Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-23
,,ost paslists Baseball Players
And Famous Race
Horses
FITS OPINION OF SHARKEY.
s.,,, If English Ball Player WhOCon'
tio,,d Madly to Sunday
Games 10 the East

=, anita Of the fact that many SPORT
~ writer's throughout the east regard
~,r sbarkey as more or less OF d auo'
a.s rl,z.lmmons has a pretty good
D ,.,,, q, the sailor as fighter, Here
~h.t Tltz has to say about Tom
osSsrkey Is one Of the most danger
t.llows I ever fought said tltz-
lannon's. Il met him twice and FOUND
ma, I had to watch like a cat The >
nayer any way of knowing what NJ
NAV do next when he Is in a corner be,
a,n.e he doesn't know himself anu
ss. rot a waDIop that viii knock u
~,r., head of II it lands right,
"Tbo only way 10 fight Sharkey Is to
I'm him close, never let him at you
y, SlI and knock his head of wheh ne
I, coming at you. .., ,
~, ayes a man who can punch a
Aole In him to beat him, ana mat Is the
cnly way II can be done. .
"uunroe? Just you walt Sharkey
o.u' wallop Munroe alongside OF the
sw me way he did Rubin, ana there
rll be sick miner.
"Nunroe has improved since you saw
rim In Montana" was suggested.
Tizslmmons shifted and looked Tar
away. ,.,,.a,,,,,
10 beat sharkey, The Sailor 5 as hard
game as want to find. and no anna
tsar il going to have the Wallop / need
ed 10 put him away with,
There's only one thing ! hope, and
thal Munroe win have fair chance
and there won't be any Wyatt Earps
solDd, II Munroe ticks Tom ! guess
nm have to take a chance at the miner,
IA rather fight him than take a chance
with Sharkey, anyhow. Last time Tom
and fought he landed one on me just
mo way he did on Gus Rubin, and
nearly cracked my head. He's a dan
gerous fellow for he doesn't fight like
boxer. He swings so fast that he Is
tpl 10 land one any time when your
r,nt looking out for II, and the next
link you know you aye listening to
be count.
1t takes a fighter to Hex Sharkey."
A dispatch from Cincinnati says:
Vale no trouble is anticipated over the
imposed invasion of the Brooklyn
clbs territory by the New York Amer
itln league club, there is no doubt that
The case will come before the national
commission for adjustment
President Hartman Of the national
commission stated that he thought that
The matter eventually would reach
that tribunal, II the New York Ameri-
cans Insisted in playing games on sun
day at Ridgewood park and the Brook
Ign club continued its opposition to
such an arrangement, What the out
some OF the controversy would be Mr..
HERMANN, however declined TO even
guess.
President Barney Dreyfuss OF the
HItsburg club, who was present during
he discussion, yentured the opinion
hat the New York Americans would
make mistake II they took up Sunday
Dall IN the east, and that the Brooklyn
auD would likewise be guilty of a fool
AaTdy act II It upset the present ar
ahBenent and went In for Sunday
baseball az home. such n departure
would not only kin the Saturday at.
lendance,' said Mr.. Dreyfuss. but II
would hurt business during the week 50
Ina' on the whole nothing would be
gained
The people OF the east have been
uToushl up 10 oppose Sunday amuse.
mens and Sunday baseball games
eou'l not be forced upon them They
mshl encourage the cheap element,
ol' lhey certainly would keep the bet.
Wr class away fro mthe games, doing
wne spoft more harm than good In the
oUns run If | could | would not play
SUNDAY games In Pittsburg. Our sat
muay ana week day patronage is such
mat ! would not care to peopardse Il
i" having my team play Sunday games
~ nome And think those eastern
uailS would do q wise thing if thov
s sa up The idea Of playing Sunday
games az home"
~ Ike To have heard all the speecb.
W. W. marley Ebbets made at that special
n,s.,g or the Brooklyn club" re.
m ,,,,to President Dreyfuss That's
',"y ID c1s' for the national commits
',O'. " decide. Ban Johnson told me
Y. "' IauBhery club that the New
t,VYN americans would play Sunday
~, TL.' IN me east but he did not say that
", ,oV % '''m would leave New York to do
=, me appeal Of the BROOKLYN club win
Sbo M WE .,' most sensational document that
,b "s l'' reached the commission. The
p tG,,Iy Oh legal action credited TO the
o o,tln'Sii club, Is silly, No court would
ri, rIJuin al! the clubs IN Christendom from
paving ON the square next TO Wash.
,"1Ioh PARK II the ground rent were
bau he territorial right question
., pue mat has no standing i'm law
n ,'u 'dh only be determined by the SUI
mieVle court Of baseball. II is hardly
Iec,., UAI m the face OF an adverse
y ,' ,,u ihe American league would go
p n WAT Tor fourteen Sunday dates in
''0o1ly0's back yard,
dE.TS'r see an Eugllshman play base-
. asks Herman Long. 81 don't
, a,uu Englishmon who have been
~, ttus ,5 young and trained to the game,
A., nv o illarry smith, the PIttsburg catcher,
ro, 1,"%W, VINO used to catch for De-
rom" oat Wild and untamed English
h.n WIN the checked tweeds still on
" "vn, packs, saw one of them per-
maj WI, ole DAY and the jar nearly loos-
' o,,, my cartIlages
,,rL IVY Fellow was brought out to the
'ns one morning by newspaper man.
,ro he got deeply Interested in the
' 'is' He was a noted batsman
no, y, AT crIcket--and ne enjoyed see.
Ven ,"e Iong hits and the fancy catches
,ro e', we lried to inyelgle him into tho
,v aD,.Sc, and he was dead willing 10 be
nnaelsled AT first, he could do Moth
v, Except knock little punk taps, and
,"g VI, ne ran down to first he droppel
" ", KY me- that he trlpped over them.
4, ~ I'VE, veg a little basket in front OF him
n, .a,G ,6h the his, and then he ran better,
iS,' s.lh ne couldn't hit the ball Fin.
=. no put hts full force into tho bat,
VI straight ball and drove il into
as ueep left field The ball rolled un.
IA some tImhers temporarily tossed
'Ie oy the groundkeeper and couldn't
round Round the bases ran tho