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Show ATHLETICS ON THE SQUARE. A Splendid Programme of Sports Arranged for Next Friday-Afternoon. Friday-Afternoon. -Everything is -arranged for the interesting inter-esting novelty foot race and base ball game to take place on Washington Square next Friday afternoon, the 13th inst. All amateur runners of Utah will be allowed to start in the 303-yard race, and a good many'lively sprit runners have entered. Mr. C. W. Chappell, the promoter of the exciting race, has assurance of a large attendance and several runners from adjacent ad-jacent towns. The Ogden base ball team will attend and meet a picked Salt Lake nine in a close game, as it is difficult to state which club is the better of the two. The winner of the novelty race will accommodate ac-commodate any runner from outside the Territory in a 100-yard dash, so that no foot racer present on Friday need be disappointed, dis-appointed, unless it be in being left. Betting has commenced, and a lively time and some fine exhibitions on foot are anticipated. |