The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-17
BASEBALL AND
LOCAL OUTLOOK
Prospects for a Good Season are
Brighter Than Ever.
GAME AT OGDEN TO-DAY
YESTERDAYS GAME POSTPONED
ON ACCOUNT OF WEATHER.

Now that the Utah baseball season
is fairly started and both Salt Lake
and ogden are lined up with pretty
fair teams, it really begins to look as
If the season OF 1908 would be one Of
the best in the local history Of the
sport. Three games in all have been
played, and while the games might
have been little ragged in spots, yet
on the whole il is remarkable that
these two rivals should have been able
to frame up such strong combinations
as they have on so short q. notice.
Three weeks ago baseball was prac-.
ticalIy given up in this state, but the
efforts OF a few local fans finally got
the two teams started that bid fair
to DO so much for the game in this
state.
When # is taken into consideration
that both the Ogden and Salt Lake
teams have been brought together
within two weeks II is nothing more
than remarkable that they are doing as
well as they have. Last season Buck
Weaver brought in all fOrty-three ball
players to salt Lake before he got the
Lagoon team on its feet, Salt Lake i'm
ported thirty and Logan about twenty
So far this season the total players re-
leased by both Salt Lake and Ogden
number three. 1t is true that both
teams intend to strengthen their line
ups and both have lines out for more
players but the two teams as they
stand today are very nearly equal on
playing strength, which means that
every. game played win be a hard fight
from start to finish. This is the life Of
baseball and IS as It ought to be- Should
salt Lake or Ogden secure an aggrega-
ton far too strong for the other, it
would be all of with the sport as the
fans would soon tire Of going down to
the park to see on team have a walk
over in every game.
The one noticeable feature about the
baseball situation this year IS the utter
absence Of that individual known as q
knOcker. He has had more to DO with
the killing Of baseball than all the err
rOrs ever committed on a diamond. In
the past Salt Lake has had many OF
them on the ground and every time the
local team lost q game, the knockers
would commence business Some even
went 50 far as to create discord among
the players in an effort to get even
for some fancied wrong and the result
has always been e. losing team for Salt
Lake. This year none Of this spirit
has shown up yet and it is to be hoped
that Il VIII not.
Salt Lake may not start IN and de-
feat Ogden. but the present directors
OF the team viii surely put an aggre-
cation of ball players in the city that
can hold its own with the HOLSTERS if
players to DO so. The directors of the
club deserve great praise for what they
have already accomplished and the fans
need not worry about the outcome Of
the Salt Lake team If they continue to
support the game for the rest Of the
season as they have up to date.
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The game scheduled for Walkers field
yesterday was called of On account Of
the weather The Ogden team came
down and was more than anxious to
meet the locals, but the diamond was in
such a. muddy condition that ball play
ing was out Of the question. Ogden
and Salt Lake will meet today in Og-
den for their first Sunday game Both
teams VIII appear on the field stronger
than they have at any time this season
and both are out to win.
It might not be a bad scheme TO put
Richfeld into the Utah baseball league.
Reports from that town state that
there was an attendance Of $500 fans
at a ball game last Friday. If Rich
field can keep this Tick UP and is
willing, the town viii be voted into the
league tomorrow.
It is stated by Manager Christie of
the AIaroons that Shortstop Cook of
the Fort Douglas team has been Sc
cured to play second base IN the game
at Ogden today. Cook is one Of the
best inhelders seen on the local dia-
mond this year and il is q 2 to 1 shot
that he viii make good.
Roy Hartzeu Of last years Logan team
has been farmed out by Denver to Butte,
Mont HartzeiI has been tried out on the
Grizzlies this season, but did not seem
TO exhibit the same form showed last
year when he left Logan for Denver.
Butte has captured good pitcher all
around infielder and a first-class batter
when II secured this boy
Brockhoff is still with the Butte team.
and according to all reports he is keeping
I'D his reputation as Juggler. He has
made more errors than any other man
on the team. which IS not astounding to
the fans of this state. He was probably
one Of the greatest frosts as a ball player
that ever struck the Salt Lake diamond.
Father Tom Kelly seems to be making
good this year. He is one of the regular
pitchers of the Butte team in the Pacific
National league and is winning a good
percentage of his games.