Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-31

day following when the championship
Of the country was played Oft one
game during the American league Htrles
was particularly noteworthy The Ath-
letics OF Philadelphia while playing
Boston on the Boston grounds, were
shut ont Tor neither hlt nor run, not
one man reaching first Young IN the
box for Boston, pitched an errorles8
game, striking ont i5 Of q baiamen
The football season closes In a not
wholly satisfactory way Yale, hay-
ing defeated Harvard and Princeton,
stands nomlnally os the Eastern cham
plon. but earlier IN the season she had
herself lost 20 West Point on the
other hand, the eleven OF the uniyer-
sIty OF Pennsylvania, which did not
meet Yale has not lost a game aud
has been scored upon only once,
through goal from field IN her con-
test with swurhmore. West Point
won her annual game with the MIDI
dies. Michigan beat Wisconsin, and,
on the Pacific coast the University
OF California lost 10 Leland stanford.
The automobile records which have
been broken since the season openCd
have been almost iunumerable The
three most notable achievements are:
w. Is. Vandorhllt's fast mile ON Florl-
da Beach IN 30 seconds, G.. A. Kes9-
ler's run from Bauitz TO Madrid 600
niles In II hours 10 minutes and
the nonstop record established by u,
r. Ia Rouche OF New York, who IN
10 DAYS, hours covered $3.50 niles
1887 better than the best earlier total
The year also saw the greatest OF the
automobile races yet held IN this
country when, on oct ~, the first
contest for the w, X Vanderbilt cup
was run over a 30e.mile course ON Long
Island. An American, George Heath.
won In hours 90 minutes and % Sec
onds, one man being killed and three
injured during the race
other records have been lowered
during the year on the track both by
men and horses Major Delmar and
Lou Dillon have each trotted Il mile
IN 20ii, Prince Albert has paced q
mile In 1904 and just as October
was going out, Dan Patch at Mem
phls. established figures which stand
as the fastest mile ever Travelled by a
horse hitched 90 a sulky finishing In
1866 I'm The intercollegiate games held
az tho University Of Pennsylvania In
June, and IN the Olympic games held
al 81. Louis In August, the event was
the exception I'm which a record was
not broken. In connection with track
sports II is to be recalled that the
Yale Harvard team defeated the OK
ford Cambridge mon at London IN
July winning six first places in nine
events.
The athletic surprises Of the year
seem to have been confined 70 golf and
tennis Coming east from California,
Miss May Sutton captured all the ten
mis- honurs IN the Atlantic and Middle
states Miss Charlotte bod OF eng
land took the golf championship away
from Miss Roma Adair, only 20 lose
n as promptly 10 Miss Pauline Mack
ey. while the American w. ]. Travis,
playing In England easily conquered
the best OF the amateurs IN that home
Of the ancient and royal game.
CROPS AND SPECULATION,
In industrial circles 1904 will be
long remembered both because OF rec
ord corn and cotton crops, and be-
cause, too, OF unusual speculative moye-
ments which have accompanied the
wheat and cotton markets. II has been
estimated that considerably more than
$500 900 900 bushels Of corn have been
harvested this year, which VIII surpass
the best previous year by something
like 100000 bushels on the other
hand the wheat fields OF the country
have not produced as well as usual, and
to this "a TO be traced the startling
speculative "hurrles' OF February, May
and August, when wheat was selling
In New York and Chicago markets az
SlOS. 1903 and sl.l7ia,
The speculation In cotton eliminated
early In February when the bulls, I'M
der the leadership OF d, j Sully, drove
UP the price to 1871 cents a pound the
highest figures known since 1873. AZ
one time Mr.. Sully was $4,000 600 ahead
of the market. but when the reaction
came, he failed absolutely. The 1904
cotton crop. with an average OF 9l.6,
shows the largest acreage ever known,
the governmental reports estimating a
crop for the season ia04-l9O5 something
more than million bales greater than
the crop Of any previous year, Upon
the official announcement OF this pre-
dlction, IN early December the activity
OF the market riyalled II not surpassed
that which had marked the trading dur
ing the sully campaign earlier In the
year, prices falling off TN the price per
pound reached eight cents, ten cents
lower than II had been in February.