The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-26
BETTING EX|LED
BALL PLAYERS
Manhattan Reviews Condition
of National Game in the
Major Leagues.
HUNTING WITH HOUNDS
WOULD EXTERMINATE DEER
Wonderful Exhibition of Shoot
ing Given by Neaf Apgar at
Sportsmen's Show.
BY MANHATTAN.
Wire TO The Tribune.

By Leased Wire to The Tribune
NEW YORK. March 2s.-Defeat OF the
McGrath Sunday baseball bill In the as
sembly WAS unexpected. 1t seemed TO
be the opinion that II would pass the
lower house and In fact the Democrats
who we've supporting the measure We're
confident up 10 the roll coll they would
be able 10 get enough votes to pass the
bill. II was defeated by 7S TO So.
Speaker Frisoie voted against INC o,ii: ~:
So did the majority OF the DemoSTa.ic
nor and Assemblyman Terry OF Brook
lyn. The weakness OF the, movement is
the fact that its principal hackers are
men who want TO make a business out
OF the game TO which they are mere
hangers on.
Unless cupidity or that egotism of judg-
ment which makes one think he has
shade" in the odds is aroused. syste-
matte betting will not succeed in base
hall at this time. Great evils. however,
have grown from small beginnings, anu
every lover of baseball hopes that failure
may be the portion OF those who are
seeking TO make gambling an adjunct
OF the favorte sport OF the American
people.
Betting Disgraced Players.
Betting on the game once nearly killed
the great American pastime and drove
four great players from the diamond and
into disgrace. One now a. gray haired
man moves about this city daily Stunned
by all who knew him In his day OF fame
and who also know what caused his dis
grace.
There Is movement on foot In Al
bany TO revert TO the old form OF hunting
deer with hounds. This is not sport, as
everybody knows, II Is no more sport
than that other nncivilized method,
lacking for deer. IL Is on par too,
with hunting moose on snowshoes.
In each case the quarry has not the
slightest chance for its life. and In each
real sportsmen II is hardly necessary to
explain this. To the man behind the
movement to return 10 hunting deer with
hounds explaining would be waste OF
tier counties favored the practice. con-
tending that the present protective
methods were unnecessary
Hunting With Hounds.
do not like 10 feel that this dele
cation really represented the northern
tier counties. II they were really repre-
sentative, the northern tier counties
ought TO be saved from themselves.
These men must know what hunting
deer with hounds means. If we are 10
hunt game there is only one basis in
which the sportsman can work-and that
is, man against beast, or bird. grant
that under such circumstances the man
has the worst of 1t. but that is the diff
ference between sport and butchery, II
hunting deer with hounds were again
permitted, II would mean that deer
would soon be extinct In this state,
Nearly 700 major league baseball play
ers are now training with the clubs.
Within six weeks this number Will be
cut down to AIS Some clubs have men
enough TO form four teams.
The ranks OF those who are endeavor
ing to defeat possible measure in the
MASSACHUSETTS, legislature designed to al
low Sunday sports are swelied by the
Evangelical Alliance of Greater Boston.
The Rev. Arthur Little OF dorchester
recently referred to the movement as "a
bold and determined attempt to legallze
baseball on Sunday" He said II was de-
moralizing to the community. and that
the proposed law was vicious measure,
which would destroy Sabbath sentiment.
1t was wonderful exhibition OF shoot
ing. Nsaf Apgar Won the professional
championship In the International Trap
Shooting tournament held In conjunction
with the Sportsmen's show. Apgar
broke 240 out of $50 targets.