The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-25
GOSSIP OF THE
VARIOUS SPORTS
Baseball Outlook For Next
Season Is Bright.
CYCLING OVER FOR THE YEAR
SOME SIDE REMARKS ON THE
FIGHTING GAME.

The last league baseball game of the
season is scheduled for this afternoon
at Walkers field.
There is no argument or excuse that
can be offered for the position in which
Salt Lake closes the season., but this is
no fault whatever of the present
owners of the franchise. These men
put up their money, knowing that it
would be a dead loss for no other rea-
son than to keep Salt Lake in the
league, They did DOT want to see this
town funk" and came forward royalty
and have done their duty toward the
local fans. The team was in last place
and hopelessly beaten when they took
the franchise, butNlike true sportsmen
they have put up tfeir good money
without a grumble. Next year they
I hope to do better and are ready 10 put
up more money 70 give tie fans better
ball than they have had this year. They
| viii do this for no other reason than
loyalty to baseball. and hope for no
| other returns except the pennant at
the end Of 1905. When one stops to
! consider what the owners of the fran
/ elise have and are doing for the game
/ in Salt Lake it is no more than right
! that the fans should attend today's
/ game and show their appreciation of
! the efforts of the men who now own
/ the franchise, The games played so far
I this week between Salt Lake and Butte
! have been we'll worth going to see. No
| better ball has been played this year.
!
| Last Friday night the bicycle racing
/ season for the year of 1904 came to a
! close and il can be tTuthfully said that
+ it was one of the most successful ever
/ given at the track. The attendance
/ has kept up better and the class of
-
i any other season. A great amount of
/ the credit is due to Manager Harry ",
/ Heagren, who has worked increasingly
/ for the interest of the game. Salt Lake
/ has become the recognized cycling CEN
I ter of America and has had more rae
! ing and more successful racing in the
I past six years than any other city in
the country. The people here are edu-
\ Gated up 10 the sport and know a good
race when they see one. They have
J been given the best sport in this line
/ seen anywhere and they appreciate it.
/ Some persons say that cycle racing
! can not live long in any town but Salt
Lake has shown this is not true. When
I given q season of poor racing. the pub
! he come back again the next year as
] strong as ever and all the game needs
/ is some one at the head of it who un-
derstands his business. 1t is 10 be
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! care of next year as it has this and
il it is the game should continue to
draw packed houses
To a man up a tree it looks very
much as if the New York National
/ league team Is afraid to play the win
ner Of the American league pennant
for the worlds championship. The
New York team has been diSpOsing of
/ "a a in asst lie On
there will be but a shell of the team
left that won the championship when
the season closes. This is done to
dodge the issue with the American
league McCraw and his associates
remember the beating the American
league gave the National last year and
are afraid they Will repeat the dose
this season. TIE defeat of thee New
\ York team would mean the loss of pat
ronage to the National league in
Gotham next year in favor of tbs
J American just as has been the case in
4 Boston and Philadelphia. For this
reason the National is refusing 10 meet
the American and for the same reason
Ban johnson is trying to force 1e Sc
ries Of games.
+. All tie dope published about Ralph
W. Rose being anxious 10 meet JEFF
fries seems TO have been of the false
4 brand. Here is what Rose has 10 say
Il on the subject:
"A letter purporting to have beer
written by me TO a friend in Chicago
in which / stated that l was willins
Il to meet Jeffries, has been misquoted
II this letter / am quoted as sayins
that I could knock out Jeffries anC
n thatI expected 20 enter the prize rims
/ as soon as I finished my college course
I wish to say that l never made an.
such statement or wrote such a letter
nor have / ever thought Of engaging il
prize fighting This article has dom
me a great deal of injustice and placed
J me in a false light before my friends.
So Jimmie Britt has at last Signifiet
his willingness to meet Joe Cans. Man.
will not believe he is serious, however
until he steps in the ring with IL
colored man. If there is one fighter il
the world whom Britt is afraid Of 1t l
this same Joe Cans.
TAKE A LOOK
Il. At Derge's framed pictures.
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