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Show jff SP?KT CUAT,TEr IV By AL VARDEN J With a Rock and a Stone pitching for tho Smithfleld club of the North ern Utah league, the Summits should be mighty hard to crack. Four major league clubs are now dickering for the services of Spencer Adams, former .ig.lcn High school athletic -tar, now holding down the second base poaltlon for the Seattle club of tho Pacific Coast league. Brooklyn nnd Chicago, ln the National! league, and Washington and Boston,! ln the American loop, have asked fori options on the l-ayton athlete. Coast sports scribes predict a wonder won-der future for Adams. Although he has been In a batting slump for the past two weeks hfs fielding will class' with the best of the keystoners ln tho Pacific Coast league Fishing yarns have already started to arrive at thc sports sanctum. Some of 'em are new, some old and somo mighty, mighty old But nevertheless they are fish yarns. Percy Chavez, handsome "Hal" as. he is known to his followers, will ca- j vort around short for the Gunners, today. Hal Is a sonaatlon and should set the Northern Ptah league afire. OhlrpS Duffy Lewis, skipper of the; Salt Lnko club of the Pacific Coast league. IMKREN VS. MYERS SpuK' Myers will no doubt receive plenty of ompetitlon when he mixes with Franklc Farren at Focatello Jul" 4. Farren la the Pacific CoiLSt light-, yc eight champion and a stuble mate, of Ja i Dempaey'e Myers is the class of the boys in this section and a vic-J tory ov.-r Ferren will start him on his, road to fame., Clarence Brooks. former Ogden : catcher, continues to lead the Texas; kague with the willoyv. Brooke man-, ages to neragn from one to three, hits per game. I y Morgan With thc Beaumont club; In thc Texas league has been getting, bumped quite frequently of late Mor-'t gan was with tho Brigham club of the Northern Utah league last season and recently chucked a no-run no-hlt contest con-test In tho Texas loop Since that time however, Cy has been off color. KENNA LOOSE Eddlo Kenna. star reccBer of tho Ogden club of 19 21 with the Edmonton club in the Western Canadian league Is eager to catch on with one of tho clubs of thc present loop. With the Canadian loop threatened with destruction de-struction due to financial conditions flocks of ball players will be out of obs. Johnny Myers is out of the game with a sprained ankle . Myers Is with the Brlgham club. Jack Dempssy Is willing to meet cm all. That Is the statement of Jack Kearns. his manager. Big Jess Wlllard is out with a challenge to the champion. Kearns la answer announces an-nounces that Jess would make a much hotter showing now against Dempsey than ho did three years ago at Toledo. Kearns knows the value of good ad-y ad-y ertislng. POSTPONE MATCH The proposed Dempsey 'arpent ler second melee has been placed On the Idle shelf for a few months. It Isn't quite proper time to spring tho dato and c ther details for this international scrap, which will ln all probability bo held In London or Paris. In the meantime the mit followers In all parts of the country arc resting yvlth a view of learning more details concerning the proposed bout between ez-champfen WUlaxd ind the present champion, Dempsey. This tilt, Skipper Kearns announces, will be hold In Sep-( tember With the major league clubs battling for honors fans of Ogden arc evenly Divided as to the winner of the American Ameri-can league bunting when October looms around. Many favor the Browns whllo others expect the Ruth-Ian Ruth-Ian club, known as the Yankees, to repeaU |