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Show it Sporting Life. I ;: . It now looks as if for the rest of the season I the downtrodden fans will have served to them ' a very clever line of baseball. The management p of the two inter-city teams have now taken the move that everyone hoped for by srgning some of r: the husky old tossers who were wont to send us into whirlwinds of delight in the olden days. Dad 3i Clark will be a handsome reinforcement to the Salt Lake team and his swift line of work ought Hto help the tone of the whole aggregation. t He is probably the speediest player who ever operated operat-ed with the local players. Ogden at the same time is building up its ; v baseball fences, and with Gimlin and Bluth and ?l V possibly hasty old Casey in their line up, they I ought to be able to balance things very well with the Salt Lake team. If Salt Lake could now grasp McNichols for short stop, and it is more than probable that this could be done, the team would have a very creditable infield. It is a strange thing that all of the amateurs who have been sampled this year have fallen a IJttle short of making good. Neither Thomas nor the Huessers nor young Ames have reached anything any-thing like a high water mark in the baseball line. In wielding the stick against an old professional they are singularly weak, which is unfortunate, as everyone likes to see a local player distinguish himself. Still they are liable yet to bloom into first class players, as it works wonders with a raw player to be associated with fast company. Apparently Salt Lake picked up a live one m when the management signed Tozer, who won his S first game from the. Junctionites with compara- wraT tive ease," and will piobably extract "several" more fflff from the husky ones from the North. KWF w O w Wm Aurello Herrera attracted considerable atten- S I tion here during the week, as a result of the w I laurels Ke plucked recently at Butte. Everyone E I is anxious to see a match arranged in Salt Lake W I between the Mexican whirlwind and some other KM , fast man. It seems probable, though, that his next W I go will be either with DeCoursey or Attell, and W If if so it is likely that the mill will occur either in mm San Francisco or Butte, as the inducements from H those two cities woud be far better than Salt Wm. Lake could make. If the Mexican disposes of afclv either of these men, he will be a formidable can- Hi didate for a contest for the championbhip with H Young Corbett. They are both fighters of great S 1 ability and there are few swifter men in the busl- Bf bmi than young Attell. If the flg'ht took place in jffif ' Frisco, there would be plenty of backing for At- Wf tell by the coast sports. Butte wants a go be- w4! tween Herrera and McGovern. The Mexican ML I " would probably defeat the 'Brooklynite, as the lat- Bk I ter's style of hammer and tong fighting would ex- w actly suit the hard hitting Herrera, Interest frpm now on in the pugilistic world will center in the coming go between Corbett and Jeffries at San Francisco. The general opinion seems to be that Jeffries will win in a canter, but while the odds will be against him; Corbett will have plenty of supporters. Fltzslmmons' statement state-ment that no one in the business can put Jeffries out is probab'ly a good deal exaggerated and is said as a partia consolation for Fitz' two defeats. de-feats. Corbett has developed wonderfully in strength, and claims he has a blow that will put the champion to the mat if he lands it. Jeffries' lpwer ribs are short, and Corbett says if he can land in that vicinity, and he probably can, the light will be won. No prize fighter is invincible and it should not be surprising if the champion receives the quieting punch from the cleverest boxer in the world. |