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Show Iij Sporting Life. II M!f You must wake and call me early, call me early, If Bj Kelly dear, I gw; For tomorrow will be the gloomiest day of all the I IK sad new year; Of all the sad new year, Jack, the morosest, murki- I IK est day! ! H .For I'ye got to hit the ties, Kelly, for I've got to , M1 hike away. I' Iff Ho give me a bottle of booze, Kelly, of corked-up I, n lava flame; ! lj tfor the way Is long and drear, Jack, and I'd relish I If a jug of the same; II Give my love to Burbldge, Jack, and while I would , ) 't rather stay, H i t'm i I'll clinch the ties while I may, Kelly, and make a B III! clean breakaway. H l & & K jh TRICKED AGAIN. BHt I 'i Hh I! '' Pugilism in Salt Lake has received the knock- B I 1 1 out punch this time for sure. K If' No one appears to deserve the entire credit H J I !1 for the downfall of local flstics, but certainly the H 1 1 ' thing that put In the finishing wedge was the pale m Ip green fakirism and undistllled cussedness of one Hi f , "Chicago" Jack Daly. This piece of pugilistic fungi H U marched in on us just as we were beginning to H- if I hope, with Mulvey away In the cosy background, H i . p ' that we would be presented with some semblance H L , . i of honest sport, and by deliberately fouling Jer- H ',' ry McCarthy at the end of the second and be- H : ill j. ginning of the third rounds gave everyone in !'l ,'j the large crowd that filled the Grand an adult ' I I desire to cripple him with a flaying iron. How .ill; this bruiser had the boldness to serve up any-n'' any-n'' thing like that to. a Salt Lake crowd after their P ' recent banquet at the Mulvey burlesque, is a fin' marvel. If local sports were not a very peace- . ki - loving fraternity, it would not have been sur- H ft L j prising if they had tied a block of granite on the H t tt ; m Chicago emigrant and hurled, him into the big f if dip to the "Westward. M If' But there are insidious whispers that there m l f If ; were bigger men behind the deal and that Daly H Fiji was induced to foul McCarthy in order to put a H . I L fi quietus on Manager S. J. Kelly and the Sham- H pF rock club and thereby boost the stock of rival J F ; promotors. This may or may not be a charge K S '! that can be proven, but it Is stated by the man- H h ' ! agement of the, Shamrook club that a roll was H kl& handed to Daly just before the fight and he was B 11- fully instructed what to do when he entered the H yl ring. If this were done, it would not require a B If telescope to discover who the probable negotiator j 'j of the deal was.. What wo do know is that Daly B L" t demonstrated in the first round that he could ! ! - have put up an extremely brisk argument withJef-ry, withJef-ry, although with slender chances of winning in the end, and that he failed to do so and shell-gamed shell-gamed us like a tin-horn gambler. ! , Manager Kelly does not appear to be in the .. -w, least to blame for the disastrous sequence to the mill, and it is a pity that his first effort to present pre-sent lis with some clean fistic sport was frustrated by this blatant humbug. McCarty went after the Daly person with some of his swashing punches in the second round, and it was evident that the plucky Irishman would have battered down the Daly stock In the course of eight or ten rounds. So If Daly was not handled by outside mazouma, it is probable that he fouled McCarthy in order to lose the match in that way rather than by a knockout. At all events, it is farewell to prize fighting for some time to come, at least. The mayor and the chief of police have decided that we have been bamboozled by these pugilistic tricksters long enough and the next one who ambles within the gates of Zion within the next few weeks will probably be met with a rope and a platoon of police. W iv ttf" CLIFFORD GO. UFF A circumstance that will lie very much regretted re-gretted as the result of the door being closed on prige fights is that it prevents us from seeing Jack "Clifford contest here with Clarence English or any fast man that might have been negotiated with. Clifford has improved greatly, it is stated, since his late argument with Ferrera, and he is now casting about for a chance to brush matters mat-ters with Britt. That looks like a rather bold move on the part of Clifford. ' Still Clifford has the kind of nerve and the variety of wallup that make a successful ring gladiator, and his local friends are anxious to see him try conclusions with -some of the important punchers. fc? && Tommy Markham of Mammoth showed up well in his bout with Roy Condie in the ten-, round preliminary, and with some proper training train-ing he promises to develop some good fighting material. The blow with which he sent Condie to the mat had a powerful amount of ginger behind it. Still it may be said of Condie that he was in (poor condition and is getting rather old for fast work in the ring. & j Interest in the pugilistic world is now centered cen-tered in the coming battle between Jeffries and Corbett, billed for the 14th. The Frisco papers indicate that both men are in great fighting form, and among the locals there are many who believe be-lieve that Corbett has a first class chance to drag back his lost laurels as champion. &f t t3 HONEST JIM. Is is possible that Manager Kelly deliberately overlooked Jim Donaldson in looking around for n honest, competent and thoroughly reliable referee? Surely not. Jim was here, right in our midst, as the rural journalists say, smiling, agreeable, omnipresent, ready at any moment to stop Into the ring and conduct a fight thoroughly on "do square," just as he did in the Herrera-Downey mill. That kind of talent should not be overlooked, j even by the police. I And, by the way, what a calamity it would be if Jim and his beautiful flow of English were invited to leave town with the outgoing pugilists. pugil-ists. r& t t Our talented baseball team is still being daily amputated up in the North country. We hope the team has not been disfigured by these repeated wallopings, as we desire very much to be able to recognize them upon their return. If they do not get lost in the meantime, we shall have the joy of seeing them again on next Tuesday. We will try to treat them better than the Ill-mannered Ill-mannered ball tossers of the Northwest. v & & It isn't surprising that grafter Kilpatricc showed his hand before leaving town. Get the money any old way is his slogan, and his bawlers drew in the crowds up to the time of the performance per-formance Thursday night, announcing that Redman Red-man would ride. ..Then after Kilpatrick welched, the remarks made by this big stiff, Diavalo, were of the lowest and vilest nature, insulting many ladies and their escorts who had been drawn to the tent by false representations. Too bad, that when arranging the pug exodus from the city Burbidge did not include grafter Kilpatrick and the great Diavalo. |