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Show crowds are small. If one cannot go The Bostons Great Backstop. himself, it is his duty to send the ofLou who has been doing fice boy or some other boy. Give the most ofCrigier, the catching for the Boston management encouragement and then American League team since Charley if good playing does not follow everyone will have a right to kick. But Farrell met with an accident, is looked with a grand stand only half filled and upon by some critics as the best It was forwith the bleachers but poorly patron- catcher in the country. tunate for the Bostons that they had ized, it does not look good for a fellow to snort and roar about rotten play- such a man as Criger to fall back ing, simply because he is out six bits upon, as he has contributed in no for the price of admission and a seat small degree to the great success of where he can see the curves the pitch- that fine crowd of ball tossers, at the er puts on the ball. head of whom is that keensighted Jt manager and brilliant player, Jimmy The fact that this city got into the Collins. Criger is a native of Elkleague at the expense of a town which hart, Ind., and is 31 years of age.. puts on a lot of airs because of its He began his baseball career as a (Mich.) commercial importance, is the best ad- member of the Kalamazoo two team 1895. in The following vertisement Salt Lake has had in ten was with he the Fort Waynes, years years. It ought to be a matter of city of the Interstate League, where his pride to keep this team going in first great work behind the bat attracted class shape. No one is going to make the attention of National League mana bundle of money out of the transac- agers. He entered the league in 1898 tion. The players are not paid Naa member of the Cleveland club. tional league salaries by any means; the management does not draw down immense amounts; the men employed around the grounds are not generalThe ly rewarded for their services. citizens should make it a part of their duty to see that this team gets every encouragement. If this city had one man with the sporting blood In him of Charlie Clark, of Butte, matters would be different. He asked at the beginning of the season how much.it would cost to run the team and when told, guaranteed the sum. Salt Lake City has no suCh warm blooded people with the money. All our good fellows are people with moderate means. But by acting together this class of men can keep matters lively and the cold blooded cash holders can sit back and look on while the balance have a good time. o NOTICE. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that the partnership firm of Edward D. Osborne and Jack Ryan, doing business under the firm name and style of Osborne & Ryan, at No. 18 W. Third South street, Salt Lake City, is dissolved. OSBORNE & RYAN. By Jack Ryan. Three-- I League. Walter Kinlock, center fielder on the Davenport team, has been released by Manager Hayes. Outfielder Haidt, released by Joliet, has caught on. with Ft. Wayne in the Central league. President Sexton has assessed each club $50 for the maintenance of . the Joliet Club, pending the transfer to Springfield. Rockford has now four college players in Merritt, of Beloit; Pattison, of Dixon; Stark, of Detroit City, and Ovens, of Ottumwa. Manager Tebeau, of Joliet, has released outfielder Hoffman and second baseman Lyons, and will play second base himself to save expense. Henry OConnell, who played with the Sacred Heart team, of Watertown, Wis., and who has made good in a way, has signed to club. Rockford play with the It is said that King, last year with Davenport, who has been playing short for Bloomington, is slated for release, and that Manager Connors is after Walt Davis, the Davenport amateur, to take his place. Bloomington has dropped Dicky Brown after four years of service. Brown failed to deliver the goods this season, both in fielding and stick work. He has joined the Grand Forks (N. D.) team. Herbert is now a fixture on third base for Bloomington, and is doing weU. semi-profession- 4-- 5 I Later he was transferred to SL Louis, and from the latter city went to Boston, where he has been playing with the .American League team in the Hub since its organization. Our illustration is from a copyrighted picture by the National Copper Plate company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Utica Globe. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS. Six lengths ahead of a flteid eighteen straining, struggling thoroughbreds, The Picket, a plebian colt unknown to fame, untried and without record, won the sixteenth American Derby at Washington Park, Chicago, June 20 and his first victory. Seventy thousand spectators, nineteen colts, a new record for the stakes; the largest crowd, the biggest field, and the best time in the history, of the classic event; first honors won in a canter, and a fierce struggle for minor glories; favorites hopelessly beaten before the final quarter is reached all that, and the floral saddle for The Picket, is the Derby. As the winning colt won this, the first Victory of his racing career, the Washington Park records for the Derby went to smash, and the new mark -- pad-dock- s, Oxford-Cambridg- of THEODOSIUS BOTKIN ATTORNEY AND C0UN9EL0R-AT-LA- W Salt Lake City WINDSOR EUROPEAN