Cedar City Boys Get Chance to Participate in Junior Baseball More than 1,000,000 boys will be given the opportunity for healthful sport as over 16,000 Junior American Legion teams take to the ball parks this spring. This year, Cedar City will field at least one, and maybe more teams, depending on the turnout of material. Boys, to be eligible to play, must not have reached their 17th birthday prior to January Janu-ary 1 of this year. So far, the following southern south-ern Utah towns have announced their intentions of having a team this year, and some have already started practice. The towns are St. George, Hurricane, Springdale, Rockville, Beaver and Milford. Cedar City will compete with these teams for district honors. hon-ors. Wes Mullett of Cedar City is heading the program this year. All eligible boys, experienced or not, who wish to play ball are urged to see Wes at Mullctt's Jewelry store on Main street or Frank Barreca at the Iron Coun- ty Record and sign up for the team. Baseball suits and equipment are being obtained to outfit the team. Practice sessions will begin be-gin before the end of school. Instructional In-structional films on playing baseball are being obtained through the Thorley Motor company. com-pany. Each year, Ford and Mercury Mer-cury dealers all over the coun-try coun-try aid and back the American Legion in running the program. Some of the great baseball players of today who got their start in Junior American Legion Baseball include Lou Boudreau, Stan Musial, Hal Newhouser, Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, Johnny I'ecky and many others. It is hoped that all the young men of Cedar City will take advantage ad-vantage of this opportunity and help to makes the program a success.