The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-07

came necessary for the Railway man.
/ ager to produce the players in person
before his story was fully believed.
( ClippingeI has been very reticent about
his plans all spring and this led to the
belief among the followers of the sport
that his intention was to gull the pub
lie with an inferior team. He con-
tinued TO keep his own counsel and
/ surprised even those who knew some
thing was doing. There was another
/ ceived from the Park that Meinecke' S
4 Miners would be strictly a paid aggre-
cation.
The intention of the Park City club
when it was first organized was to Sc
/ cure players who would work during
the week and play ball on sunday. BY
this system a team could be carried
through the season with little expense
and at the same time one secured that
should put up a good article of ball.
However, the action of the Salt Lake
teams in hiring the best men they
could secure seemed to have created a
doubt in the minds of the Parks as to
their ability to cope with the other
league teams and they decided to put
in a club on equal footing with the best
I IN the league. A meeting was held for
this purpose, and Manager Meinecke
! was instructed to go ahead and sign up
! the best men Obtainab BILE regardless of
expense. The mining town will not
stand for losing club and when they
go after anything they generally get
1t, which means that if there is a weak
spot in the league it will not be at Park
City.
Although the local basket bail sea
son was officially declared dead two
weeks ago. the followers of the sDort
refuse to let it stay dead and revived
1t again the past week with three of
the best games Of the season. PERHAPS
the game that attracted the greatest
attention and upon which more inter
est was, eentered was the contest be-
tween the Danvilie Y. NJ. G. A team
and the L. D. s. of this city. The for
meT aggregation arrived in the city
about month ago and soon gained a
reputation for themselves by their
practice in the local gymna Sums. Sew
eral attempts were made TO arrange a
contest between them and one of the
local teams. but in each case the eff
forts proved of no avail until finally
the game of last Friday was arranged.
Nearly everyone who has watched
the visitors practice and the local team
play predicted an easy victory for the
former. In fact, the players of the l.
ID. ). admitted before the contest that
they stood no show whatever, but were
Wiling TO try the visitors in order to
give the local basket ball fraternity
chance to see what they could do. The
game proved to be one of the best ever
seen on local floor, ana, much to the
surprise of everyone. the locals won
out. However, the visitors proved that
in some points they were the superiors
of anything that has been seen here
The passing of the bali when blocked
by another player is one of the most
difficult feats in basket ball, and these
men seemed to have the art down TO
perfection.
The game was also played in a large
hall, and it is doubtful if the local
deVotees of the sport will ever again
be satisfied with the game in cramped
quarters. The chance for team work
is so much better in a large field and
the roughness caused by players
punching on the balT in a smaller hall
is entirely eliminated. which greatly
improves the game from a spectators
point of view. The contest also proved
to those present that a man must be
in good physical condition TO stand
twenty minutes of continuous playing
in a large hall, and that a successful
player has to be a first-class athlete
in basket ball as we'll as other sports
Arrangements will probably be made
for another contest in the same hall