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Show I -111.. - ,r - II. " fo"- & S' J&JJJfhffil flT f) I "Oh, the harvest days are over, Jessie dear," is the touching little ditty that the sketch team of Young Corbett and Terry McGovern is now singing sing-ing for the benellt of the sporting public. The action ac-tion of the authorities regarding the battle was looked for by some of the wise heads in the sporting sport-ing line, and came from the simple reason that the fight was advertised as being for the championship cham-pionship of the world at the featherweight limit. Being barred out at Hartford, Conn., for the same reason the managers were not clever enough to cut that part of the advertisement out of the bills, and carried it with them to Kentucky, where tho people, although very strenuous in following anything promulgated by Col. Bourbon, would not bo buffaloed by such a dry article as a prize fight. The gents who stood up on their hind legs and howled for the elimination of such a brutal thing as a prize fight stood around and laughed gleefully glee-fully at the stringing up of a nigger, who, while suspected of a heinous crime, was not adjudged guilty by tho authorities owing to the excellent argument ar-gument he put up in defense, caught at this point lu the advertisement of the fight, and by pushing it along to the proper officials and beating it into their blocks by continued hammering, the "anvil chorus" ultimately won out. At the present writing there are only two places where such an event could be pulled off namely, Utah or California. It is more than possible that the big event could take place in Zion without any trouble with the authorities, but will not from the fact that the so-called sporting element out in this section of the "generous West" refuse to put up the necessary coininsky to carry such a proposition prop-osition through. Alec Greggains of San Francisco, the manager of the club where Jeffries and Fitz-simmons Fitz-simmons fought their championship battle, is after the match with both hooks out strong, and if he keeps to his promises will undoubtedly land it. The principals have verbally agreed to meet some time during December at tho club offering them the largest purse. That is all for the present regarding re-garding the battle of the featherweights. In football the season opens this afternoon with a game between the high school teams of Salt Lake and Ogden at the Junction City. The local bunch are apt to surprise tho confident lads from Weber county, for the reason that the latter, judging from the make-up of last year's eleven, which went up from this city, are apt to toss a few surprise sur-prise bouquets into the camp of the Tigers herded by their Princeton coach. The High school team Is one of the heaviest aggregations that has ever turned out from the institution, and while that fact has been kept under cover by Coach Boyle, It woll come out in this afternoon's game. To show their confidence, it.is needed to say that they nae arranged games with the husky teams of the University of Utah and Logan Agricultural col- ege. Neither of these last-named teams take part o a game until the first week in October, spend-tog spend-tog all their time in practicing new formations an" getting them off smoothly. Games have been arranged to be played here with the Universities t Oregon and Idaho, while the expected contest with Nevada has fallen through, whether from ue fact that the gents from that State were oozj ' when the Utah contingent was mentioned J0 them after last year's defeat or not is not Known. The boldiers at the fort are proceeding to get rosy w ith tho oval, and have formed a team which, nff? it becomes wise to some of the fine points P.1 tne game, will give any of the long-haired de-uneators de-uneators around this burg a run for the money. . f he coming week will be devoted entirely to the Norsemen and their animals who will perform at An x State fair, which commences Tuesday. the favorite bits of horse flesh are entered, gj?ng them being Wells & Stone's new fast pacer, "0. " ho has just returned from the Northwest, nere j has eQn Winnin& a Cin(is 0f money, 5b i5 Sf cond Place In tue Seattle races, and beat-R beat-R nis vanquisher, Sam Bowers, at the Everett lem and tekinS fourth money at tho recent Sain!, Sa-in!, r?ces he comes back here with a bunch of S ent lights over hIs brow wIth which t0 ow the local horses that they are members of the "four back seats for smokers" gang. Hal Brown is the only confident man in the list of entries en-tries in tho fast class, as he says that he will take chances with Altoka, his pot, who has a record of 2:10, but as Altoka has been in the stud practically prac-tically all season, with very little practice on the track, it is hard to see where Brown's horse fits in. It looks more like what horsemen call, a "dead entry." Frank Wilson's Sarah Green, George Robinson's Rob-inson's Julia A. and C. J. Crabtree's Monroe S. will be tho other horses in the race, and the last-named last-named is likely to spring a huge surprise on the other horses. Hobo, however, should have a cinch. |