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Show HMlli Sporting Life. Kris 1 1 lit 31 Tne uaseD&N season this year should furnish Brltli I'tfl VI something much superior to last year's perform- BMM' ilihffllfl ances on the local garden. The main trouble last HHH lul' Hfl year was na Plavers would jump their contract I Pifliirljfi Ills an( flee to otlier Pastures whenever they thought Mr 'j ! iflfl a change of air would help them, and the result B lull's ! US was ia" flrs" class team work was impossible fl 111 1' ' HI fl wu a constant influx of new players and the un- B t'r ll'l! fllH announced departure of old artists. That was Ht ni' If m made possible by the outlaw league. This season, By! if! fj'fl fl under the new regime, these hasty exits and en- fllUj Hi If 9 trances will not be tolerated, and if any of the BD -Hi if fl players under contract with the local management H9 tills fl does not tles'r0 to play here, he will have to BBfl itlt'Jn fl either decorate the bench or pilot out the rest of BhU -ll'l 4 fl tne soason w't a Pick. This should mean that Ku' 11 fl ne bes worlc Possible should bo brought out of B. !$ if fl tlie PlaVGrs' as the team will not be constantly Bl' Ipnll'B threatened with demoralization by untimely leave- B , !j fl taking. H!1 ; if'nS 9H s iB ft iS H Tll season wtn the locals will really begin IH'- I -1 S on APr11 3rd, if present plans do not go awry. A W t ijli H practice game is being arranged for that date Ji iHll H' ' between the available players already signed, and jBi'ii HHI A tlie strongest amateur team that can be secured, JB 1, SMsI I probably the hasty young baseball manipulators of B ' '; jit fit If IS the Cleveland Commission company team. The B ' jJ'H personnel of the teams will be about as follows, B j ' H unless new players arrive in the meantime who H 'll'll can be used. Salt Lake will have Hvuisen, Wiggs, B i T h jlffl Jensen, Sorensen, Davis, O'Brien, Cook, Clow and IB ''I'll II Bradley. The Cleveland team will be the same as ifl WM II las' year as follows: James, c; R. Castleton, p.; H , j! t& Tregea, 1st; W. Smith, 2nd; C. Castleton, ss.; Bl'; I il'll BB Davis, 3rd; F. Smith, l.f.; Stewart, m.; Fapworth, B' 111 3B r' Tnese amateurs are all fast men and should Bl W i BB s've the l)rofs a DUsy afternoon. iB ;rl ffll Max Muller is considered one of the best ac- iB 'ttftHB quisitions of Manager Gimlin. He is one of those iB 4j$M versatile players who studies a batter and fields B PiB accordingly, and always plays with his head as iB in IB wel1 as wltl1 a paIr of ae mItts. The rival athletic clubs are working right strenuously to secure all the fast scrappers who are not otherwise engaged. S. J. Kelly bleaks In first with a match on the 5th between Nelson of Chicago and "Spider" Welch, a lightweight with a reputation of being one of the best on the coast. Nelson is not so well known here, but tho dope credits him with an unbroken string of victories in the East. tV t ( Manager Eddie Robinson of the Salt Lake Athletic Ath-letic club is so sure of having an immense crowd at the fight between Clifford and Queenan that he has secured the Salt Lake theater for April 18th for the lightweight battle. Both men have learned a great deal since they fought two draws, one at Vancouver and one at Ogden. Queenan has a draw with Sieger and a victory over Fred Muller since he met Clifford, and as Clifford's improvement im-provement since the Ogden go has been amply demonstrated, the battle between the two old rivals ri-vals Bhould be quite a furious affair. |