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Show U0- - Man iMaiaii - -- - TRUTH. - SALTAIR. BEACH ( SALT LAKE A LOS ANGELES RAILWAY CO. Mose Christensen, a former Salt Laker, out of $100, a bet made on a foot race. Some information relative to J. E. Shaver, McLaughlins former manager, can also be used. 7 big fellows class at all. Jeffries is a great big animal, and to put him out Corbett should have stuffed a horseshoe in his right mitt, and then the chances are he would have failed. Cor- No, I have not been here quite that long, champion- hut long enough that Jit jit ship contests. St is singular that when thousands of people Well, Manager Schefski took Jim gets knocked out it is always a have been convinced I sell honest, reTruths suggestion of last week, and result of a stomach punch, alias solar that liable goods at honest prices, and that is now negotiating for some new rid- plexus. my guarantee is as Jit JH ers for the Salt Palace track. During good as the best. BOATING DANCING BATHING I I in getting George Gardner is getting some Johnnie Fisher, the Chicago rider, cheap advertising by demanding a here, and he will have some more fight with Fitzsimmons. George is coming soon. since he it feeling perky put over Root Jit Jit The Saints are doing very well the last time. But if he ever gets up against old Bob, and the old against .the Seattle team this week, man fights three rounds as fastgentleas he and if they break even on the double-- did when he met Jeffries, George header today and tomorrow, our Gardner wont come back to earth unstanding will be greatly improved. til the day after tomorrow. One punch Wiggs will ikely pitch two of the such as was that which ripped open games, and he can be depended upon Jeffries face and nearly destroyed his to, win one of them, and Quick should eye, would carry little Georgie up among the angels. George had better land one of the others. play for that return match Jack. Root Jit J and it is no cinch that he can In future the management of the wants,Jack whip again either. Truth will alShamrock Athletic club will insist ways think that had Root been upon all boxers signing an ironclad handled better at the saucer track contract before they will be permitted here that Gardner would have been defeated. He was all in one to box at any meeting of the club. stage of the game, and had atRoots These contracts are very stringent, manager coached him a bit at the and are so worded as to prevent any right time, Gardner would have gone down and out imposition upon either the club or the - o spectators. The clause in the articles Sporting News of Interest reads: 'It is agreed that the decision Willie Park, Sr., four times British of the referee shall be final, and in died at Musselburgh, case of a decision of no contest, or the golf champion, England, last week. His son, Willie, Contest being unsatisfactory, or de- Jr., has been twice champion. clared a fake, the parties of the secJim Corbett got so excited the other ond part (meaning the principals) day in telling what he would do to Jefwaive all claims against the. party of fries that several towns were partially the first part (the club), and the for- blown to pieces and a number of. lives feit money posted by the parties of lost. This stipulation the second part. Danny Maher, the American jockey, makes it possible for the clubs ref- who was badly hurt in an automobile eree to declare any contest "no con- collision while returning from the test if he sees anything that looks crooked. In that event the money of Lingfleld races on July 10, left the the holders of tickets would be re- Caterham cottage hospital practically funded and the forfeits put up by the as well as ever. principals would go to defray expenses Barney Oldfield broke the worlds of the management Each principal automobile record for a mile at the has to deposit $250 earnest money, Empire City track, onkers, N. Y., subject to the check of the manager, July 25, covering the distance in 0:55 before signing articles. Now that is record was his The best the way to do business. It places the own of 0:56 previous responsibility on the referee and inIn the 2:0.8 pace at Glens Falls, N. sures the selection of good men for Y., Birdina, owned by R. L. Davis of the place. JH Jit Mineola, L. I., made a new record of marking being 2:10, Manager Kelly is negotiating for a 2:08,., herseason. In the same race contest between Buddy King and Rufe made last Albert made 2:08. Turner, to be pulled off some time Jack OBrien of Philadelphia, in about the 15th of September, and one company with his two sisters, sailed between Jerry McCarthy and Tommy for England last week. OBrien is goWallace, to' come off some days later. ing abroad for the purpose of meeting The articles, drawn as alluded to Jack