Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-22
EVENTS OF NOTE IN
THE WORLD OF SPORT

The week will mark the intercollegiate
basketball climax.
Southern Utah seems to have tho bas-
ketball fever In a vlrulcnt form
In April. Gotch and Zbyszko will
wrestle In Kansas City before n $4,000
house.
The automobile show is a splendid ex-
position of Just what Salt Lake can do
starter.
The l. D. s. u did not take their con-
tcmplated revenge on the Aggies In the
basketball game Saturday
The National league baseball magnates
are wrestling with what seems to be
somo very mountainous mole hills.
Tex Rickard seems to have drawn in
his pugnaciouS horns since he has como
under the influence of Gleason and the
California cohorts.
Soccer football. which is nothing
more than the English game. has quite
a following in Salt Lake. practise
game Is to be played this afternoon at
First avenue and A streets.
Tonight Monte Attcll and Danny Web
Stor go for IS rounds at Los Angeles for
the bantamweight belt. They have met
three times at 20 rounds and the honorS
are even. --,-
The wrestling match Friday night be-
tween Yokel and lAckerman promises to
be the best OF ths, sep7op. q rAekerman Is
In the pink of form and Yokel Is train
ing as never before. A win for the Salt
Lake man means the championship for
him and many high class mat contests
for the city
It Is not probable that tho Intercolle-
glate Athletic conference will its
way clear to adopt the freshman rule
as has beon done at the university One
important reason is that ii woVld cut
down athletic teams at B. Y. u. L. d.
S u. and A c. u, to very small pro-
portions. The matter was a bono of
contention at the recent meeting.
The adoption of the four-year rule by
the Intercollegiate Athletic conference
means that the great B. Y. u. basket
ball team of 1910 Will be all shot to
pieces 1t renders ineligible next year
Capt. Christensen Chamberlain and Rose.
This will leave but ]. Christensen. Jones
Greenwood simmons and Jacobs OF tho
present team. The three men lost arc
probably the most valuable men on the
FIVE.
Cincinnati business men have offered
$4,000 to the Reds as an inducemcnt to
win the National league pennant. Tho
Pittsburg Pirates and the Chicago Cubs.
not TO mention New York. will have some
thing to say about that, Tho Ohio city
has never won a pcnnant, although away
back In the seventies, before organized
baseball. the famous Cincinnati Reds
went through a whole season with but
one defeat
Pugilists come and go but Abe Attell
seems to go on forever The little He
brew is one of the marvels of the ring.
He has been boxing for Is years and still
seems to have n little up his sleeve Wien
ever he is called upon to exert himself.
He has made fortunes. and. contrary TO
the usual disposition of his races has
dlsSipated them. In the last fve years
he has been In the ring over 20 times.
beaten the best at his weight. and Is
still supreme.
II is to be hoped that when either Bird
leg Collins or Pete Sullivan make an
other match there Will be something do
ing. In both of the late ones at Ogden
there was plenty of fantastic work
which set a number of boxing experts to
think deeply. At both OF the affairs
the prellmnaries were really the main
events. The two should not be matched
for some time in order to allow both to
acquire some very badly needed knowl-
edge and strength.
rules are going to work out is prob
lcmatlcal. The on-side kick seems to be
n general object OF attack and there Is
also an apparent disposition to modify
the forward pass. All OF the plans nd
Vanced place seven men on the scrim-
make line and also eliminate diving tack
les. The general plan. as outlined,
is for moro open play. There is no doubt
but that there will be radical changes.
brought about by public opinion which is
very strong against the present grid
iron rules because OF the many fatalities
and serious accidents of the past season.
John F Tobin is doing laudablo work.
which should be encouraged, In organ
zlng a state baseball league. 1t Is the
national sport and pre-emlnently clean.
With large following in Salt Lake. Og-
den Logan, Murray and other towns, a
strong organization should be perfected
without much trouble. But IL should be