HOTEL C1NTRALLY LOCATED. I RATES 90c, 75o and $1.00. Everything New end First-Clas- s. J. Q. SCOTT, Managir. Hel-gese- n o The of 2:33 was set up in place of the 2:33 of Robert Waddell in 19 0L That Savable, the conqueror in the Futurity and the pride of the Drake stables, and Claude, the winner of three Derbies, and Bernays should pound their way around the track with the heels of an untried horse digging the dirt far ahead of them, was in strict accordance with what is expected in the American Derby. When it was over it was easily recalled that this is the way it always happens. ' Jumping into the lead before the quarter was reached, The Picket saw his competitors no more until they were gathered around him at the judges stand. Turning slightly on his n mount from time to time Jockey could see the struggle behind him, but it carried no terrors for the speedy colt of Middleton & Jungbluth. As he passed the stand the first time around he was in the lead. As the flying bunch reached the first mile he was increasing his lead. When they entered the stretch the race was hopeless for the other eighteen, and as he crossed under the wire it was in a canter. The real struggle was six lengths behind him, where Claude, Bernays and Savable fought for position. The race ended with those horses in the order named. The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers has decided to hold its own reliability run this fall. The Philadelphia cricketers won their three days match with the Nottinghamshire (Eng.) team by 185 runs. The sale of J. B. Haggins yearlings was continued at the Fasig-Tiptohead Sheepshead Bay, forty-si- x bringing a total of $40,000. Dr. Lasker, the worlds champion, sailed for Europe on the steamer Bremen. While abroad he may meet TSchigorin in a series of games to test the Rice gambit. The Memphis Trotting Association will hold an eight-da- y meeting, begin20. close July 1. The entries Oct ning The program includes six events, each having a purse of $2,000. The Crescent Athletic club of New e York defeated the lacrosse team by a score of 4 goals to 3. In the first half each side scored three goals, the deciding goal being made in the second half. The showing made by the Englishmen was un- expectedly good. Jimmy Gardner, the crack Eastern lightweight, stopped Tommy Devine of Boston in four rounds before the Sarsfield A. C. of Roxbury, Mass., the other night Jimmy is the youngest brother of George Gardner. Lou Scholes, the Canadian sculler, who was to have started for England to compete in the Henley regatta, has changed his mind at the solicitation of his friends, and will remain for the Canadian and American regattas. W. Wright a jockey, performed a remarkable feat at the St Owen races at Paris, France, this week, riding to victory five horses in six events. Two of the winning horses, Loustic and Nivalet, are the property of Frank Gardner. Benny Yanger has not made a big hit with the San Francisco people who have seen him work. The Californians think he is not clever and are picking) Eddie Hanlon to beat him if Yanger works in the ring as he does in his1 ' training quarters. At the Salt Palace cycle races at Salt Lake City, Utah, N. C. Hopper of 'Chicago and F. J. Hofman of Los Angeles each broke the worlds record for a quarter of a mile, flying start Their time was 0:24. The previous was made by Gussie record,' 0:24 Lawson at Atlanta last year. It is rumored that Sir Thomas Lip-to- n will soon acquire a racing stable, and some evil minded scribe suggests the British nobleman seeks to advertise his business by this means. This can hardly be the case, as it would be far easier for Sir Thomas to join a golf club. He could then tee off. The Kentucky Court of Appeals, la an opinion delivered in a case of the commonwealth against Terry McGovern and others, rules that a court of equity can grant an Injunction against the owners and managers of a building to restrain the holding of a prize fight therein. The decision is a deathblow to pugilistic contests in the state of Kentucky. Little Joe Nelson of Chicago did himself proud in the motor-pace- d races at Charles River park, Boston The great time made last week. Elkes for ten miles was by Harry knocked sky high by the lad from the West Nelsons great time was made e in the first heat for the motor-paceand men, every worlds record from one mile up was cut down. Nelson rode two miles in 2:28, five three in 3:39, four in 4:50 in 6:03, six in 7:15, seven in 8:25 nine in 10:491-5- , and eight in 9:37 4-- 5, - ten-mil- d 3-- 5, 4-- 5, 3-- 5, ten in 12:01. Hygiene of Bare Feet When I go away this summer I expect to. trot around barefoot most of the time, said a man who was It makes a planning his vacation. man ten years younger to go without shoes. Some persons believe the nice sea air and bathing are the things that restore ones constitution. That may help, but running around barefoot Is the principal factor. If people went to the seashore and didnt go barefooted they wouldnt get half the results they would in going around without shoes..! To my mind there is a therapeutic lesson in Whittiers Barefoot Boy. al Pension for German Poet To the poet Falbe the German gov- eminent. his just granted a pension pf $750 a. yjear, a tribute never before paid to poetry in Germany. . -- I ' |