Palmer for the middle-weigabove, have been forwarded, and the championship of that country. National Bank of the Republic has According to the attendance figures been selected as .the depository for given out up to date the major leagues forfeits. It will be three or four days have played to. about a like number before either can be heard from. of . . Grand Ball This Evening 400 -b- ath houses -4- 00 Trains Leave: 10:30, 2:20, 4:20, 6:20, 8 p.m. J. I. LANGFORD, in. Manager. McMillan, g. p. GIO. a t. a. V. DERR, Ixcenioi Igut. the exception of enough to pay the rent of the opera house. Jl Jt . Well, old Jamesy Wiggs surely got into the game right while the Miners were here. He won all three of the games he pitched against Buttes star twirlers, and did it easily. But in Thursdays game he went to the bad, and had to be taken out Wiggs can do the best, and at the same time worst work of any pitcher in the league. In one inning he may "fan everybody that comes to the bat, and in the next he is likely to give them all free passes. Jit Jt Mayor Thompson has shut down tight on prize fights. He declares that no more will be pulled off in this city - 2-- THE JEWELER t. 75 Bast Second South St. Mall Orders Given Prompt Attention. Vardon Uses "Bounding Billy- When Harry Vardon set a new mark of 800 in the British open golf championship at Prestwick there was much curiosity among golfers on this side as to whether the famous Jersey man had played with a solid or a rubber eored ball. The point has been set at rest by the receipt of an authentic press account of the big tournament, which states positively that not a solid gutta percha ball was driven by any of the contestants during the last two days of the tournament When it is remembered that last year the British Golf Professionals association passed resolutions agreeing to use only the solid ball in tournaments their quick change of heart is a matter of some surprise. Then the "bounding bllTy, as the American invention was dubbed, was a thing to be left severly ILF PRICE FERGUS WALTER'S MUSIC CO., NIT popn O. - I M- PIECES fi ' i i : I 1 I i. i i i i S 4 i i i i I j i I l t 4 I I i ( I i alone. It did not furnish a true test of golf and would. If used, work all kinds of mischief. With true British conservatism the experts decided the solid ball of their forefathers was pood enough. This decision was hep Bided far and wide, and players on (his side of the water, who had seen the irresistible march of the bounding billy, wondered how long the experts would stick to their resolution. American professionals, who visited i i i - AT 5,000 r f Scotland during the winter, returned with tales of the British experts playpeople, 1,400,000 each, New York with the rubber cored balL Not leading with 364,000, Philadelphia ing so long ago the Vardons, Taylors, American next with 300,000, Boston to and Philadelphia National League Herds and Braids quietly agreed regarding the teams bringing up the rear with about rescind the resolution so it came to pass that new and balls, T5.000 each. all of them were found on the links at Prestwick seeking to capture the biggest plum in the golfing world with the aid of the new ball. J The sporting writer of Truth will give a suitable reward for authentic information concerning the present whereabouts of one G. C. McLaughlin, known as a Joke wrestler. Truth traced this man through Idaho until he reached Boise, and the last time he was heard from he was being held by the sheriff on a charge of beating one SAL SICKLE, 5. ht ILL SHEET MDSIC jt i 4-- 5. his present administration. Some of the fight promoters have taken him at his word, and will not make any more matches for Salt Lake, Jit JH but they intend to go right on with Jim Corbett has tried and failed the game in Ogden. Louie Long, one of Billy Lavignes men, and Eddie again. It was as expected, even if Foy, the well known lightweight, are his press agents did do the best work matched to fight there on September before the battle. Jim is not in the 1, and Clifford and Queenan have signed for a return match for the 15th of that month. As long as the fights are on the square, there will be no opofposition on the part of. the Ogden ficials, and the men who are behind the two fights mentioned propose to deliver the goods. during i bett will now retire from the week he succeeded 6rand Concert Sunday. YEAR 10c PER COPY o -- . Sets New Record. Western and Intercollegiate Golf Champion H. Chandler Egan of Exmoor put up a brilliant game in the second match round of this open tournament, of the Exmoor Country club, and establisned a new, match play record for .the course, negotiating the eighteen holes in 74 strokes, and winning from William I. Howland, Jr., of the Skokie Country Qlub by 7 up and 5 to play. ..... t p . i " i i |