The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-10

1t seems to be certain that horse racing
as sport is on its last legs and all efforts
OF well meaning horsemen to keep it GO
ing are Of no avail While it is the law
that is putting a stop to the running meet
ings on account Of the betting in connec-
ton with the sport. il is also true that
lack OF interest by the public is responsible
Tor the downfall Of the harness game.
Last week the dispa tcHes announced that
the Readviiie track would be sold at auc-
ton at once as the effort made to sell
$4,000 in bonds to keep the track going
had failed Resdvilie IS probably the CEN
ter of harness racing in the world and
has been so recognized for some time tt
IS the very fountain head of harness rae
ing, forced to close out of business for
lack of interest The horsemen made a
gallant fight to keep the plant going. and
now that they have given up. it looks had
Tor interest in the sport, and the few other
tracks Of the country which have been
able to hang on will probably one by one
drop down and out
Hyland-McFar Fight.
on next Friday night Fighting Dick
Hyland and Packey Mcfarland arc sched-
uled TO meet at Los Angeles. Whenever
these two men meet that should be "A good
fight, but under the conditions of the
match, the fight is bound to be more or
less of a Joke. The men box ten rounds
with big gloves and no decision. n the
fight IS on par with the most of the af-
fairs pulled off by the McCarey club. one
may expect to see both men on their feet
at the end Of the contest There will be
no decision given and both men will be out
with the statement the mkt day that if
the fight had gone another round I would
have knocked him out Should the fight
end this way. as practically all of those
ten-round Los Angeles affairs do. neither
mans reputation will have suffered anv
but their pOcketbooks Will be somewhat
enlarged at the expense Of the sucker pub
lie. real fight between this pair would
be interesting.
Fights in We OIden Times.
The following from the Kansas City
Times gives some data of how the fight
game was conducted thirty-nne years
ago in the Suuflower states
May y. 1S70--Prize Fight. It Comes OFF
Today.-Ou the 2ist of last February "a
prize fight came off at q distance of three
miles from this city. IN Kansas, near Gil
lis bridge. Today it is proposed that Tom
Mcguire of New Orleans and Bill Dough-
erty of Denver shall try their muscles at
some point in Kansas only known 10 th9
fighting parties. and maybe not 10 them.
but their seconds. Jim King. we are told,
is to have nothing TO do with the fight.
The party viii leave Harry Smiths Globe
saloon. southeast corner of Main street
and the Levee. this morning at 10 O'Clock
The winner of the fight will challenge
King. The day will be warm, but. th'
lovers of the manly art will no doub
have a good time
Just imagine a pair of the present da,
boxers going into battle under these cor
ditions TN those days they fought for tbs
honor and fakes were unknown. Toda,
it's the box office receipts, and the cas-
Ter they can get this the better it suit!
the fighters.
Experts on Cycling Stars,
Val Valiant, a cycling writer Of tn
east proposed a match race between
number of leading American and Euro
pean riders. He has treated salt LAX
lii M a a
en- of them on the American team.
cycling paper Of Paris comes back with
select European team and in all name
over twenty-eizht knights of the wheel
Henry Mayer imported last year as tn
champion Of Europe does not appear D.
the list of the first twenty-eight me-
named by the Par'- paper Wonde
what's the matter. mt they knoY
Mayer over there. or did salt Lake get
lemon last YEAR, Yet he easily bea
Jackie Clarke at salt Lake-but not q
NaisbuIE-
Frank MsnteII Writes.
Frank Mantell. the well known weiter
weight who for a short time held tn
welterweight championship. writes tha
he is to meet Jack Gardner OF Chicago ?
Sacramento on Jaa. H. Mantel has al
was been full Of confidence before ever
fight he has had, and this contest is n
execution, He writes that Gardner is
pretty big fellow. much heavier than him
self. but that ne will be able to bring hir
down a pound or two He saws: I wi
win BY the knockout route before tn
twenty rounds are up, and tell my friend
to get down bet on IT, Mantell is We
known locally. having stopped off at Sci
Lake on several occasions
A baseball fan propounded the follow
ing query to the writer during a fannin
hee this week: Why should 1909 be bar
ner baseball year, Give It up. was IN
answer. Because it has two mines in !