The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-02
SPORTS AND PASTIMES.
Salt Lallers ON the Colorado
Circuit.
COMING GAMES IN SALT LAKE.
Why They Were Observation-Disclosures
and Leadville Anxious to Come to
Salt Lake-SpOrting News,

Another proof of how strong base
ball feeling exists in Salt Lake, is found
in the fact of the many expressions of
condemnation andrregret with which
news of the defeats in Colorado was re
ceived here. Those persons. however,
who have so much to say concerning
the poor record made by the home
team, should confine their remarks to
the management of the affair and not
to the players. 1t was the
sheerest folly to send out any
but the very strongest nine to
play in the Colorado circuit, and who
ever was resposible.for leaving off Bar
ker, Browning, and say one or two more
Ogden men, should receive the blame
we are now informed that those players
would have gone had any effort been
made to secure them the management
should have known, too, that each of
these Colorado mines is largely made up
of professionals-men who receive sal
dtiCS tO4 DeloC Ddkl, d1Q W AO uO
nothing else; the game over there
amounts to a regular business-an in
dustry; stock companies are formed
and many of the principal people
take shares in the concern. The
Mayor of Pueblo (who is by the way q
Mayor Sharp), is president of the nine
manager, and IN the other places sub
G tar al oil onnnnatoA rr-ft l.
the local organization of the national
game.
Our boys went over fondly imagining
that in Colorado, as in Utah, they
played baseball for pastime, after they
got out of the shops, or on holidays
when they were confronted by men
whose names had for years past beer
foremost in the baseball annals of the
country, such as Hudson, Jantsen
o Brien, Harter, etc., the result may be
imagined; the only marvel is that the
Salt Lakers made any such creditable
showing as they did; the 0 to 0 game in
Leadville, and the to 2 (which ought
TO have been to but for the umpire
in Denver were contests which are sell
dom equaled in League reports.
BADLY ORGANIZED as baseball is il
this city land we hope to have more tC
say on the topic of putting it into its
ancient order) we believe that if some Of
the strength of Ogden were borrowed
Salt Lake could still give the Colorado
people hard rub. Both Denver and
Leadville are anxious to- pay us visit
and both teams have sent their open
dates here, with request that our local
management see what can be done IN
the way OF securing rates. Both mines
wish to come th s month, and
we believe the boys will relinquish nego-
tiations with other foreign teams, in or
der to recinrocate the courtesies they
received al the hands of the Colorado
players; the playing of Hudson would
be a positive luxury TO our lovers of
field sports will the managers look at
once into the question of bringing over
one or both of the teams? The offer is
the most reasonable ever made by a
foreign team, and the d & r. g. will be
ready in Gay or two to say what they
Will do concerning rates: the following
names are proposed for TIE Territorial
nine: Ridges, catcher; West, pitcher
Larson. 1 b Browning, 2b; Barlow, 3b,
and change catcher; Barker, short stop,
and change pitcher; Bess, LETT field, and
the others might be chosen from Hall
Goldng, the Watsons, Reed of Ogden,
Peck and Margetts.