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Show Large Crowds Witness Junior League Opening The newly organized Bingham Bing-ham Junior Baseball League got under Way wifli a bang, arid) Copperton' Cop-perton' Ball Park, Monday evening even-ing when a rousing game was played between Highland Boy and Bingham iNo. 1. The official opening ceremonies began with a parade of the six ' perfield, Highland Boy, Copper-' Copper-' ton4 Bingham No. 1, "All Stars", an Bingham No. 2, "Frogtown," - led by the Bingham High School ... band and the Boy Scout Colors . and guard. To a snappy march tune, with Old Glory waving, the boys strutted along in their classy : looking uniforms all the pomp and " pep of real "big leaguers." Pic-j Pic-j tures of the several teams, and of ! the entire group, were then taken, ' while the band entertained the t crowd with several good selec-j selec-j tions. ' A large and. colorful crowd was ? in attendance, who shouted their ' approval as the Bingham boys took tlhe field, and Mayor Flynn (after a good wind-up) pitched , the first ball, to Joe Norden. Paul Ransom, behind the bat, had call- ed for a curve, but the ball failed to twist enough, and Joe cracked it to Lloyd Bolton who threw to Jack Smith, and Umpire Ray ,j Shilling declared it an out. V Then the game began in deadly hitting was shown the fans, and all evidence points to a very successful suc-cessful and mighty peppy season for the Junior League. Due credit should be given the men of the American Legion, the Kiwanis, and of Bingham, Lark, Highland Boy, Copperton and Copperfield, generally, who have contributed their time and efforts to ,ie organization or-ganization of this builder of young Americans. The box score by innings : RUE JlTghlantt. B031000 0- 448 Bingham . 2 0 6 1.3 2. x-12 5 4 Highland Boy: . AB R II PO B P.eitia, 2b 2 0 0 1 4 Annderson, 3b . . 4 0 1 1 0 O'Saro, ss. ...... 4 0 1 3 2 Strelich, If ..3 0 0 1 1 Pazell, cf 3 0 0 0 0 Bolic, cf 0 0 O 0 0 Bogden, rf 1 2 O 1 0 Biandi, c 4 0 2 1 4 Uzlac, p 2 10 1 5 26 4 4 18 16 Bingham All Stars : AB R II PO B Bolton, 2b 3 0 0 1 1 Caufieldi, cf ...... 2 1 0 0 0 B. Johnson, ss 2 2 2 2 1 J. Smith, lb ..... 2 2 1 6 0 Pacnotta. c. 3 2 1 7 2 earnest ana uesjiue ouiuw j.u.-i j.u.-i bles daie to the excitement of the opening game, a real contest was shown the fans. Tom Beitia, "half pint" second 4 baseman for Highland Boy ivas the first lad to find the ball, tho only for a pop-fly to Johnson. Manuel O'Saro got the first hit of the game, a nice single to right. For Bingham the first boy to hit was Johnson, who singled to right f in the fourth inning. 1 ' Both twirlers were liberal with i free passes, but hard to hit,, many runs being scored with no hits v whatever. Highland Boy had their first inning in the second, scoring three runs with one hit, while Bingham got six in the third with no hits. The best hit of the - 4day was Hugo Biranchio's triple to deep right field in the third, which scoredwhich scored Bogden.. Bog-den.. Howard Smih also got a husky clout to deep center. Tony i Strelich hit a long one into deep - center, in the fifth .and circled the bases, but lost a home run, and, incidentally, the five dollar ;, prize offered by Joe Berger, thru ! his failure to touch first base, billy Johnson had a perfect day at bat with two hits in as many times up. , . , V- , Some snappy fielding and hard V C. Johnson, 3b. . . 2 1 0 3 1 Davidson, If 3 1 1 1 0 IL Smith, rf.-c. . . 3 1 0 1 1 Hutchings, rf 0 0 0 0 0 Musilli, p. 1 2 0 0 2 21 12 5 21 8 Summary : Three base hit Bianehi. Stolen bases, Beitia, Bolic, Borich, Bol-toii Bol-toii 2, Caufield Pagnotla 2, C. Johnson 2, Musilli. Bases on balls, off Borich 11, off Busilli 9. Struck out, by Mus. illi 9, by Borich none. Passed balls Pagnotota 2. Wild pitches, Borich Bor-ich 2. Hit by pitcher, by Borich 1, (Musilli). Sacrifice hit, Cou-field. Cou-field. Umpires, Bankhead . and Abbott. Today's game- between Copperton Cop-perton and Copperfield on the local diamond resulted in a victory vic-tory for the former . The score was 15 to 10. Thursday Bingham vs. Frog Town. Friday Lark at Highland Boy. Saturday Frog Town at Copper-ton. Copper-ton. Miss Zella Ward retunred Friday Fri-day to Los Angeles after a week's visit with her motohcr, Mrs. Neva Abel. |