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Show H I J A WORD TO MR. MULVEY. Bfff I The most palpable and ghastly fake that was BH ff ever perpetrated on the local public was that of Bir Iti Thursday night, when through your specious ad- Bl jj vertising and either your i&uoinnce or cupidity H I I three thousand people were induced to attend a HH If supposed pugilistic contest between Aurelio Her- Bff fal rera ani a fShter alleged to be Jack Downey. Htf! i When it was persistently rumored that this, faking H& l pug was not Jack Downey, the Brooklyn pugilist, p you denied the charge and four-card flushed B f ; '' mightily to the effect that you had the real itom. Bx II You should have known from the beginning that Hp J the whole affair was a gigantic swindle, and if Bii i you did not know this you ought to go back to H the tall trees and stay there and never again Bf! I attempt to spring bogus pugs on people who Hl I paid a fat price to see a prizefight. B f It was certainly very handsome in you, and Bf I was a magnificent exhibition of a sportsmanlike HP ( spirit, to gather over $2,000 worth of patrons into mi J Walker's enclosure, and then have the referee Hk ,- I announce that the man you have extensively an- K i I nounced as Jack Downey was not the real Jack Rf . Downey, but some misled piece of vegetation who i I ! had fought some unheard of booze destroyer back K f in Iowa. H Lb1 Yv have certainly achieved one thing suc- H I cessfully. You have given fistic contests the B 1 worst jar they ever received in this section", and K ' m if you ever try to spring another prize fight in Hf j 1 the future every one will rxpeot to be bamboozled, ' ! I and you will be tabooed by every one who be- Hjj ; ij Iieves in decent and honest sport. The curtain H: , A j ought to be let down tenderly in front of you K l I as a prize fight promoter. The fact that Herrera V h I was honest in the matter and polished off the B R counterfeit in the first round is no excuse for Bl 1 t you. The public belief is that you knew you V m were launching a fake, because no one wishes to i, H class you as a fleeced lamb or a gullible sucker. i 1 And, forgetting you for a moment, a word of i fi commendation ought to be expressed for the K 1 1 commenripTile enterprise of the dailies in pub- K I lishing the record of this pseudo Jack Downey, m 1 without taking the trouble to gather information B ' 1 for the public in regard to the charge that he m m was a flat-wheeled fakir and grafter. 1 "Jl Salt Lake's entry into the Pacific National B A league caused much elation among the local fans, B 1 as it means that for the rest of the season we B in will have as good a variety of baseball here B ' as is seen anywhere save in the far east. With B I'M the Portland team, which Vice-President Griffin B I S ' says is a capable aggregation, and star tossers I i m among the locals to pick from, Salt Lake ougnt to keep the other teams of the league busy for tho rest of the season fighting ior first place. Some of tho fastest of the locals, Dad Clark, Hausen, Gimlin, Byrnes, Tozer and Egan, for instance, in-stance, would be good recruits in any kind of baseball company. The fans are looking forward for-ward with eagerness to the first league game next Tuesday. lv tV 3 That was a very fierce mill at San Francisco between Hanlon and Yanger, and the referee's decision that the plucky featherweights had fought a draw met with the entire approval of the sports. When Herrera defeats one of these kind of whirlwinds, he will be very much in the race for the featherweight championship. And now Britt and O'Keefe are again to mix matters, and the second fight of these lightweight wonders won-ders ought to be a thrilling battle. Their former contest for the white lightweight championship was so even that there will probably be no odds in the betting. |
