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Show H Sporting Life. m j Heaven spare us from such sporting reporters H j as those who wiote last Saturday's Denvei'-Utah H j game for the Sunday blankets. One, on the Her- H ! aid, remarked, "The best game oyer played here," H I '' , I and the other asked if "the knockers would keep B j still" after such a glorious event as that lovely H i J contest of Saturday. H The statement about "the best game" Is utter- H II ly untrue, and positively silly. To the other bray 1 ' I there is nothing to be said, except that the so- Bi called knockers are friends of the poor lads who Hjj j play, and their only criticism has been of their Hi instructor. And the only thing any football man Bj can say about that game is the fact that the men H; j do not know the game of football. The play on Hjj ' both sides was sluggish, but that of the "University H'l of Utah was not football in any sense of the word. H Just for a minute, call to mind Callahan's Hjjj High School team. Did they dare to stop every Hi' minute for the water call; did any man after get- K j ting the ball think that the sole object of the Hs'i game was to run smash into the mass of players H !: j, when a beautiful run was in sight; did they line Bi! up like a bevy of coal wagons backing toward a B!i i coal hole? Not much, they played football every B ,' minute, because they'd been taught something. B University of Utah men can play ball, as well, B maybe better, but they have to be taught. That's B o all. Is there a man on the University team as B ) I slight j!is Smith of the old High School eleven? B i, , ' 3 And is there a man up on the hill who can go Bj j through a Ijne as he can? Yes, there are lots of B'S !j them who can after they are tougkt. But now B I ., 6 nay, nay. Bllll There is lots of authority for these statements. Bnfl Ask Channing, ask Harry Roberts, ask any B j ! ff coach or player without prejudice, "who knows the Bf ; C game. All will tell you the same thing, and all BJ ! ; whp live here would glory in a University victory. Bl , The puntsand drops of. the Denver boys were B ' fine and the work of Pete Lawrence on our team Bj I is great stuff, but there's something lacking, and BL j the'lack is a coach who knows football. B M ( V4 t Bf j Eddie Santry is very anxious to arrange an- B' "i, other go with Aurelia Herrera, whose great swat put Santry to the mat in the thirteenth round of their late contest. It is not likely that Santry will bo given another chance with the Mexican, at least not for some time tocome. Biddy Bishop has a well devoloped commercial instinct and he is extremely anxious to have his protege mix mat-tors mat-tors with Eddie Hanlon or someone of that ilk. He has placed a forfeit for such a match with Naughton of the Examiner and it is thought probable prob-able that the match will come' off some time in January. Hanlon is too busy preparing for his coming match with Young Corbett in December to pay much attention to Herrera at present. & & & It is difficult to tell what championship will bo at stake In the coming go between Hanlon and Young Corbett. As they are to weigh 129 pounds at C o'clock on the evening of the fight, they can scarcely be classed as featherweights. It has been suggested that light lightweight would be an appropriate term for fighters in that class. 3 & & Fitzsimmons is in active training at Alameda for his coming argument with George Gardner. It is stated that he is close to weight, and appears to be in extremely good fettle for a brush with almost al-most anything from a circular saw to a catamount. FItz merely smiles at the comment about his being too ancient to put up one of his old-time fights, and says he is prepared to handle the old sleep-maker just as hard and fast as he ever was. Among local sports, however, Gardner seems to be a slight ,favorite. His admirers base their predictions pre-dictions of a victory for Gardner on his youth and great agility and his practically limitless capacity capa-city for masticating punishment. Speculation will be eliminated on November 29th. icflt t(5 w Some gingery football should be witnessed this afternoon down at Walker's field between the clever rivals of the Ogden and local High School teams. Both teams can be expected to put up a hard and plucky fight for the High School championship. cham-pionship. c5 t&V fcy Jeffries is generally lauded by sporting writers for his refusal to meet .foe Grim, the athletic wonder won-der of Philadelphia, who takes punishment like pennies thrown in the deep sea and has never been knocked out, ev(en by Fitz. Grim doesn't know anything about the fighting game, and Jeff does not appear to favor converting a prizefight into a public execution. |