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Show K ill 11! Sporting Life. nVi Ins II t Tlie Besk Team n ne World seems to be trav- nK 'niLl' elling a rocky way since it left the genial atmo- i M l ' If' ' sphere of'Zion for the foliage of the Northwest. Bj s f f It is ih6ught probable among the local fans that H i J 1 their recent reversals are due to a severe attack H , I 1 1 , of heimweh. Still there are sunny days coming, I 1 11 for one McCloskey is going to grasp the nnl fill Salt Lako franchise and have Buck Weaver do the nnV iifl thinking for the team. Nothing would suit local nnl Sill i ns uetter than, to have the present season close nnl 'I ill! I under this regime, with the prospect of similar nl t !( ' managerial control for next, year. f ' nnnnT si B $ ni n I Is 1 11 One Martin Mulvey, Prizefight Promoter, has n i I ' I spent the past ten days up in Portland in a stren- H ) ', 'iijj H uous en(ieavor to stop the prospective fight be- I 1 I 111 tween Herrera and McClelland. This he is trying j : fif1 to do on account of the deep damnation of his H I 1 spite against Biddy Bishop. It Is too late to say M (j! 1 1 i j ' in this issue whether or not The Great Promotor B '11 ; has succeeded in his campaign against Bishop. H i j II i Sports "hereabout have no particular regard for m J I if ! Biddy Bishop, but they will certainly cheer him n " : f I r on if he wins a victory over the promotor of the H Iff Herrera-Downey swindle. Mr. Mulvey is a blus- H 'f I tering old Banquo at the pugilistic banquet, and it H ill i is hoped that the expansive old bluffer will be H lff bumped in the present controversy as well as in H Is 'I' any other of his abortive maneuvers in prize ring H, ' : i I ' ' affairs. Now that the big Promotor has so dis- Hj ' 1 1 9 gusted the public that he Will never be able to Hj engineer another fight here, his sole sordid am- H j i I bitlon appears to be to frustrate the efforts of any - H I i j one else to promote a contest. I nl fl I Hjljjfl Jjl I .An effort isbeing made by McDonald, owner Hjpf ipffll ofthe great gelding, Major Delmar, to have a I I lit !Hf jnatch race between his flyer and Lou Dillon, I rial lij queen of the turf, and has offered to wager $20,- B Hlff II 000 that the gelding can defeat the chestnut mare. I '''II Jf A-s IaJr Delmar has a recent mark of 2-1, a I 'Ifil'sfi match race between the two wonders would be H ir II ft! one the most attractive turf events in the his- I I ill i if tory of racinS Mr Billings has not yet consent- I 'if III fit ecl to let Lou Dlllon try conclusions with the stal- nM Jj-M'ltflii ' v lion. He has always adhered to the rule of never permitting any of his horses to be entered in a race f or money. V t v After making the atmosphere of the Bowery luiid with defls, Monroe has finally decided to go in the ring with Jeffries on October 16, although he made strenuous efforts to have the fight postponed post-poned until a later date. The general impression, especially among the fighters who have been in the way of some of Jeffries' swings, Is that Monroe Mon-roe will come out of the ring looking like he had held an argument with a circular saw. V George Siler, in a recent discussion of ring af-; af-; fairs, has this to say about the fighting Cornish-man Cornish-man (and others: "Bob Fitzslmmons is again on the rampage and says he will fight any man in the world, nobody' no-body' barred. His including Jeffries in his defiance de-fiance to the pugilistic world is accepted by the followers of the sport with a grain of salt, as it goes without saying that Bob at heart knows he Is not in the champion's class. There are other and easier fish for Fitz to fry than Jeff. One of these is Gardner, who is hankering after the lanky lan-ky one's game. Two clubs, one in San Francisco, and the International of Fort Erie, are after the match, and the money offered by either of them ought to bring the men together. j & t "Gus Gardner, who has been hopscotching over the country, posing as an A-l fighter on the strength of defeating Joe Gans and other good men, but always for the loser's end, scoied.'an unearned draw in his fight with Martin Duffy In Saginaw early in the week. TJnbiased witneses of the contest say Duffy made him look a fifth rater rat-er in every round but one, and in that he scored a scratch hit which staggered Duffy,, , tw t "By defeating Johnny Regan in St Louis Thursday night Abe Attell intends to claim' the featherweight championship. The boy says he can fight at 122 pounds, which, before Young Cor-bett Cor-bett and Terry McGovern raised the scale' of weights, was the limit. His argument is undoubtedly undoubt-edly right, but it is a question if the general pub- lie will accept him as the champion under the wpight conditions." V V tv - Great activity is being shown in football af- j fairs in Colorado and other nearby states. There example in getting an early start should be followed fol-lowed by local athletes of the gridiron. Local teams have invariably been late in starting, and the result has been that as soon as a team was in form to do some fast work the close of the season has stopped the deal. |