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Show SPORTS. The Base Ball Situation. "What make you jump?" The magnate said. "It's spring", the player cried. "I've been against the old steamed beer And I'm full of hops inside." Sung by Frank J. McNichols of Salt Lake and Frisco for the Joseph-IIai-ris Phonograph company! of Utah and California. Tr-r-r-r-ump diddy-ump-ump ump-ump. This touching little cadenza finally resulted in the permanent location of the popular short stop back in the chimney corner of the old homestead and the local fans once more wear a pleasant look, nis return has strengthened the team wonderfully notwithstanding not-withstanding the three straight defeats last week at Ogden and with a couple of cracking good pitchers added to the at present wabbly buneh of slab artists ar-tists the Wings should have a look in for the pennant pen-nant if the schedule is played to the limit. And there's the rub. During the past week a rumor, which has gained in strength as it toddled along, has set some of the wise ones on the inside guessing. It is nothing more nor less than' that the present leaguo will explode as an aftermath of the glorious Fourth and whether it will ro-organize with Logan, Ogden and Salt Lake as the teams in is only a matter flB of conjecture at pi-esent. It's a "lead pipe," however, that something is going to do the thud act before ll many more harvest moons. A good guess is, provid- 89 ing all the teams concerned conclude to play out the flU string, that Logan will loop the loop, let out Pres. WM Keelcr, who knows as much about running a ball Bl team as a Digger squaw does about ping pong, to- M gethcr with Manager Harry Stoney, and re-organize Hffl Avith new "angles" putting up the sinews of war and Bfl a more competent man, perhaps, at the helm. Of ffifl course, if ' Logan sloughs entirely, it will be the HH Big Three for Logan has too good a team at preseent IH to cut out the national pastime at that resort and 91 when one is wise to the inside of the inner workings 91 of the Logan and Salt Lake teams, it wouldn't take BH even a glance at the "dope" sheet to make a book BH on the Wings being the team that will be sacrificed Dfl unless it is strengthened up wonderfully before the BB second week in July. The Farmers and "Old Man D of the Sea" Weaver arc the most popular bunch that play this city and an amalgamation of the best players of both teams, with a pick at the Logan out. M casts would make up a mob of ball actors that would M throw the harpoon into the Lobsters or any other jH old .team that 'ever blew over "the range. It is a jjB pretty well assured fact that every team in the league has lost money and "such a business" brings large 9 lumps up in the throats of the "powers behind the H thrown." It must be made up. If July 4 doesn't do B it watch for a pyrothechnical display not down on the card. H Another glance at the dream book shows a hand- IB some painting of the merry gang of prize fighters MB or rather, fudgers doing the hot foot out of the HH city they have infested for so long for the council H took the matter up at the meting last Tuesday night. H and passed an ordinance which one of the August jB body in formed me was very much like what is termed H the "vag" law and furthermore stated that it would H be enforced. H |
