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Show B I Sporting Gossip B ' The announcement that Manager B Blankenship of the Skyscrapers will B , probably sever his connection with B ' the Salt Lake team at the end of the fl ' season is sad news for the fans, with B whom he is more popular than any B I player on the team which is now mak- B 1 ing a spectacular finish in what will B probably be a successful effort to B i gather in the pennant for 1911. B t The Salt Lake team, when Blank- B enship is playing and when he is not, B is just as different as if two entirely B different teams were playing, ana it B will be the greatest r 'stake in the B world if Cooley allow him to get B away. Pie is one of the headiest B players in the business; he can al- B ways be depended upon for a hit; as B a base runner he has few equals, and, B i combined with these and other quali- B ties, fie has the complete confidence of B his men. With Blankenship behind B ( . the bat or on first, there is an esprit B de corps in the Salt Lake team that H is certainly lacking when ho is out of H the game, and unless he insists on B leaving with the idea of bettering B himself financially, every effort should H 1 be made to hold him. KThis is particularly true inasmuch as together with the announcement of hiB probable withdrawal comes the Hffj story that Abbott, who recently came Hi here and was placed on the first bag H by his old friend Cooley, will be the H probable successor of Blankenship. It H has been said that he is a great or- H ganizer and just tne right man to H bring the team to machine perfection. H That remains to be seen, and the H fans are very dubious over the pros- H pect. If his performances in Salt H"t Lake are to be taken as a criterion, H ! Cooley will make a big mistake by H putting Abbott in charge. There Hi eems to be nothing in his personality H( or peculiar brand of humor that Hl should make him extremely popular, H either with the fans or the players; Hi his errors on first have not served to H raise him in their estimation as a H. i ball player; he can't hit, he has a bad Hi wing, and nothing he has done would Hi j serve to indicate that he has got a H baseball noodle. If he is to be re- Hj: tained at all the additional mistake Hu of placing him in a position of au- Hi thority should not be made. H) M There has not been a fight here in H ' years of so much interest to the fans B as the forthcoming battle between H . Matty Baldwin of Boston and Johnnie vi Frayne of San Francisco. Twenty B I round bouts have been tabooed in BJ Salt Lake far years, and the bouts H s scheduled at the Salt Palace next Hi j week at the benefit for the widow or B I the late Sergeant Johnston, will draw B an exceedingly heavy patronage. But B .. two great fights have been held ai the Bj Salt Palace in the past the famous Brf Root-Gardner battle, and the one in Hl which the Battler put Spider Welch B to sleep while climbing the champion- B? ship ladder bofore his memorable con- BJ tests on the coast, which put him at Hrf the head of his class. While the Bald- Bi win-Frayne event will not equal in w; importance either of those above B 1 mentioned, it will serve to again put Bjj Salt Lake on the boxing map, and WJ will probably be a great contest. Both Bu boys are clever, have good records B I and the card will prove an attraction H for thousands of local sports and H 1 thoae from near-by citieB, for any fan Bj interested in the fight game would B J rather see a lightweight contest than B"l any other kind, and tne Salt Palace BJ will probably hold five or six thou- IBfi sand people on the night of the battle. jjfl I There will be other events besides the tt main-one, and the assured success of Fj this affair means that It will be the wl forerunner of other pugilistic events Hi' worth seeing. The contest will be under the management of Hardy Downing, who has done a great deal to promote the sport during the past year. It is a matter of conjecture as to who will conduct the races at the Salt Palace next season, but it seems to be the concensus of opinion that Hardy Downing will be in charge. Downing is justly popular in Salt Lake sporting circles, and has had considerable experience in managing sporting events of all kinds. The popularity of the bicycle game has waned a little during the past season or two, but It is believed that all that is necessary to regain