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Show SI ! Sporting Life. m l 9 'f S ' Tll local fans bad a chance to jubilate might B 1 1 ! lly over the bumping administered by the Saints . H 1 ' to the Golden Gate lads In the opening argument M o the week's series. H T j The Latter-day tossers played just as every- H ' j I one know they were capable of playing as soon as !.j teahi work was cemented a little and the Infield 'I j strengthened. The locals as they stand at pres- m j ent ought to be able to lariat some large sized I ( laurels before the expiration of the season. An- j other infielder to negotiate in Taylor's pasture at h Jj ' the third bag and an additional twirler or two H 'H should make the team one of the doughtiest H (B " bunches in the league. The hitting was par ex- B 1 i , cellence and made Stoval's twirling look like hand H I Hanley was in a good humor again and his H conduct in the garden and with the stick made H j i I him the idol of the locals. The fans likewise H j I wereuch gladdened to see Buck Weaver's burly H I figure on the local diamond again, even if the vet- H j I eran was trying to encompass our downfall. And H i I his old admirers were glad to see him doing the H ! i I ' old errorless stunt in the fielding line and bump H ! . ing the ball was his usual vigor. A pleasant sur- H , prise in the first game was Lundbaum's handsome H i slab work and his ability to hold out effectively H j I! to the finish. Altogether Zion has begun to en- H ill thuse very much over the league artists, and big H i 1'!: j crowds of ardent sports were voicily in evidence Ht III at all the games. i ( j It now looks as if Salt Lake were to be glad- t dened with another prize fight, this time without r I the assistance of the Unimpeachable Promotor, M . ? Mr. M. E. Mulvey. With Mulvey safely in the B , j background the mill gives considerable promise of P j being an entire success. Mr. E. Robinson, man- iager of Clarence English, states that he has arranged ar-ranged a contest between his protege and the old h r- i local favorite, Jack Clifford. Since Clifford's de- B ' feat by Herrera, very little has been heard of him, Bi and the local sports will be very glad to see the hard-punching featherweight in another match. English looks like the reul material, and a properly prop-erly managed contest ought to draw well and give general satisfaction. t &$ 4V The Impression that Jeffries Is Invincible and that Corbett will be easy game for him in their coming battle seems to be undergoing a slight change among people who are watching pugilistic affairs down on the coast. Jeffries is handicapped with overweight and is finding it extremely hard to work around to his old form. It is also reported re-ported that he has been walking the malted way rather extensively of late. Corbett, on the contrary, con-trary, is in far better form than he ever has been before, and his chances. for winning from the big boiler maker are considered extremely good by some of the coast plungers. & & In its issue of August 1st, the Illustrated Police News of New York, reproduces in full under a big slug head, the article which appeared in Goodwin's Good-win's Weekly, exposing the Herrera-Downey fake fight. We think the story would prove very interesting in-teresting to Mr. Mulvey. It Is on file in this office, of-fice, and though Mr. Mulvey has for some unexpli-cable unexpli-cable reason stopped his subscription to this paper, pa-per, we shall be very glad to have him call and look over the Illustrated News and anything else that happens to be lying around loose. fyJV P& 5 The Salt Lake sports have been presented with some very choice bunches in the racing line, but nothing has ever been chiseled off in such huge clusters as the racing fiasco Mr. Montgomery is conducting out at Agricultural park. The graft is so rare and fierce that it would give an Apache the locomotor ataxia. It makes a" shell game look like a church bazaar pastime. If a man makes a small bet on a horse, nd the equine happens to be the one picked to win, the steed is promptly scratched from the pools. So if anyone happens to get the Montgomery dope and picks the winner he has about as much show of getting the money as a king of Servia does of becoming a centenarian. centenar-ian. A lone bet of $20 last Wednesday caused the booky to withdraw the horse from the pools. At Wednesday's meet, when a mudder was left at H the post, the other starters were allowed to run H half a mile and were then called back to the bar- rier. The Salt Lake sports may be easy and oc- H casionally stand for some iron-clad grafting, but H they are not quite prepared to masticate anything quite as dyspepsia breeding as the brew Mr. Mont- 9 gomery is serving. If there is not a sudden change in this line of imported bamboozling, there will not be as many people at Agricultural Park hereafter as there are starters in the races. t5 5 w Recently John L. Sullivan pawned his jewelled belt, which he always referred to as the "dog collar," col-lar," forJ $1,800. When asked why he did not hold on to' it, John is reported as saying: "Diamonds, "Dia-monds, why, I used to feed them to the birds. But say, that belt is all right if anybody wants it. With a white flannel suit and a pair of tan shoes it would look out of sight on a hot day at Coney Island. Isl-and. If he'd just train down a few notches my friend John W. Gates could wear it and make J. P. Morgan look like Chinese money with square holes in it. I ain't tryin' to act as press agent for the man that's got it now, but I don't want to see him lose money on it. Maybe he can get Cor-bett's Cor-bett's friends to buy it for him when he licks Jeffries. Jef-fries. They'll have plenty of time .to raise the money and it would match that pompadour better than anything I know of." C f" w The closing games between the Saints and Angels were certainly heart-rending to the local fans. While it is true that it is difficult for any team to work together thoroughly in Salt Lake, on account of the loud chorus of knocking that jars the bleachers and grand stand at every game, it must be confessed that the locals made a lamentable la-mentable and disheartening showing. They played a pale, lifeless insipid game that made some of the most incurable fans turn their faces to the setting sun. An occasional weak and nerveless nerve-less exhibition is to be expected, but on that occasion oc-casion some of the best players on the local team absolutely laid doAvn and made no effort to win the game. The result was that the closing games had none of the elements of a contest and were positively nauseous, particularly to the baseball enthusiasts, of whom no other city has more than this same stake of Zion. For instance, Hanley and even Donahue, probably prob-ably the two strongest players in the local aggregation, aggre-gation, played like a pair of ice men and as if they were less interested in the result of the con test than anyone on the grounds. That kind of business wont do. The fans will not stand for it. The best player in the league ought to be released re-leased if he proves to be a quitter, as he not only disgusts the public but cripples the work of the rest of the team. It is true that the local pitching staff, with one or two exceptions, is sadly weak, and that probably extracts the ginger to some extent -from the other players. But that condition is temporary tem-porary and there is absolutely no earthly excuse for such dumb displays as were witnessed last week. All of which leads to the suggestion that some of the locals take a large and important brace and cut out the hyppodrome work. When they do they will find that there is no pleasanter camping ground for the baseballist than the city of the saints. loV IV tV Judge Diehl's decision that it was lawful in "Utah to sell pools at horse races was very good news to local sports. If his decision had been adverse ad-verse horse races in Salt Lake would soon have become a pleasant memory. Horse racing without with-out pools would be about as thrilling as a rural dance without a fiddler. |