Show WHY IY NOT OT Ono One thing out at tho the Salt Palace seems to be on on the level even If t does go up and down And that Is 15 tho the bicycle racing Maybe Ia be there is crooke crookedness ness or other objectionable features In It But if Ie so the they are aro well concealed And I that Is maybe mabe as much as the reasonable reasonable rea rca man should ask for Cor But It seems pretty clear that the best man wins in the tho races race They certainly ride In earnest Some system tern tem has been devised le b by which the contests are really on their m merits rits Besides there Is no disgraceful bet bet- ting There Is no loud profanity anti anil indecent or 01 vulgar talking Thero Ther Is no drinking The Tho races are conducted admirably Now why cannot other sports be bo manase managed In precisely the same- same fashIon fash- fash Ion Here Herc Is an alleged club In hi hithe tho the city where prize fights tIghts are pull pulle 1 e. e 0 oft off whenever enough pugs can be assembled us- us to warrant bu buying a sponge for one of them to o throw up NoOne Noone No Noone one acquainted with the game believe believes be bo- lieve any of or the contests are aro on th the iho square And yet et a good boxing exhibition exhibition Is interesting There is probably probably proba proba- bly no other game unless game unless it be wrestling wrest wrest- ling which ling which so deman demands s the tho est exercise of physical powers as that of boxing Skill speed science courage courage courage cour cour- age resource an and plain strength ar are arcs some of or the requirements Brutality Is not a necessity In determining the superior boxer hoxer And it doesn't prove anything in the usual saloon games games- unless that one pug pug ha has been paid t t. t to let the other pug beat him The same Inquiry might be applied to other sports Because they are arc not I run honestly the they degenerate Into Inlo the i hands of disreputable The public cannot patronize them because they I are arc offen offensive lve In a score of or wa ways s In I I addition the people who attend aro are about one-half one unduly Intoxicated and the other half unnecessarily vulgar and profane Is there any good reason wh why bic bicycling bicycling bicy bicy- cling Is the only clean game Come to think of ot It the Tribune also holds Incorporation papers papel'S from rom the state Now ow la is It an established fact that no gentleman 1 I Is to work Voll un under er an assumed as name In the Ule employ of ot the board of or e education Some people talk about the tho protected pro interests as If Jt ever every one ben benefited bene bene- by the tariff got along without eating food or wearing clothes Now ow the United States I is said faid to have declared u It practical protectorate over o Honduras It will Ull bo ho a happy day a for or O Cr every country In Latin America America America Amer Amer- ica wh when n the bl big republic shall hall take supervision of at their affairs g. |