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Show TRUTH. lagoon Closes Labor Day monster with a CLAM BAKE : The biggest thing ever attempted in Utah. :::::::: J. BERGERMAN, Lessee. AT THE RE80RT8. Fred Graham, the honey-voice- d tenor, was the vocal feature at the concert at Saltair last Sunday. Jt 3 If you dont think the butchers and grocers of Salt Lake are real live ones, then you didnt go to Lagoon Wednesday. The day was like an um- brella overhead, but the boys who wield the cleavers had a great cut up just the same. je jt There were big doings at Calders Park, Wednesday, when the twenty- fifth anniversary of the opening of the resort was duly celebrated. Manager Levy gave away all kinds of prizes in honor of the event, and there were exciting automobile races. JH J an enjoyable Sunday? Toss a penny Gardners Star Rising. In the air and make your selection Jimmy Gardner, the clever Lowell from either Calders park, Lagoon or Saltair. (Mass.) lightweight added another THE SUMMER GIRL. winning bracket to his list when he defeated Willie Fitzgerald at Butte in five rounds. Jimmys victory did not Richards Versatility. It was on a Broadway car after a come as a surprise, but the hurry-u- p matinee and two young women with manner in which he put Willie out of programs of the Russian play quite In the running did. Fitz has met the best evidence were still discussing the star. of them during his career as a fighter, His make-u- p isnt It wonderful? and has taken down the short end of Perfectly marvelous, assented the the money quite frequently, but this was the first time he went down to other enthusiastically. And his eyes are so black and defeat so hurriedly. He stood ten rounds before Joe Gans and went piercing, continued the first Piercing, but they are not black, twenty rounds with Jimmy Britt, you know, with rather a superior which demonstrates he can go a few lines in any kind of company. The smile. Oh, yes, my dear, they are I no- quick and decisive manner in which Gardner cleaned his man places him ticed particularly. Well, of course, I know you think in the front ranks of the lightweights they are black, but really, I assure and a formidable opponent for Cham plon Gans. you, they are blue. 'Now, come, dear, cant you remember as Brutus how black they were? Plan Racing In Mexico City. Cant you remember as Beaucaire The Mexican Jockey club has, after how blue they were? Or as Karl Hein- considerable delay, again taken up the rich, or Beau Brummel? I simply consideration of the establishment ol cant see how you make such a mis- a lacing park on the site secured some months ago at Racienda de la Con-destake. between Mexico City proper and Thank you, I do remember them all very well, and, besides, I have Just the Chaputepec park. Plans for a dub seen Ivan this afternoon and feel per house, stands, stables, and other necessary buildings have been submitted. fectly sure that his eyes are black. A painful silence was' settling upon The structures will he of the most them a few moments more might substantial character, all steel and have severed a friendship, but just at stone. It is the intention of the club this point a mutual friend got on the to arouse the dormant interest in rao-inand to encourage the importation car. They flew at her, presented each side of the case, and waited breathless end breeding of thoroughbred horses. According to the present plans the for her decision. Why,. my dears, was the prompt principal meet will be held In the and confident reply, both of you are spring, the chief feature being the right that is just one of the many Mexican Derby, with a value of $20,-00at a distance of one mile and a proofs of Mansfields limitless versahalf. tility. New York Times. . o . a, g straight heats the $10,000 Merchants and Manufacturers stake for 2:24 class trotters. Stanley Dillon was not driven out in any heat. It was a popular victory, both because of the local ownership of the race horse and because Driver Greers St was behind the horse, and horse, ownTomorrow afternoon Christensens er and driver were given an ovation orchestra will render the usual high-grad- e as Dillon finished more than a length concert at beautiful Saltair. ahead in the third and final heat Driver Greers was presented with a There were plenty of bonnie lads floral sulky when he returned to the and lassies at Lagoon last Tuesday. judges stand after the third heat JK o d Where are you going tomorrow for LABOR DAY HIT! PAR.KJ SEPT. Record. The championship meeting of the Western Association of the Amateur series of Athletic Union, in th was held at tne Olympic games, Stadium at St. Louis, July 80, and the Missouri Athletic Club of St Louis was the winner of the chamMakes New Western A new CALDERS 5tl. GREATEST DAY OF THE SEASON. FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO