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Show Sports Here! jand There by Al Ablett Baseball is in the air. The high school team has been working out for the last week and a couple of real nice days has helped. You know at 1G and 17 years of age ! you don't have to have much ! time to get in shape. j Sandy should have a pretty j fair team to defend his Class B championship. Back from last j year is two thirds of that classy1 infield George Apostol at first,; Slim Valdez at second and Sonny 1 Robertson at short, and if John-, son shows the class of ball at! third that he did in Legion ball J last year here will be an inner ) corden that will rank with Bing- j ham's all tie best. One outfield I post should be well taken care j of with Gary LaComb out there, i What Sandy has for the other two outfield positions I don't i know but a number of good look-1 ing youngsters are out there try- j inn If H,T-,, ir.n . i.. ;n I shape of course the left hander will be his No. 1 pitcher. I liked the looks of Larry Farley, what little I saw of him. Catching may prove a problem but Sandy has solved them before. So from where I sit it looks like Bingham High will be just that high when the curtain goes down on the season. There is something a foot in the Industrial League. They have called a special meeting. I think they are afraid they are going to lose a couple of their towns. I have heard rumors that a new league is in the offing for our part of the country. So far it is just a rumor. But there are some good towns around here without baseball that are league baseball. Tooele, Midvale and now Lark with the U. S. Mines big operation opera-tion over there. Just a thought but a nice one. Well our Utah hopeful Rex Layne goes to the post against former heavyweight chamo Ez-zard Ez-zard Charles on April Fool's day. I hope Rex doesn't let him play a trick on him. They fight in San I Francisco's Winterland arena. It will be televised. I understand it is a sellout. If so the boys will have a pretty fair payday. j I still think Charles will take Layne if he decides to fight. He sure can't do it if he uses the same tactics as he did in their last meeting in Ogden. But since then Charles has been a busy fighter in that ring. For Charles this is his last chance. If he loses j to Layne it is goodby to his chan-I chan-I ces to ever get a crack at the championship again. Marv Jenson tells me that Rex has been promised prom-ised a shot if he wins this one. I j thoucht it would be LaStarza but ; Marv says no. So its all or noth- j j ing for these two boys. This i should make for a whale of a j scrap. As I say I pick Charles j and hope I am wrong. I 1 It looks like boxing in Salt! Lake is like the proverbial cat with nine lives. It gets another chance on April Cth when Jack McCarthy takes over at the fairground fair-ground with his first show. Jack j has been around and the fellows : that know him will tell you Jacks j word is as good as a bond. I am ! sure of one thing if the fighters j and the fans go along with the little fellow, everybody will get a fair shake. Mac has lined up what looks on paper at least, a good card. He has scheduled two ten rounders, round-ers, featuring four of the best young heavyweights in this part of the country. It puts Jack Nelson Nel-son of the Jenson stable against Dave Hamilton of the air force. Jack ls well known in Utah and before long Dave will be. Nelson ! 'may have a little too much savy j tor the former AAU champ at this stage of the game, but you can bet he will have his hands full. In the other ten it will be Grant Butcher against the sensational young Max Chris of Tooele. Butcher was one of the best on the coast and is in the midst of a comeback. Chris is a young fel- j low with all the tools to become g-.eat. He showed in his last out-1 ing that he can take care of him-1 self against veterans. Max has a, great left jab and his right car-1 ries plenty of tnt. McCarthy has' put the prices in reach of everybody, every-body, $2.50 tops. General admission admis-sion at a buck a copy. So here's hoping that the fans give Mac a chance. |