The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-24

Another week has just passed and
the baseball situation in this part oe
the country is not entirely settled 20
the satisfaction Of President Lucas and
John MeCloskey. Lucas and McCIo7-
key came down from Spokane and
Butte this week and report everything
bright up there, but found a hitch in
Ogden, which they think. however, can
be settled satisfactorily. In the mean
time Boise City has broken Ia as u
claimant for a franchise and reports
from up there would indicate that the
Idaho town meant business. This may
mean that ogden and Boise City viii
be rivals for the fourth franchise in
the league, but it appears that the first
town to get 10 its forfeit money VIII
be the one 10 get the plum. Hers
in salt Lake the directors of the lo2al
club are lying back doing nothing u1-
til after the fourth city is selected
when. according to McClOskey, all viii
be clear sailing.
George Tebeau is the master Of The
baseball situation in Denver as far
as the franchise question is concerned.
but if the articles published in the
Denver papers can be taken for what
I.
stormy season ahead of him. Tebeau
forced Packard TO sell out the Den
yer franchise at figures named BY
Tebeau, but III turning the trick he I'D
not reckon on the support of the Dem
yer press. OF the four daily papers
published there, but one comes out in
favor of Tebeau controlling baseball
in Denver. and the other three are
busy handing Foxy" George some
hard roasts that VIII not help the at
tendance this season. Tebeau has
promised Denver the best kind Of bail
next year, but these papers point back
to his record as a league disOrganlzer
and intimate that Tebeau is using Dem
yer as a farming place for his other
eastern teams. From q disinterested
point Of view It looks very plainly that
it is a case Of Tebeau getting out and
winning the support Of the Denver
press or getting out of baseball He
may think he car fight three Of tie
four papers in Denver. but he viii find
out his mistake when the season opens.
what is the ideal game?" says Tom
LOTUS. "A smuggling contest or q small
score AFFAIR." The small score affair
by long odds. but a peculiar kind Of
small score battle.
They say people like to see plenty
of batting. They do, but they do not
like TO see mere clumsy smuggling and a
lot of errors. What the people really
love, and what is, in my opinion, the
hest possible game, is a to 1 battle
nine innings or more, with no strike
outs TO speak OF. Give me a game
where hit after hit is made, but grand
fielding chops or the runners; a game
where five or six men are stopped on
lightning double plays: where the out
g.
plate on long throws; where there is
batting, base running. somebody whirl-
ing around the cushions all the time.
and also somebody getting caught just
as ne thinks he has the home plate GER
titled
I'D rather see a . to L game like that
than a dozen pitchers battles with a
lot Of strikeouts ana q few feeble pop
ups and easy grOunders. I'd rather see
q 2 to SCRAP of the right kind than a
Il to 16 tussle with eight errors on p
side and six pitchers getting trimmed.
And in my opinion most ball cranks
think the same way. / saw a game
once, 0 10 o. twelve innings, and there
were ten hits on enc side and seven
on the other: there were five double
plays and four men were stopped slid
ing home. The Catchers got half
dozen runners trying to sneak third
base. Outsiders were getting EN-
down by the fence; inaeiders were
stopping liners with one hand, and
catcbers We're racing back to the stand
for the high fouls Wouldn't you rath-
er have seen that game than q slug
ging bee? Well, I wonder,"
Besides other things. Young Corbett is
2 bit Of a prophet. When he fought Ter
~ -McGOvern at Hartford there was
dispute between the Denver candidate
and Sam Harris as TO which of the boys
should enter the ring first.
you go first" said Harris. '.Aiecfov-
ern is the champion and ought to have
MS way"
'.AH right replied Corbett. ..Youm
have the champion going in, but you
wont have MIN coming OUT
And so it happened.
Champion James Jeffries was ordered
Out of a hotel at Springfield, Mass. one
day last week where ne was stopping
during his eastern tour President Keii-
her Of the BarteEders' union lodged a
protest against Jeffries remaining there
on the ground that & is non-union
hotel. As result Of this protest, the
champion was ordered 60 pack 40 his
luggage and moYe, which he did without
delay Jeffries is q member of the Boiler
makers union. The hotel IS known as
a non-union house. and when it was
learned that Jeffrles was union man
The proprietor asked him 20 leave
Jeffrfes alsosencountere the Massac hu-
sets anti-boxing law. Chief of Police
stebbins ordering his three-round exhibi-
ton with Joe Kennedy TO stop at two
rounds.
Three rounds savors Of public spar
ring exhibition. was Chief Stebbins
cheerful explanation
John J. Ryan. the "get-rieh-quick'' man
who was ruled off the running tracks
some time ago because OF charges of
shady transactions. has been restored 20
favor. He MAY nov race just as he did
previously and make BOOKS where he
plessss. The excuse FOR his reinstatement
was that he had been punished suffi-
GENTLY. He is now preparing 70 break