CALDER'S ON LABOR DAY ... at SALTAIR Is better than it has ever been before. . . Finest Dancing in the State. J. E. v v LANGFORD, Lessee Lou Dillon Breaks Track Record. At Detroit, Mich., July 27, 8,000 peo-pi- e saw three favorites finish first and Lou Dillon break the track record by one second. Lou Dillon made the first quarter in 0:30, the half in 1:01 and the in 1:32. Announcement had been made that the mares owner did not expect to see a phenomenal mile made under the unfavorable track and weather conditions. Millard Saunders drove in place of Lou Dillons owner, C. K. G. three-quarte- rs Neil Beats Hughey McGovern. Frankie Neil of San Francisca bantam champion of the world, clearly outfought Hughey McGovern of Brook lyn at the National Athletic club, PhlF adelphia, July 27. The fight through! out was the most vicious ever witi Reception for Lou Scholes. Lou Scholes, winner of the diamond nessed in that city between two littlg sculls, was given a royal reception on men. There was scarcely a second his return to Toronto, Ont., July 2t. during the six rounds that the boys On the arrival of the Corona at 6 were not in action. o o'clock fully 20,000 people had assem New Pacer Is Fast. bled on the Yonge street wharf. The Eudora, 2:07, Is a newcomer to Champion was received by Acting Mayor Ramsden and a procession was the 2:10 pacing list, she having made formed, headed by the Highlanders her record in a second heat. Eudora band, and Including the city council has also the distinction of being the unrt all the aquatic clubs of the city. first 2:10 mare of the year. She Is an On wagons decorated with flags were inbred. Wilkes, as she was sired by the shells in which Scholes rowed Wilton, 2:19, out of Swallow by when he. won the trophy and in prac- Gambetta Wilkes, 2:19. She is in W. L. Snows stable and looks like a ticing for the match. 2:05 pacing prospect at least American Motor Boat Is Defeated. International motor boat race in the Lou Dillon Improved. The condition of Lou Dillon, thf Solent, London, England, represented S. F. by Edges Napier Minor, which worlds champion trotter, taken sud defeated the French Richard Braiser denly ill, is Improved and the mare U The American boat entered now believed to be out of danger boat. was defeated by the Napier Minor in Her temperature hae been reduce the preliminary stages of the contest. from 104 to 102 and is decreasing The American went away with a rush gradually. Dillon suffered from over the 7.7 knot course, but the Brit- fever'and was under the care of veterl isher soon forged ahead and put the narians. American out of the contest in 24 o minutes and 10 seconds. The Amer. Lipton Still Has Hope. icans time was 26 minutes and 3 secThomas J. Lipton, in a letter to A ond. S. Draper, New York state com " H missioner of education, says he has Jeffries Leg Strong. not given up hopes of lifting the lm In a letter to a friend in New York, temational cup. Dr. Draper, with Jim Jeffries, writing from Oakland, other prominent Americans, wrote Sir My leg is as strong again as Thomas a month or so Bays: ago, It ever was, and there will be no need the hope that he would try expressing again. of any further postponement of the o fight with Munroe. As far as that Corbett and OBrien Matched. goes, though, when the bell calls Mun26 Jim Corbett and Philadelphia Jack I roe and myself together on Aug. to OBrien have agreed to fight six on have I go wHl be in the ring if one leg. I shall remain in Oakland rounds In September in Philadelphia. for a few days and then shall go to It is generally understood that the Harbin Springs to resume training for fight will be a fake. Chicago Inter Ocean. the fight 0, The green lawns and bright flowers Stanley Dillons Easy Victory. Before 12,000 people at the Grasse at Lagoon are just as pretty now as Fointe track July 26 Stanley Dillon, they were in June. owned by J. P. .Brown of Detroit, and Jt J Calders park will be the official re- driven by Ed Greers, won in three sort for the Federated Labor unions on Labor day. Manager Levy intends to make it the biggest event of the season. There will be a little of everything doing. Follow the crowds to Calders on Labor day! ' BATHING Western Associa- pionship. tion record was established in the d run, the former record of 0:22 5 being lowered to 0:21 5 by KanEL R. Moulton, representing the sas City Athletic Club. In the other events there were. good performances, hh but no records were broken. 220-yar- 4-- 1-- Pitcher Joe Corbett Released. Joseph A. Corbett of the St Louil National league pitching staff was re leased by F. De Haas Robinson, pres! dent of the league team. Corbetti release .was made at his own request because inflammatory rheumatism had developed and it had becomj sell necessary for him to devote him nnHraiv to medical treatment I n-flre- |