The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
WITH THE FANS.
Bankers and Officials Play Tomorrow
at Walkers Field.


Tomorrow afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
at Walkers field, the city and county
officials and the bankers will cross bats
for supremacy. The fact that it is
holiday ought to insure a big crowd,
and doubtless will. Then, again. the
proceeds are to go to the volunteer
monument fund, and it also promises
TO be a good game of baseball Figur-
ing all things up, the management is
~ the opinion that one of the biggest
crowds of the early season will be out,
and it looks pretty much like their con-
lectures viii just about fit the situ-
alton.
In the practice games that the two
mines have played this season, consid-
cradle ability to play fast ball has been
manifested by both of them, and the
fans that go TO the game need have no
fear that they are going to be disap-
pointed. Nels Margetts, who is one of
the swiftest players on any of the local
mines, is captain of the bankers, while
Ray Naylor tells the officials how it
should be done. Both of the captains
played on the Utah volunteer nine in
the Philippines, and helped to win the
championship of the army for Utah.
But now they are to meet on opposing
aggregations, and the test will be to
tributed the most to the success of the
battery team in the Philippines.
The two mines viii lineup as followsS
Bankers. City and County.
Margetts, Nels..... c.. Margetts, Bert
Holt P ...... 49,. .GrifhthS
Groesbeck .........1B.... .......Naylor
Beebe .............2B.. ........ IVerSon
Badger ..........3B.. .Weggeland
Young ............S. S.. 49,. Swenson
McEwan, Wi. F........ MARKS
Wells ............C- F.. go. Romney
Spencer ..........R. F.. ........Jeffs
Subs. Subs.
CHlIIn $50. ''''''''''.. ''.'.'': IhdICher
McEwan, Hmm. Nicholson
The University nine, which started
out conscientiously enough to revolu-
tionize amateur athletics, has now de-
cided that their experiment was all
right in theory but that in a practical
application 1t was not a bowling sue
cess. II was their effort to bring about
! purity in school sport that kept them
out Of the school league They then
thought that they could get games with
other mines, and hold to the scholarship
requirement that they had established,
but after struggling for nearly a
month. they have abandoned the fight
and their team has gone to its rest.
1t may be reSuScitated on special oc-
casiops, but for the present any kind
of baseball aggregation al the uni
versity is practically nil. It is ex-
pected that before the season is over
!, it will be reorganized to play the Brig
ham Young academy on the joint field
day in June, but no other games have
been arranged and the prospects are
that none other will be. The varsity
boys have come to the conclusion that
they ought to have entered the school
league in the first place, but it is too
late now, and in preference to playing
ball with themselves all the time with
out any prospects Of d game, the nine
has been abandoned.
g o 9
The Brokers and the CURRIERS' are still
talking about their proposed game be-
tween the intervals that they are deal
ing in stocks, and from the interest
manifested it will be one of the big
games of the season. It is proposed that
the Eleachers be Incorporated and that
STOCK be sold for seats, so great do
they figure that the crowd will be. The
free key of beer that they propose to
have on tap viii be one of the star
features of the game, and will be. next
to Dusty Rhodes, of course. the big
gest drawing card. Dusty" is going
ly will do a cakewalk to the beer
stand. He will be caricatured in the
papers. and the whole thing will be
most joyous event.
The exhibition games that the Short
Line and the Rio GrandeS were to play
We're called off for various reasons. and
1t is not likely that the fans will have a
chance to see them on the diamond be-
fore the opening Of the Utah-Idaho
league season at the end of the month.
The ogden people have arranged, how
ever, for d game with the Rio Grande
nine to take place in the Junction city
this afternoon. if the weather permits
Jack Meinicke and his brave band of
sluggers will tarry in Zion long enough
TO see whether or not it is going to
rain, and if not they will sally forth
on the noon train to the city on the
north. A large number of the fans will
accompany them and the contest will
doubtless be interesting enough for any
of EN-. All the long weeks Of tho early
season, the fans have been anxiously
looking for an exhibition game between
some of the big league mines. 1t will
serve to give them some idea of the
respective strength of the mines. and
they will be able to form some conjec-
ture as to the final result of the league
games. Every fan in town is pra3ing
that the sun will shine in all its wonted
glory today.
8 8 g
The brokers had a good practice in
front of the exchange yesterday after
noon, nearly breaking several costly
windows in doing so. Jimmie Fulton
Joe Sheets and others of the dealers in
stocks labored for some time on the
sidewalk of Second South with now
ball, throwing il over the heads of ne
deatrians. utterly regardless of any,
bOdy's rights. To them the most i'm
portant thing in the world is to be pre-
pared to meet the CURRIERS' when the
great game comes off. The nractice