Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-09
Gridiron BOOSTERS Manifest Signs
Of Awakening from Lethargy
sIDEwALK.RIDING PROBLEM
oaden'- pitcher with a homHneo
baseball Cbat Winnings Of hldeH
on salt Palace Track.

with the football season only month
away. there hiss been little done toward
getting iocal teams together, probably
because the schools are not yet olFh'
Tho y. 81. g. A. promises 90 nave
strong team this season. but as yct "
IL al on pnpor Tbs unisgrF.ty ana
the tush school have material f0f good
.iuyrns and will enter the lIHtH Cor tho
rrldlrou tsnta.tr The local boys Will
have "a formidable rival in th1 ogden
tenn. W. b. u.gkwlth. tho man who
bitches arlIust the short Lines to-day
and tomorrow. De- WORKING hard ana hna
already selected dozen brawny plg-
skin chaaeu Tor inc pruroa'l el''rn'
ue,kWith la nn old-timc football pihyor
and belonged q, the noted Grinnch'
phillip. Exeter and NurthWcgttfn elun.'
Maraear ARtun uf the Salt Lake y. ~
e. a. team ls already in corr. l'hH.
enco with tho embryonic ogden cruz
with tho ulu and object iu Wow m pc
curing "a game DURING Cuuferuuce week,
,ithrr on October 6th ur IN. The mon
picked out thus Car by il.ckwlth fpr lho
Grdan team. with their fuapNCuFr
wclghta, ares seiu.rE' 49, liAi,,ipil'
100. Mrtirtrur. 100, hcuudcr, 1875 Ml
'N'' mum
peekNiih. who ~ stirring up things
athletic iu ogden. o. an cNscullrHc man,
q lover 0f sport and WlthM an nll luuhl
good fellow puring the recent tour or
tho ogden baseball team a. Montana,
iierkNithn Identity was established.
a gentleman at nuttr recognized me
young player and soon % became uolhf'
around that ogden had "a player whose
name was Hnut over the wires SON
time aEo un the hero % % romance w
chicago hlFh HE, he being, 90 tun syiis
tiefnan nvorrrd. no other than uia
young man who made runaway matf
with tho daughter OF Robert j, Lincoln,
tho chicago millionaire, inc nero n'
this story subsequently aoparutcd from
his wife an Indications point 20 me
fact that tho ogden baseball player la
the man ono thing ia certain, he has
plenty u pocket money
Tho Short LINES aud rio orando
teams have at last come %
the conclusion that one spnl
nine IL better than two mediocre organ
irationa They have accordingly cone
Holldatcd aud organized a now team.
The aggregation of bali players, how
ever, ntlii goes under tho name % the
Short Lines. When IA comes fifhi
down 90 II, the H. q. VS. never ala
have q bona nde team of railroad ems
pioyeca and the present. or to be more
correct. now dafnnct ITO Grandoa were
not even possessed Of uniforms
At the tail end of the season the local
fans are ALREADY beginning 10 discuss
next years baseball II those 10
authority arc ~ tho same mind then
as now. Salt Lake will have Htnr
baseball team ,. n. Walker Jr, who
owns the Walker bah park, proposes
TO organize stock company early next
spring with the aim and object u pros
vlding a professional nine. composed ~
FIRST class players which viii place Snlt
Lake upon q pinnacle among the fans,
The new Aggregation will be essentially
the Salt Lake team ana viii not repro.
sent any faction, factory or railroad.
pnrudoxicnl as 10 may sound, the salt
Lake team win De- composed ~ utrnug.
cra within our gates Tho team VIII
not 30 by the ulmo of Walkers rll-
grimH' aH suspected by cynical rootor.
The ball players OF this city are atil
up IN arms against what they designate
ua the cxhofhllut psracutaEc of the
gate receipts demanded by tho pro-
prlotora uf the Walker BAH park. They
ray that % ~ impossible Co Ent amy
teams 10 play uu that diamond on n 20
prr cent gate receipt huHIH, An ordl-
nary Saturday afternoon game be-
tween, say ogden and u local team.
entrance money. $40 uf that sum goes
60 the rental which leaves $50 Tor the
winning team and so Tor tho losers.
The ogden nine figures that ID loses $50
every time Il comes down TO thi1 city.
ON the face ~ nnnir Il looks us
though the Junction city hnys are
SImon pure spurtsi but tho secret is
that tho Salt Lake huys insist ON IA
game al home before they will Journey
10 ogden 10 play nt tho prlyla. Park
a. ogden generally Furnished a A,5 or
5000 rate tho ufbnnH gun uf0rd o., lose
n twenty on thp propaHltIou. A strnnr
snort IN bDlnr mnds 10 Undue, Mir
Walker ,o-ra,it,.-. no rspt,i a., o., ,,sr
cont bg,s
pieyers out lp forre Nom IA tbIs XIV
nud An ogd,n al NOM. , g,,,,'... r,
Of hot slngi,s mas begn an, order tbI'
week. with the elimination on tho pca-
erNl court or IhurrlnN, ON which uo.
'hHluh FRANK ROBERTS won the tuurnl'
ment IN the maj from liHN, Ellis iiHh.
up' IN q hlEhtN uur-Hldol game The
tournament ln ogden o. somewhat Doe
NINA tho toheiuIe aH H1me contestants
nave ny agreement postponed their
games this being permitted nH long us
u does not Interfere with the progrUsH
of the tournament. HhU entries iu the
double tournament closed ON Thursday.
The entries are frluk Roberts and carl
Roberts, w, IS. Conrad amt Edwin