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Show ! Sporting Life. . Jim Flynn and Tom Reilly were the principals in a pugilistic fiasco on Thursday night. It was another of the conspicuous farces vhlch have j been launched here with a fair amount of regu- , , j larlly, and the few people who attended the bur- H; J'; lesque are congratulating their neighbors who K it ' did not happen to be present H m It would be hazardous to state that the bout HB m was a prearranged affair in which the principals HH mW agreed not to hit each other and to go the limit H f h I of twenty rounds, but that is the opinion of H III f everyone present who was fairly familiar with B L what a prize fight ought to be. One thing is cor- 'ri tain If Flynn did his best on Thursday night, ihe may as well move to other pastures, as his l exhibition lost for him all the friends he ever .iad hero and convinced them that he Is a fcypi- oal fourth rater. He was a more plaything in I tjhe hands of Reilly, who, with his superior science j and generalship, could have placed him in dream- 1 land, from all indications, early In the game, had he so desired. j No such miserable exhibitloa has been inflict- ed on the public since the bout between Queenjan H nd Clifford, each of whom had a wholesome fear H of his oppQpont. In a total of twenty rounds there H ' i were only about seven vigorous exchanges. DUr- B s ( t lng the remAAndej of the time they were either iH 3 talUnjg or galloping around the ring, and it seems H luj emakablo that Referee Bean did not urge them HK m j tp gvo at least a semblance of a real battle. K ijl Neither of the men were distressed at any flB tiMml Stage' of the performance. Neither of them hit jHKwJJHi I i hard enough to break a promise. The only thing HH 3fiftf ' he fight demonstrated was that Reilly is vastly WS' ' ' superior to Flynn as a fighting machine and that Wm w j the public is very gullible, Indeed. Flynn was WEm ' overweight anjd not fast enough to catoh a street WBm car Also one of Mr. Reilly's hands was in bad H condition The manager of the farce should pre- B gent Mr. Flynn with a ticket to Denver, for be it H said that when the dear public of Salt Lake desire B M to be entertained with farces, they prefer a B i vaudeville show. So its adios for awhile to our lofty Mr Wiggs. The cloud scraper may not have been playing for a release, but his weird performance of recent memory certainly laid him open to adult suspicion suspi-cion of desiring to frolic in other baseball pastures. pas-tures. Maybe he will, but it will be very late in the present season, if the management of the Saints hold to their present determination to discipline dis-cipline the recalcitrant giant. We cannot see any great objection to letting someone else sample him. We are not among those who have ever thought Mr. Wiggs a great pitcher, because slab work, like any other form of athletics, requires nerve and pluck, two items in which the lofty one is woefully and conspicuously lacking. tv 5 v The recent bolstering of the Butte team shows that Manager Wilmot has no intention of leading an aggregation of tail-enders. This calls attention atten-tion to the fact that our own Elders could survive sur-vive comfortably a little propping up, for instance In the direction of short stop. Too, it might be profitable to make an arrangement Whereby faithful faith-ful old Weed could operate where he rightfully belongs, in the outer garden. . j& & One adnilrablo feature about Jack Monroe is his freedom from the common and almost universal univer-sal pompqsity and assertive conceit of a fairly successful pugilist. He never megaphones his fighting abilities. He mejrely says he is in the business to win the championship if possible. If Jeff toes the scratch out of fix Tune 17, he said in a recent interview, I'll stand a fine chance for the championship; if he is as good as ever, well I'll have, pardon me, quite a hell of a time of it, and then may win at that. But don't take any stock In the stories that I say I can whop him. I don't know yet whether I can or not, but I do know that I will try. , jZ t The pugilistic double header at Butte between Mellody and O'Keefe and Yanger and Herrera should be worth going many furlongs to see. He-rerra He-rerra announces that if he vanquishes Yanger, which looks like a possibility, he will swoop down on McGovern and Brltt and all the other top-notchers top-notchers who are looking for trouble Battling Nelson, who is still on the coast, ox-presses ox-presses the opinion, after many visits to Monroe's Mon-roe's camp, that if Jeffries tries to dispose of the minor in a hurry, he will stand a very good show of being jput away for the count. & & d& The Ute ball hurjers were met with much en thusiasm upon their return home, and justified the ardor of the fans by playing the initial game in flawless fashion. Old man Gim may not have an aggregation of champions, but they are about as spectacular an aggregation as was ever piloted to Utah when tyiey are in the right humqr, and they go with us. Meredith is a very suitable young man, indeed, in-deed, both when delivering mysteries from the 8abf and wqavlng tyie loom at the bat, and he will be of vast assistance in the chase for the pennant. There have been those who have criticised the old Ogden trio, Gimlin, Olark and Hausen, whom they have referred to as being in too rapid company. com-pany. Such people would do well to scan their averages, particularly In the batting line. Each one has had from t'wo to three hits to his credit in all the recent games. tv tv The unquestioned fielding star of the Utes, if not of the league, Is Delmas, whose ambulations Abound the second bag are bo.th weird and wonderful. won-derful. Muller's fielding Is also of the phenom-j$al phenom-j$al kind, and we would scarcely trade one Elder Weed for any one man Jn the Northwest or Canada. |