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Show Sporting Life. Ther will be a fight on local grounds on or about the 30th of the present month between Martin Duffy, the white welterweight champion, and Jerry McCarthy, and a short time later Jack Clifford will try conclusions with Buddy Ryan. These events have been arranged by the management man-agement of the Shamrock Club, and all that remains re-mains to make the mills a certainty is for the managers of the fighters to post a forfeit of $250 each with one of the local banks, to insure a square fight. As the fighters are men of distinction dis-tinction in the fistic world, there Is little doubt that the forfeit money will be forthcoming. By the terms of the contract the public is thoroughly thorough-ly protected against any possible pugilistic fake. O w v Labor Day at Calder's Pavk promises to be the biggest day of the season at that popular resort. re-sort. The last horse races of the season occur on that date, and promise to be excellent with a fine list of entries. Besides the regular sports there will be any amount of fun with prizes for everybody. An automobile race will be one of the features, and also a public marriage, or two, the contracting parties to receive handsome prizes. Calders will be packed on Monday. ( c5 The Salt Palace begins a racing carnival on Monday which will last six nights, and the wind up of the season will be a lively affair with the feature Carnival Company that will appear at the popular resort. V ((X icfi PERSECUTION OF "AUTO" OWNERS. Local authorities are making war upon auto-mabilists auto-mabilists who run their machines upon the streets faster than eight miles an hour. Eight miles an hour is no speed at all for an automobile. It is a snail's pace well enough, perhaps, for the heart of the town, but wearisomely monotonous in the outlying districts. The automobile is built for speed and for nothing but speed. Limit the speed as the city authorities would limit it, and the owners own-ers of fine machines might as well send them to the junk heap. Again, it is absurd to arrest auto-mobilists auto-mobilists for running at a good pace in the later hours of the night or early hours in the morning. There is no one abroad to be hurt, no, or very few, horses to be frightened. And so far as concerns con-cerns the frightening of horses, it is the present writers' observation that the men who drive the horses are more frightened than the horses themselves, them-selves, and communicate their fright to the horses. Automobilists, generally, are not the monsters they are pictured. The popular idea of them is made up of Impressions from the work of funny writers and cartoonists, all highly exaggerated. The automobile accidents are exploited at length. It's popular to do so, because automobilists are supposed to be wealthy, and it's proper to "take a crack at" wealthy folks. There's a great deal of balderdash, flub-dub and tommy-rot spoken and written about automobilists, and it is unjust to a lot of very decent and not at all blood-thirsty persons who like to take a spin behind fine machines. As a result of this foolish writing and talking, the authorities, looking for popularity, proceed against automobilists almost to the limit of persecution. And persecution won't do. St. Louis Mirror. |