Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-09
SPortips Notes.

There has certainly been enough bl.
| cycle racing this week to suit the
wheeling cranks
There Ia q vast difference between O
| pro and a prof-sometlmes in IS and
sense.
So far nothing has come OF Baby
| GibsOn's challenge TO ride Frank Hof.
man another 20 mile match mator paced
race. Better get together before It is
too late
John L. Is going on the stage again
He says he has stunt that will make
Corbett sick Not to mention others.
The cyclists are stll busy smashing
worlds records. The trust needs the
money, and the advertising.
After all everybody Ia glad the Root
Gardner fight was postponed until the
18th. The men will have more time to
prepare and the go will be all the bet >
ter There Will be Just as many people
here too, and II will be patronlzed as
we'll had II taken place on the l4th or
18th.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger de-
votes a column and half 10 a solemn
announcement that the warning fac
lions In baseball are inJuring the game,
What, SO yoon?
Although Iver Lawson OF the Cleve-
land Cycling team IL improving every
day. II Is certain he Is not at his best
On three different occasions he has been
the contender for first honors, and is
third In the championship score.
II they hurry up, that two club league
might be fully organized so that
schedule of games to be played at Salt
Lake and Ogden could be pulled off be-
fore the close OF the season Of 1903.
The surprise Of the circuit to date is
the rejuvination OF owen s. Klmble,
the dark skinned rider from Louisville,
who Is second In the championship
score, and who has been a hard PROPOSE
ton for Frank Kramer. "Od Kahn
tuck" has been racing for seven years,
yet he Is travelling faster this season
than ever before, and the man who de-
feats him for the championship will
have to ride very fast Klmble has been
q member Of the Tribune cycling team
for Ave years.
Those who take In the wrestling
match between Eugene Thompson and
G. &, Mclaughlin on the night of the
18th at the Salt Palace, will see an ex-
hbltion Of strength seldom witnessed
In these parts. These strong men have
got II in for one another In a friendly
way and. iguratively speaking, they
will make the fur fly thick and fast
when they come together on the mat
Thompson says he will win; McLaugh-
lin says he won't so there you are.
Now that Bennle Munroe OF the
Cleveland team has been furnished with
nine horse power motor capable OF
travelling mile in 1910, he may be ex-
pected TO give a better account Of him
self than could be expected during the
past two months when he was follow
ing motor tandems Of four horse power.
His new pacing machine, which has
been dubbed the Red Devil" makes a
noise not unlike the exhaust OF a pow
erful locomotive. Itst'She noisiest ma
chine In use on the bicycle tracks, but
TO use muller would seriously retard
Its progress. Mufflers reduce the speed
OF tandem from five to ten seconds In
q mile.
Wonder what s'mattcr with the new
city league" these days? The amateur
ball tossers started out with a bright
future before them but II seems they
became tired Of the business before II
had got fairly started Last Sunday
two OF the teams failed to show up TO
play Off the games billed. That's very
good way to kill interest in the game
and break up the league But then the
fans won't weep much II Buck Weaver
gets his two club league agoin'.
1t was reported on good authority
that George Dixon intends 10 retire
from the ring within the next six
Dixon Is in England, having
gone there ah>ut two weeks ago. He
went to the other side with hacker in
search Of matches with any Of the for
eign or American featherweights who
are now in Europe. on his
return, which Il is expected will
be the latter part OF September. he
will go to Cleveland and settle in that
city. The Black Bass Athletic club, an
Of Cleveland has engaged
the former featherweight champion as
It's boxing instructor, succeeding Harry
Lemon, who has been engaged as Joe
CANS sparring partner. Dixon
has been doing some fighting