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"QOODWIN'S WEEKLY. 5 liil 2
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Sporting Life.
Tlie principal event of the week in the local
study of baseballogy, outsido of the magnificent
benefit given the Salt Lake Press club, was the
sudden fading away in a night of "Old Chap"
Davis C. MacAndrows, the gentleman from the
cultured precints of Bawston, who kindly conde
scended to serve for a few days with Manager
Borcher's , Misfits as day watchman on the third
cushion.
The "Indian," as lie is better known, especially
in football circles, has been absorbing telephonic
knowledge at Kemmerer, Wyo., during the winter
and spring months, but as the summer came on
the smoke of the battles on Utah's diamonds got
up his noso and the old warhorso, after stamping
around a while 11: a perfectly scandalous manner
and telling every man, woman and child within
reach of his velvety tenor voice how he used to
cut-up back East when he was in college at dear
old Dahmuth, finally slipped his halter and broke
his way through the brush as far as Logan, where
he joined the Greatest Show on Earth, Wild Bill
IS Borcher's Band of Aerial Artistic Misfits, and went
H through the agony of three performances in which
H ho appeared in his famous Gus Hill act with, the
H clubs and played the leading role in that touching
H pastoral drama entitled "Col. Boot's Busy Day."
H His greeting from the audience on his appear-
H ance in the latter role was not of such a char-
H acter as to get him many engagements with
H Charley Frohman next season and the super-sen-
H sitivo young man broke down as he saw his fondest
H hopes dashed to the mat for a pin-fall, three points
H touching. That night, after he sought his note,
ho was seized with a violent attack of cold feet a
sporting term well known among poker dabblers
H and, rapidly growing worse, he made a flying
H tackle for the 10:40 train going north and hiked
H for the comforting serenity of Kemmerer with his
H load of sorrow and whatever else ho may have
accumulated where he could shine as the great
B big IT, "no matter what those vulgar papers said,"
and where he could run the little sage-brush
league he started as a pastime early in the season,
lo his hearts' contont.
In the meantime, many sorrowing hearts are
left behind him here in Zion, especially among the
n fair society buds, for Davy was a regular "deevil
amang th' wummen." Manager Borcher's grief is
something awesome to behold, but he will endeavor
to bear up under his loss.
The latest proposition is to call the present
league series at and end on the loth of this month,
keep the same schedule with, perhaps, a few
changes, and start a new season to finish out the
baseball year. Of course, the championship of the
first series will be conceded to Ogden, as they are
as far from here to the coast ahead of their near
Hcst competitor. There is a chance, however, as
the have lost the two best men on the team,
Casey and Clark, and at present have only one
pitcher in Thomas, as Richards don't count, that
some one of the other four clubs will have a
chance to pull off the second series as the teams
will be as evenly matched as it is possible to get
them, in which case the two winners will be
brought together in a series of games for the
championship. This scheme seems to meet with
the approbation of both players and public and
will probably be adopted as Logan, the team which
Ogdon and Salt Lako were so anxious to force out
of the league, has got its Irish up and swears
by all that is holy they will stick until "th' last
galoots ashore." The supporters of the nine have
oven gone so far to do what no other bunch in
ho teague have done, though better able to afford
Ku- A purse has been made up of $25 to bo divided
among the players for every game they win, with
the result that the men are out for the scalps of
opponents with a barrel of basehit knives con
cealed in their underwear.
As things look at present Ogden is the weak
sister in the league so far as patronage is con
cerned and were it not for the rivalry between
this city and that jerkwater town which' serves
to draw out the crowd when the Lobsters play
here and puts the only coinero they get in their
pockets, it would be just as well to pass them up.
A Fragment Anent Trout Fishing:.
" and be quiet; and go a-angling."
- IZAAK WALTON.
Gentle Izaak! Ho has been dead these many
years, but his disciples are still faithful. When
the cares of business lie heavy and the sound of
wheels jarring on cobbled streets grows painful,
one's fingers itch for the rod. Every man. who has
ever gotten the love of the stream in his blood
feels this longing.
It comes to me every year with the first
breath of spring. There is something In the
sweetness of the air, the growing things, the
"'robin in the greening grass" that voices it.
Duties that have before held in their performance
something of pleasure become irksome, and prac
tical thoughts of the day's work are replaced by
dreamy pictures of a tent by the side of a moun
tain stream close enough to hear the water's
singing in the night. Two light bamboo rods rest
against the ten pole, and a little column of smoke
rising straight up through the branches marks
the supper fire.
Izaak Walton never went a-fishing as we do
here in the West we who have the mountains
and the fresh air so boundlessly. He who is spon
sor for all that It gentle In agling missed much
that is best in the sport by living too early. Ho
did not experience the exquisite pleasure of wad- j f ffifjpM
ing down mountain streams in supposedly water- 1 $ jff vf IS
proof boots, feeling the water trickle in coolingly; j I i i
nor did he know the joy of casting a gaudy fly far ,Jff
ahead, letting it drift, insect-like, over that black Sllllria
hole by the tree stump, and then, feeling the sea m M M fM
weed line slip through his Angers to the whirr of i tI 1 '
the reel. And, at the end of the day, supper over, lflf$iii',
he did not squat around a big campfire and light i Ipjflj tm
his pipe, the silent darkness of the mountains jL , jj a f
gathering round, and a basket full of willow- i'Jy ifl
packed trout hung in the clump of pines by the 111 Jtjl
tent. Izaak's idea of fishing did not comprenend , 1 fl
such joy. With a can of worms and a crude f T J U
hook, he passed the day by quiet streams, thread- 7 jl
ing the worms on his hook and thinking kindly of . V kM
all things. The day's meditations over, he went j f ' ,i I
back to the village, and, hayhap, joined a few ! tyfm
kindred souls over a tankard of ale at the Sign, EWi V'ltB
of the Red Lobster. Slji',
To my mind, there is no real sport in any ill! lm
kind of fishing but with a fly. This sitting on the llf &jM
bank of a muddy stream with your bait sunk, f Wrl !$
waiting for a bite, may be conducive to gentle-i IJtwILffl
ness and patience of spirit, but it has not the joy 11 $1 wfa
of action in which a healthy man revels. How il m H!H
much more sport it is to clamber over fallen logs v rlH
that stretch far out a-stream, to wade slipping ; R !
over buolders and let your fly drop caressingly on jt,, ,jfl
riffles and swirling eddies and still holes! It Is J f
worth all the work to see the gleam of a silver jiffy Iff M
side as a half-pounder rises, and, with a flop,- lliijSH
takes the fly excitedly to the bottom. And then liMsIH
the nervous thrill as, with a deft turn of the wrist,' iffl Hj9
you hook his securely whoever has felt that lljirtlfl
thrill cannot forget it. It will come back to him lllfjllfl
in his law office when he should be thinking of lliiJH
other things; and with it will come a longing for Elllittfl
that dear remembered stream and the old days. Kllil JM
That is the hold trout fishing takes on a man. J rm
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