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Show lowed them to win out by, a close margin. Tho local team finished tho season iu an excellent financial condition The "boy's pluycd, 'the entire, season, paid expenses, furnished uniforms, railroad fare, , etc., : establishing the record of being the Ural 'baseball-team 'baseball-team in Ogden to" finish the weapon out of debt. The' credit for thlx condition should so to -Mr, W. E. Sanderson, manager; Angus - Krhnody, " president, - and Frank Olmlln, enptaiu. These rnen labored during, Ihc, summer and fall' for tho 'boat Interests of baseball in this city, and shoild bo given the praldo that theybnvo po Justly earned earn-ed for themselves. , The success of the team was duo to the business like management of thepe men, together with tho enthusiastic enthu-siastic support of the fans of thin city, and the generous contributions cf the merchants who made baseball possible for 1910. There will undoubtedly be another anoth-er baseball league for Utah in 1911, and it is safe to predict that Ogden will be represented by a titrong nine. Murray la also expected to hold a place in tho schedule, but the situation sit-uation in Salt Lake Is confused. It Is said among baseball men that the secret of the poor showing and general dissatisfaction among tho players of tho Salt Iike team was duo to the poor support given them by ' the niorchnuts and fans of that city. It is nssertod that the merchants mer-chants refused thid year to support a league in which negroes were to play, and that the Salt Lake team was backed by but one man. who stood the brunt of the loss of his losing los-ing team. It is predicted that next year will see another team in the schedule, and that the Occidentals will not participate. partici-pate. Park City will perhaps be th'i i-ubstltute for tho negro team, for it is known that a team from that city is anxious to enter the league. The score of Monday's game: R. II. E. Ogden 4 S 2 Salt Lake 3 7 2 batteries Murphy and Snooks; Lannan and Settle. Time, 1:20. OGDEN WINS LAST 6.':BE Opden's baseball team won the final fi-nal game of the season yesterday afternoon from Salt Lake, finishing with tho score of 4 to 3. The game 1 was a hard hitting affair, with the home boys getting the better of the f lugging because of their ability to bunch their hits for extra bases wben runs were needed. The game v. as exceptionally clean throughout. Few misplays were recorded re-corded against the players, and they j did not figure materially in the result. re-sult. The feature of tho game was the heavy hitting of Catcher Settle of the Salt Like team. In four times fit bat this man secured two doubles and a single, making the three runs tt the visitors possible. A great holiday crowd attended the game, and despite the fact that the season's laurels for this league had already been won and lost, the interest inter-est in the outcome of the contest was keen. The rivalry long exlstant between be-tween Ogden and Salt Like was evident evi-dent throuchout the afternoon, and nddeil much to the Interest of the game. The final score pleased the crowd mightily, and the final standing stand-ing of the two clubs. Salt Lake occupying occu-pying (be bottom rung, just below Ogden, helped to console the baseball base-ball fans for the loss of the pennant. pen-nant. The end of tho season of play leaves the Murray nine the pennant. T.e game higher than the Occlden-, Occlden-, lals of Salt Lake; Ogden third and I Salt Lake fourth and last Murruy's defeat yesterday reduced I their percentage considerably, but al- |