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Show ANOELS AND BEES CLASH TODAY i i McCredie's Men Home for ; Week's Series With Los J Angeles Hart to Talk. i SALT LAKE. April 16. For some minutes befon- the Hrst Angel slimier slim-ier drpgs his willow club to the brand new plate at Bonneille park this afternoon af-ternoon for the first bosttle art In thej opening of the roast league season in 1 this ciiy, patriotism will be allowed to! run rampant. As a fitting Inspiration to a ?roat i xhibiiion of the national pastime "Old Glory" will be flung to the breeze from the new sixty foot Stool flag pole in true military style j t'orrect military form will be Insured from tho fact that Sergeant Frank E Leadbrtter and Captain ftfcFee Mr-Fee Mr-Fee McRobbins of the Fnited States! marine corps will have the ceremonies j under their charge. As the Stars and Stripes rise slowly slow-ly to their ordained position Lh ton a parade of the visiting Angels and ' the home-coming Bees will celebrate, in a fitting wa, the event After the proper interval the stage will be cleared to allow William S. "Bill' Hart, the hero and villain of count -j less screen performances, to show in; a three minute appeal for the cause j of the third Liberty loan that he is not a mere moving shadow upon the canvas. Ample police protection is I promised in case "Bill" should give way to his two-gun tendencies and i commence shooting up the park. Don't Be Misled. The gentleman who may be dis- corned gingerly twisting his right armj Jurinp the progress of the speech should not be mistaken for h bomb-thrower, bomb-thrower, as he will make his identity known a few minutes later when he mounts the hazardous heights from which many a man has seen his hopes link in a precipitous manner simultaneously simul-taneously with the bent fingor of the! manager on the bencn. When Chief' Justice J. B. Frick, for it will be he, gets a toe hold on the pitcher's plate everything will be in his favor, with o prancing runners wildly eyeing the' station immediately ahead of them to bother him. His only worry will rest' with the ability of Chief of Police J. Parley While to hold his delivery from the backstop position Mayor W. Mont Ferry, the lead-off hitter, la imbued with the ambition to make his batting average 1000 for the year, and in con - j sequence may be expected to land on the elusive pill. That's Not All. But wait, all the gooa things are! not yet over in the way of introductory introduc-tory feats, for who is this who wnn light and graceful siep and beautiful: visage appears on the mound and! wraps her dainty fingers around the horsehide. winds up in a way calculated calcu-lated to restore sight to the blind and zips the ball over the home station? Sure, it's Gertio Hoffman, and betsj are being freely offered at any old i odds thai Mayor Ferry doesn't even get to see tho ball, either from the excess speed imparted to it or for other sufficiently impelling reasons. Celebrity follows celebrity in this event- filled chronicle, for on the scene will also be Fred Fulton, the tall Mm-nesotan, Mm-nesotan, wiio Is even now planning dire things against Jess Willard on Jill 4 Just what part Fred will take in the big whoop-tee-do is not defi- nitely known, but he may attempt to deliver a knockout on the baseball merely in the way of keeping his eye in. After all the fuss is over "Red" Kil- ' - lefer la slated to begin twisting hisi Isplkea in Jocko Tennant's smooth bat - I 'tor's box preparatory to an attempt to j garner for himself a new silk shirt by j bouncing one off Keit h - O'Brien's new i Sign in left Hold. If the Angels thrive in heaven the Bees hopo to make tJie confines of the park look like the I kaiser's last resting place. A Big Fce-rade. Prior to the activities in the park' I itself a big pee-rade will ontwine itself about Main street, starting from the Hotel Utah. Tho teams, officials and some fans will be on display during I the march The band will COmmSnCt I tooting at 2 30 to enliven things while! ithe teams practice. Tho gamo proper will si art as promptly as possible at 3: 30 Summer 'sunshine is promisod by his majesty, Ithe weather dispenser, and no trouble is expocted with old Jupe Pluvius. |