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Show Kv j pi I if Sporting Life. m'i ml H ,Mt Butte finally got its lariat around the pennant HH I pf in Tuesday's game, when Wiggs and Roach fought K I 1 I jt a battle with practically an errorless game be- H ' f 'J hind them. The crowd believed that the umpire !B , ., helped the Amalgamated to the mustard, but that I does not matter essentially, as it was about an l iron-clad certainty that the pennant would bo , 'f safely tucked away by the Butte people before H jij' the end of the season. The baseball year is now Hi if, a thing of history, and it may be said in retrospec- H? 'J!' f tion that it has been by far the best baseball sea- B i son ever enjoyed in ZIon. The tail-enders finished H ' j( inxa sprightly fashion, and had they been in the H ( same form when the fight for the pennant began, M I we are inclined to think they would have had '' ji-'l an exalted place in the column of percentages. B " )fe f The closing games likewise demonstrated that Hf ' $ 'I Wiggs was easily superior to any other pitcher m" ! ij I in the league. The fans, in saying their adieus to B Ti I the Mormon team, expect to see mostof the old Kl '' t faces on the diamond again next year, and the Ki f general impression prevails that everything Is Krl ij! favorable for a very savory baseball season next Hf ') year. ''j! The mop-headed and grim-visaged football K' ji j gladiator has now taken the center of the stage. K The big colleges in their prelminary skirmshes B? j '! J have all shown up in excellent form by devour- L , , 3 ing the prep school teams in easy style. Lo- inJJ cally there has been more activity in football af- Hgf! j fairs than during any former season, and there HI'll should be some very lively battles on the local 11 Jj; gridiron before and after snow flies. The college Bf Wfj! teams appear determined to make the best pos- H H. sible showing, and with proper and industrious Ef , ' coaching there is no reason why they should not K 1 give the Colorado and Nevada, and even the Cali- B fornia teams a hard battle. H t i B ' B j Much interest will be shown here in the com- K i I ing' contest between Stanford and Berkeley, as i ,( each of the colleges is the alma mater of a num- Hf 1 ber of Salt Lakers, and several Utahns are now Ki at Stanford. Prognostications down on the coast, H iff based on the showing made in recent games, in- dicate that Stanford will probably again be vanquished van-quished by the University of. California. J tJ Appropos of the Great Promotor, M. B. Mulvey, the Miner says: Recent development? in the M. B. Mulvey-"Biddy" Mulvey-"Biddy" Bishop controversy indicate the former's sincerity in his recent avowed intention of shadowing shad-owing "Biddy" and preventing him from pulling off any battles. After having deftly twisted the tigers' tail and stopped the Herrera-McClelland fight in Portland, Mulvey followed the managers and principals of that pugilistic party to Seattle, where it was proposed to pull off a fight, and says that if they attempt to pull off the bout he will "buttinski" and stop it. The fighting game in Seattle stands in a balance, and fearing that if the Herrera-McClelland battle is stopped by Mulvey, Mul-vey, that the city officials will also stop the game entirely, the promoters of that fight are up a proverbial and time-worn stump with regard to the manner in which they should govern the present pres-ent situation. Mulvey bids fair, according to the statements of the Seattle papers, to make himself exceedingly unpopular in the sporting world unless un-less he lowers his hatchet and ceases to interfere with the sport in other cities. Already he has cost club managers the loss of considerable exchequer, ex-chequer, since one has been compelled to lose out on the Portland battle already, and if the bout does not take place in Seattle the club man there will be a heavy loser. & & A fight which should be a handsome and lively contest is one scheduled between Jimmie Britt and Charley Sieger, to be contested before the San Francisco club on the 16th of this month. Sieger is a sledge-hammer, aggressive fighter, in some respects similar In methods to Britt, and jumped into prominence recently by the splendid fighting form he showed in. a recent re-cent fight at Seattle with Rufe Turner. While the fight was declared a draw Turner Turn-er was practically .gone at the end of the twentieth round. Many sportsmen believe that Sieger will be about the hardest game Britt ever entered the roped enclosure with. Terry McGovern will be back in the ring again in a few days and during the next few weeks if all his bouts go through, will participate in six or seven battles. They will be mostly six-round contests, con-tests, to lie fought in Philadelphia and Boston. After that, Terry will be open to engagements with Herrera or any other heavy slugger who thinks he ought to be champion. Negotiations are on for a race between Smath-er's Smath-er's great runner McChesney and Haggin's Water-boy Water-boy for cf purse of $10,000. These are probably the two greatest racers of the season in their class. The recent defeat of McChesney, when he came in last at a mile and a quarter wjth a field of average horses, carrying an abundance of weight, was a source of great surprise to the talent, but has not lessened the confidence of Smathers in his fleet marvel. t5 (3 Jack Downey has floated into San Francisco with a boxer named Abbott under his wing, says Harry Cashman in the Chronicle., This is not Jack Downey of Brooklyn, but Jack fiowney of California, as he styles himself when asked as to his real identity. If one happens not to ask, and also recollects the old Brooklyn fighter who gave Frank Erne such fierce struggles six years ago, Jack Downey of California takes all the reflected glory he can assimilate and smiles blandly. With the connivance of Biddy Bishop, this chap, who is clamoring for recognition from the local fight-going fight-going public, managed to have the boxing game shut off entirely at Salt Lake a short time ago. The matchmaker of the club there had heard of the original Downey, and never hesitated a moment mo-ment to sign the counterfeit with Aurelia Herrera. Bishop was equally culpable, as his relations with California Jack date back to a time when Biddy posed as a fighter and cleaned up a neat sum, in Butte by touting himself to beat Mose Lafontise, forcing the odds down to 10 against 4 in his own favor and then taking a beating in two rounds. Downey unblushingly admits that he made a cherry ripe haul in the Salt Lake affair, and: in the same breath says he is a persecuted citizen. According to his own version he placed a big commission com-mission against the chance of staying ten rounds with Herrera, and then went up in the mountains to train. "Of course, I did not train much because I knew I had no chance to win. We fished most of the time," Downey said. "Did you claim to be the original Jack Downey?" Dow-ney?" was asked. "Rather than hurt the club I did not deny it when pressed," replied California Jack. All of which makes Abbott's prospects in California Cali-fornia appear a trifle dim. He may be ever so good a fighter, but the club manager with the temerity to negotiate with him would need a guardian appointed at one and the same time. . , . |