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Show Utl PLAYERS EAT JUST AS THEY LIE In only a few points is the liaining of a ball club similar to that of the boxer Both the ball player and the fighter run on tho road, and both are nibbed down by their trainers. Thai about ends the similarity, and even the road work is soon limitc-l to tho pugilist, for the ball plaer, as soon as the daily practice games are in full blast gets all the road wdrk he requires in chasing round the bases. The boxer skips the rope, Juggles dumb bells and Indian clubs and tosj- il m.i t-li ml. . i. -it l. es mo meuiciue uuii. iuc uun jjju.t seldom or never does any of these things. It the boxer is ovcrfat he starves himself, steams in hot baths and does everything to get the fleao off all at one effort. After the fight Is over he lets the flesh all come back The ball player removes the fat b field exercise, or possibly by wearing a rubber shirt In addition to ordinary costume. He tries to get tho surplus weight off graduallj and once It is removed tried to keep it off until un-til October. Tho training tables of fighters and bail players is where tho greatest difference dif-ference is noticeable. Fighters restrict re-strict themselves lo lean meats, stale bread, tea. a littlo ale and verj little water. Ball players eat like wolves-, consume fat and lean meats alike, fresh bread, hot biscuits, pie, cako, ice cream, coffee and, ever and anon, when no one is looking, a tub of beer. It can be frankly stated that a bail player would starve on the food offered of-fered to a fighter and that a trainer would go mad with horror at the idea of a fighter going against the chew demanded by a ball player Every famous physical cultuie expert, every authority on the dieting of athletes would write against 75 por cent of the stuff devoured by ball players three times a day. Yet the players eat this wild mixture of sweets and sours and who ever heard of one of them collapsing from indigestion. OWNERS EXCEED THE EXPENSE LIMIT "The Union association finds itself in trouble, although the season is not yet three weeks old, and the entire difficulty is caused by certain club owners trying to make the pennant race a certainty, regardless of tho league rules or expenses," says Floto. "They are not only doing a great in-Jury in-Jury to tho other magnates, but they are injuring themselves financially, and wll find in a short time that their expensive teams will not draw, either at homo or abroad, and it will lire a difficult matter to keep things going throughout the season with all the clubs losing monev An impromptu im-promptu meeting was held in Salt lake last week at which the question ques-tion was discubsed, and another will be held in Butte in the near future, as it is imperative that the Salt Lake and Great FallB teams he compelled to remain within the salary limit." LANDS MIKE LYNCH. If there is any one player in this loague who can" pull off the sensational sensa-tional stuff it is Mike Lynch MIko gotB away with a good one every few days Ills latest was in that Spokane series recently. Wuffli lined a vicious drlvo to left center and the crowd started to yell. There was nothing to it. Lynch got away with the crack of tho bat Ills experienced eye made it plain to him that ho had to come in and in he came at a terrific clip. When he saw he was not going to reach the ball in time Mike took one long chanco and raado a headlong dive forward and picked the ball off his very toes. He waB going so fast ho turned a complete Boraorsault and came up with the ball in his hand. The official scorer at Spokane says there is no man in the league that has it on Mike, when it conies to running run-ning In on the line drives. And in this tho young man is quite correct. Tacoma News. GREAT FALLS WINS Great Falls took a' double-header rrom Helena Sunday afternoon, the scores being 9 to 2 and 15 to 14 Tho pennant winners outhit and outfielde.l the Ilelona boys at every stage of the game, and the result was no surprise to the crowd in attendance Murphy, the Great Falls right fielder, field-er, got a home run in the first game, and opened the second game with another an-other swat that sent the ball outside the nark and put a long, straight mark on tho scoreboard Mcars. who was pitching at that time, went up in tho air immediate and was removed from the box after walking the next two men up. Kei -meycr is credited with having pitched a great game Huelsman succeeded m batting two runs. SALT LAKE GETS BOTH Kelly, who chased a man off third nase and lost a game for Salt Lake one day last week, retrieved his reputation rep-utation Sunday afternoon In the last frame of the double-header with Butte by driving out the longest home-run ever hit on the Salt Lake field. Dick CooIe's team won both games, the scoies being 14 to 2 and 9 to I. Kafora, the Butte pitcher, was spiked spik-ed earlv In tho first .game and was leplaced "by Strlpp, who didn't do verv well Morgan pitched good ball m the first game and Jensen, notwithstanding notwith-standing the cold weather, threw a good game late in the afternoon and won the victory for his team. MEYERS IS GREAT BATTER Chief Meyers, catcher ,for the New York giants, who finished the first two weeks of the season with a batting bat-ting average well over .000, which breaks all records Here and there ball players have gone over 500 for a week, but only to fade and fall back. In four of nine games Meyers iuit uaiivu j.uuii ciiiu iiiuiucil i;uiv wallop was a square whack that landed where the fielders were not Tyrus Cobb never "placed" them as well as Meyers has this year T rus had better get started right away if he expects to be the premier man with tho ash. WEISER MAKES GOOD. The St. Louis Times contains a large picturo of "Weiser" Doll, the Butte lad who is now on the pitching staff of the St. Louis Cardinals. Under the caption, "Bill Dell, when others go, ho gets a chance. Bill is working regularly now as relief pitcher for tho Cardinals." The big fellow is shown in the uniform of the SL Louis Nationals, Na-tionals, and will undoubtedly prove a winning pitcher for Bresnahan before the season is over, as he has everything every-thing but experience, and is getting that every day watching the big leaguers play and going la the box occasionally. oc-casionally. JONHSON REFUSES $30,000. Jack JohnBon has rejected an offer of $30,000 by Hugh Mcintosh to meet Sam Langford in a boxing contest in Australia, according to an announcement announce-ment today by T. S Andrews of Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, American representative for Mcintosh. Andrews got in touch with the champion on receipt of a cablegram and was given tho 'answer, "Nothing doing." (Continued on Pago Five.) uu (Continued from Page Two.) NOT AFRAID FIGHT WILL BE STOPPED When Jack Curley was shown the dispatch from Las Vegas which stated stat-ed tho governor would stop the John-son-Flynn bout, he said: "Of course the governor will stop the fight if there is a law. He is bound to do so and so expressed himself him-self to me when I saw him and talked matters over. But fortunately there Is no law In New Mexico against fights and tho governor assured mo that he would not interfero and take it upon himself to stop tho fight in that case. Tho Tripp bill that has Just passed the legislature down thero has nothing at all to do with the battle bat-tle It will not go Into effect for 90 dayB and by that 'time our fight will be" over. The whole thing hinges itself it-self on one fact, whether or not there Is a law to prevent it. That's the paramount issue with the governor. He Is going to seo that no laws are violated but he is going to be fair enough to say that in case there is no law controlling the situation he himself him-self is not going to make it a personal matter. "Governor McDonald Is a very popular pop-ular man In Now Mexico and he knows that tho majority of the peoplo of the state wish the battle to tako place. Ho is not going to interfero with their wishes In the matter, under un-der the circumstances, as thoy present pre-sent themselves to him today. I havo overy roason to believe that the bat tie will tako place and so have the Las Vegas people. I havo $10,000 of their money as a forfeit In caso the battle Is stopped and I don't think tho governor Is going to allow the business men of Las Vegas to lose their money without even getting a run for It" |