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Show Sport of -the WeeK After the latest experiment at Calder's Park, horse racing here seems to have gone into history, for the present year, at least. So far as known, there was no complaint on the part of the race-going race-going public, as the meet on Friday and Saturday was the best seen here for several years. The public pub-lic had simply become weary and refused to go, and the management had to slip out a handful of lucre that they didn't get at the gate. To be candid, can-did, it is not in the least surprising that local patrons pa-trons now cherish a healthy suspicion of anything in the form of a horse race that is pulled off here. They have been buncoed so long and so consistently consis-tently that the best they expected at any meet was a trimming that would give them a cold for weeks to come. The Agricultural park events gave considerable emphasis to this impression, impres-sion, as the racing festival there, it is but fair to state, was mismanaged in a manner past belief, in so much, as saith the psalms, that toward the latter part of the meet, sportsmen thought about as much of going there as of inviting in-viting themselves to be sandbagged. The fact is that there was no cause for complaint com-plaint at the Calder's Park meet, but experience had taught the public to look upon such happenings happen-ings with a suspicious eye. It all goes to show that the greatest of all sports has been v iecked here by poor and unreliable management, and the indications are that it will take a very discriminating discrimi-nating and honest promoter to resurrect the sport in Salt Lake. When Mr. S. H. Love, who has the confidence of everyone where the shadows of the Wasatch fall, was unable to do so on short notice, the task of making horse racing again popular I here looks quite Herculean. A big shaking up is required. Possibly it will come next year. In : I the present unsavory state of affairs, the prospect j does not look very alluring. As soon as a malodorous reputation is lived down, and we are delivered from the clutches of racing crooks, there will be something doing in that line, and not before. When Jimmie Gardner migrated from the east, J v.'here he had been wasting his time on very limi- , ted bouts and for purses of quite limited extent, he did something which all his friends had advised ad-vised for the past several months, for just at present pres-ent San Francisco furnishes the very best rialto in the world for pugilists of high class. On account of his failure to keep an agreement to meet Joe Gans there, the coast sports did not meet him with any great amount of amiability, and' in order to show their disapproval, they matched him with Rufe Turner, generally dreaded by light weights and considered the toughest game in his class in the vicinity of the Golden Gate. The subsequent battle showed that no better match could have been made for Jimmie to exhibit his fistic talents. He entirely outclassed and out-punched out-punched the dusky terror, and in one evening converted con-verted the skeptical coast sports to the idea that he is easily one of the greatest fighters in his division.. di-vision.. Now there is quite a revulsion of feeling thereabouts towards Gardner, and the enthusiasts enthusi-asts are already clamoring to see Jimmie again, with either Joe Gans or Buddy Ryan as his opponent. op-ponent. While the public is quite fickle down in that section, nowhere are there fistic patrons who so quickly appreciate a scientific glove juggler. Apparently the Lowell youngster suits them very well, indeed, and if he can extract another pair of pounds from his weight, it looks more than likely that he will be given the chance he has long coveted for a melee with Jimmie Britt or Battling Nelson. Cycling here this season has been quite up to the standard established at Vailsburg or elsewhere else-where where that sport holds the center of the outdoor stage. At that, there is a chance to make the game even more attractive. There should be more open professional events than were furnished fur-nished on Tuesday evening's card, and the miss and out race which was billed as the star event should be forgotten for all time. Then the motor races might be omitted with profit. Several times these machines have nearly resulted in disasters, and on Tuesday night a tragedy was very narrowly nar-rowly averted. People who go to the saucer have no particular thirst for gore, and do not care to see an exhibition resembling a bull fight, and it would be no mistake at all if these dangerous machines ma-chines were eliminated from the track except for pacing purposes. Sprinters themselves object to motor races, which furnish no evidence of the racing ability of the rider and are only to a certain extent thrilling because of the likelihood of the operator having his clavicle bone transferred to a plank or embedded in the heart of a telegraph pole. With these belching nuisances used only for pacing and with more professional sprint races added, there would be nothing left to be desired in the bi-weekly meets. The interstate tennis meet which has been held at the Fort Douglas grounds during the past week, and which in all probability will not be finished until the middle of next week, is the most important event of the kind that this little section of the map has been favored with. And the quality of tennis that has been shown during the tourney has never been excelled on the local courts. There has been an unusual amount of interest shown in every event, and' as the fight for the finals progresses, the interest is more intense. And, by the way, the winners in all the contests will know that they have been playing tennis. Our local productions have displayed some remarkable re-markable work and perhaps the keenest contest of the week was that in the singles between the Salisbury brothers, though the way those girls leaned on their smashes in the championship for women's doubles furnished excitement enough for anyone. This was a hard fought contest from start to finish, being won by Miss Williams and Miss Humphrey, who defeated Miss Miller and Miss Lyons. The work of the foreigners, Hunt, Neel and Myers, has been greatly appreciated, and the defeat de-feat of Brown and Badger in singles by the wiry Californian was exhibit "A" in the week's work. The Roberts, Badgers and many others are playing their usual strong games, and pleasing improvement is marked in many players over their work of a year ago. This is most noticeable in Boyd's game, who, at this writing, has made the semi-finals. The state championship which is scheduled for the last of the month will be terrible to con-templace, con-templace, if the interest and improvement holds the pace that has been started. |