The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-13
IN THE WORLDOF SPORTS
Sporting Notes
Wow! Gamblers! Helpv"

wow. IdnDlcTS. f1eip.
This is the cry that emanates from
eastern big league baseball magnates,
To hear them one might think that big
league baseball had never furnished a
medium for gambling heretofore.
The only difference is that this season
some irrepressible kentuckians started a
future book on baseball Offering certain
odds on the places In which the teams
would finish.
Heretofore there have been no public
future books, although many coteries OF
fans have made up some OF their own.
In nearly every big city. however. are
places, open or otherwise. where minors
can bet from 10 cents upward on the
make hit or any Of the innumerahle
other points In the game which are
shrouded In uncertainty. This sort of
gambling which everyone but the gam
blers themselves Will admit Is most per-
nicious has been going on Cor years,
In New York. Chicago Cincinnati and
st Louis there are dozens of places
whore such bets are taken,
II is good move for the magnates
TO suppress the future books. but why
not suppress the places that cntice minors
as well.
Perhaps 1t is true that as long as base
ball lasts there will be gamblng-not
mere wagers between friends-but real
gambling on hits. innings and other fea-
lures, but surely some way ought to he
devised TO prevent boys from being the
gamblers. Even if a law were passed
prohibiting the game altogether. gam
blers would make books on whether the
high courts would uphold the law or on
how soon it would be repealed.
Now let everybody go into mourning,
Belgar Occur de Lion is dead He was
an imported $4,000 French bulldog whose
mistress, Mrs. Arnold Lawson. daughter
in-law OF "Frenzed Finance" Lawson.
never allowed him to be referred 10 as
Of seasickness and the 'beasly New
England climate" The Lion was not a
full size bulldog, but only a miniature.
kennels in England (no not Mrs. Robert
Browning. lie weighed only IL pounds.
whereas the ordinary French bulldog
weighs 20 pounds or more. The less
is worth. Belgar Occur de Lion. after
being attended by a corps OF veterinaries.
was buried In magnificent coffin with
ALI his blue ribbons about his neck. His
mourning mistress only consolation was
that he looked too cute in his little cof-
nm; Other things might be said about
Belsar, but he is dead.
The New York Worlds sporting writer
apparently believes that Knockout Brown
is real championship timber Mr.. Pult-
zcr,s scribe says:
NOW that Knockout Brown has re-
peated, those puGiistic wiseacres who
have been inslstently contending that
he'll never be a champion are begin
nlnE 10 chdnge their MINDS, and now they
admit that possibly. In a few years. he
may develop into a real champion.
Brown is peculiar fighter In many
ways, In the first place. he reverses all
standard styles of fighting; he poltes
out his right hand and advances his
right side to his adversary: he has no
science whatever; and he's the kind OF
q nshtcr who thrives on lighting. An
other lad, lighting often as Brown
has fought would be fought out by this
time. Not the *. o. lad.
"Of course IL Is only natural that
Brown and Wolgast will meet In finish
night out west for the lightweight cham
pionship. And 7aradoXical as it may
sound. a delay Of a year will both be
an advantage and n disadvantage To
Brown. 1t will be an advantage because
the little blond Of the Boys club will
develop and Will learn great deal in
that year, Hc'n improve 100 per cent
in his knowledge Of fighting and boxing
But, al the same time. because he's still
a growing lad Brown viii take on weight
and year from now will have TO fight
among the welters. 4 wait Of three or
four months would he the proper thing
for Brown before tackllng Woleast In a
long encounter.
But then the great difficulty is that
Woleast may meet Moran or Hogan or
somebody else in the meantime. and then
probuh bly, Brown wouldn't have to fight
Wngast for the titlc-hc'd have to face
a harder proposition"