for the season on Decorafight. There never was a ranker tion day, May 30. New cars will be put decision rendered. Whatever the facts on the railroad to Lagoon and quite a may have been this paper will hot' pre- large section of new track will be laid. tend to say, for it does not know for i certain, but Tom Bennett either had money directly or indirectly on this fight or he was badly rattled at the supreme moment, for certainly his decision was one of cool judgment or it was not. Truth feels to commend AND CARPET STORE Chief Hilton for his part in inducing the club management to set aside the decision. It was what should have been done and any adverse criticism is wrong and uncalled for. With a view only to do a kindness to the manage51 to 57 ment Truth would suggest that in arcard future East First South St. preliminaries pie ranging jugllists and meal ticket scrappers be jarred. Attracted by the good purses lung up the town is too full of these iiUUUUMUUllliUUUUlUilUnUUUUU jrake beam tourists who would be wiling to be knocked out with a brick bat W. H. CLARK . . . for the sake of getting a square meal. STOCK ft ft II BROKER. should There is another matter which Mining Stocks and not be overlooked, and that is the stateSSSrSiu.on a I, Semi Si. Stocks. . ment by the Major Pawkins of the PhonsICI. News concerning the crowd at the mill; fTTTTTTUTTTTTTITTTTTTnfTTTTTTTfTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTt Green-Dono-v- P. W. MADSENS FURNITURE Caish or Credit ' a . ' . |