the hold it had formerly will be to spend some money at the Salt Palace. Many improvements improve-ments are needed, and if it were pos siblo to raise $25,000 to $50,000 at one time and place the entire amount in sufficient attractions at the grounds to draw and hold the people, there would be no question about the future fu-ture popularity of the Bport. Plans are on foot, it is said, to gather this amount, and if they are successtul, Salt Lakers will be assured of one oi the best tracks in the country, together to-gether with other attractions that will make the Palace grounds a magnet mag-net for thousands of pleasure seek ers. The victory of Jackie Clarke over Iver Lawson on Tuesday night secured secur-ed the right of that rider to contest with Kramer for the world's cham pionship, the final heats of which will be run on Tuesday next. During the preliminary trialB on Friday of last week there was much dissatisfaction over the referee's decision in the two-mile two-mile open professional when "Walker was given first place and Hehir second. sec-ond. The decision looked very bad from the grandstand, and the crowd expressed itself in no uncertain terms. When this was followed by the giving of the third heat in the national championship race to Clarke, Lawson being disqualified on a foul, the fans let out a roar that could be heard for miles, tor it a foul was committed com-mitted very few if any of them saw it, and as Lawson was the popular favorite fav-orite and was certainly riding in his very best form, the officials were roundly scored by all except the Clarke enthusiasts. However, his victory vic-tory over Lawson the following 'iues-day 'iues-day settled the question beyond any doubt, though it is believed he will haA a very hard battle in taking the honors from Kramer. Kramer is a big, strong rider wtih a whirlwind spurt, and if Clarke takes the championship cham-pionship from him he will certainly arn it. Reverting to the last heat of the match race a week ago yesterday, Lawson's friends think that ho made a great mistake in not taking advantage advan-tage of the slip made by Clarke when he could have easily won from the Australian by a timely spurt at this period of the race, which would have eliminated any question of the foul which was said to have occurred in the back stretch in the following lap. The decision of Simon Bamberger, -which definitely settles that there 'A will be r race meet here this fall, w moans tL. the ponies will not come again until the spring of 1912. In this connection it is announced that the racing will cover a longer period than during the past season, going to sixty or even ninety days. The races this spring1 and summer brought all kinds of moneyed men to the city, and the bookies, promoters pro-moters and others left a goodly sum ' here before the meeting was over. The track was far enough from the city to make it more or less of a, moneyed man's game, and no one was hard hurt by the presence of the , , horses and the horsemen. Salt Lake is getting to be a great sporting cen- tor, and whenever that condition of affairs strikes a town, it is very apt to become what is termed a "live one." n B ftHHK3K!KK3EraBi99ZnBH9RHffKgHSKL fvH ' 'Ki'irAtH H vtM pwkmim Mim jrT.igaaT. vxmm Aj&i'.2HpJH v. KLJ?VHHHBHHHBPIlHHIHHHHHttiK HH X I &22iiHuikLlBH BrTHEL-TffiiTMrPl tfftcrg H"1 SS33Hlli UktmVI'Atfc 'fir ' 1 -Ig A.,ikAgSHfctiiMlKBHiHlMBifc H BBHPfiw 4 Tr$'zif4 .-BMih)sgMiiiBB fHHBHHBHIfll Ltpjrlght by Undtrwttd Bif Undcrwcid, N. V. THE CLOSEST AND MOST HAIR-RAISING BASEBALL SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. The teams of the National League have this season, furnished an exhibition of the closest and keenest fought battles for baseball supremacy In the history of the organization. The plcturo above shows: (1) Mordocai Brown, crack pitcher of the Chicago nine; (2) Zimmerman, clover third bnsoman of the Chl-cagos; Chl-cagos; (3) Paskort In the act of scoring a run for Philadelphia; (4) Alexander, the famous pltr' or of tho Phlla-dolphlans; Phlla-dolphlans; (5) Dooln, manager and catcher of tho Quakor City aggregation, (C) 'Chief" Mr r, Now York's catcher and heavy hitter, (7) Matthewson, tho superb pltcbor of the Now York's, (8) tho now 'Horse Shoo stadium stad-ium at New York City, (9) Brosnahan, manager and catcher of St. Louis, and (10) Steele, one of tho best pitchers of tho St. Louis team. |
