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Show m Sporting hife. B: It was again postponed. The suffering and H incensed gods, believing that if the ink destroyers K' of the Press Club and the gymnastic nine of the Commercial Club were permitted to meet in pyro-B pyro-B technical combat on Walker's battlefield, there K would ensue an aftermath of vituperative dithy-m dithy-m rambs which, would doom the manipulators thereof to the uttermost borders of perdition, B magnanimously unloaded, a Jovian, cartload, of. K water upon the scene. o battle and thereby pre M vented these voicy gladiators from coming to-m to-m gether. As soon as tha water was observed, the layers fled with bleak screams of terror. As. a direct result of this unspeakable catastrophe, current literature will lose some brilliant para- graphs and the schools will close. The postponement is assuredly a public disaster. dis-aster. Every one wished to see Mr. Fred Harris picking dust out of his hair and redhot spheres out of the ground; there was also a general and clamorous desire to see Fisher Harris in action and to see Mackenzie wielding the bat in imitation imita-tion of a misspent life. Croll's appearance would have been heralded with salvos of joy, In view of his prospective beautiful demonstration of the complete divorce between a baseball and a bat. Still, the 10,000 people who will questionless attend this contest need not despair. Some day the battle will occur, and it is expected that the earth and some of the adjacent planets will be jarred by the reverberations of the conflict. 5 v v All the summer resorts will be going at full swing on Decoration day. At Calder's horse racing rac-ing will be the feature, and the Lagoon and Salt-air Salt-air will provide the usual attractions. &y 5 iv The proposed. mat;ch between Herrara and Billy Bil-ly De Coursey would be the biggest drawing card since the Root-Gardner go last summer. However , the chances of seeing these two in the ring at Salt Lake are not very promising. The latest news concerning the match is that the Mexican is willing but De Coursey prefers to fight in i Butte, and not in Salt Lake. It looks as though this might be only another qne of the excuses for which fighters are noted, when they see a prob- , ability of defeat in a proposed match. The ? fight followers here are anxious to see Herarra. go against a top-notcher or two and see if their confidence in him is justified. Aside from Clifford Clif-ford he has not met a man who cou,ld be called a good one. Clifford, while not a top notch man, had a bad punch which, when he landed it usually got the money, But, when he met the dark skinned boy, he was as holpless as any of the itinoraut mit artists whom the foxy Biddy Bishop has selected se-lected as opponents for his protege. If the match between these two is made it ought to be brought to Salt Lake. 5 O O The rain of the past week has temporarily com yelled the laying1 aside of the mask and bat and has caused the magnates to shudder at the thought of the salaries which are incessant. in-cessant. The first of the expected slfahe ups in the teams came at the Salt Lake etfd. Obrien and Spaulding were released ostensibly osten-sibly on account of ill health, but by those who are in on the know it is understood that some fric-t'en fric-t'en has arisen between Christie and these players. play-ers. Christie gives promise of being a good man tor a captain-manager. He is an incessant worker and will undoubtedly keep his men in shape and get what there is in them out of them, how much this is remains to be seen. Let the game go on and may'the best team win. &fc v 5 It was good to see the way Hausen was applauded ap-plauded when he came to bat in the first Salt Lake game and later when he made one or two star plays. It was praise where it belongs. T. L. |