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Show ; Sports Here and There By AI Ablett 1 r Gemmell was finally stopped in their drive for second half laurels. Helper turned the trick Wednesday, 5 to 2. Lindsey on the mound for the Miners was effective ef-fective with men on, and the Clubmen were held until the eighth inning when they manufactured manu-factured two runs. Helper got three in the first when Curia homered with two men oa, both men having reached first when the infielder, in chasing the ball, slipped and fell in the mud. I know that sounds funny to us in Bingham, because wo haven't seen rain for so long we can't remember what it's like, but it rained in Helper Wednesday, and I do mean poured. Saturday night and Sunday will long be remembered by the Pinney ball club as a nightmare. night-mare. Gemmell club went into the ninth inning Saturday night in Community Park trailing by one run, 5 to 4, but the big guns wheeled into action and when the smoke cleared away the Clubmen were leading 8 lo 5, and that is the way the game ended. Peewee Bass started, but his arm hurt him so he had to retire before the side was out in the first. Bob Detmers took over and he had the Salt Lake boys eating eat-ing out of his hand. He allowed them just four hits for seven and one-third innings. Frank La-Combe La-Combe hit for him in the ninth and Sammy Oliver pitched the last inning, retiring the side without with-out any damage being done. La-Combe La-Combe opened the fatal inning with a triple to right, and after retiring one man, Price lost control con-trol and walked Kastelic and Velcheck to fill the bases. George Sluga then hit a double, scoring two men, and Zaccaria hit a line drive single to score two more. Zac was out stealing and Sum-nicht Sum-nicht flied out to end the inning, but the damage had been done. Sunday was a different story. The game was over as early as the third inning. Gemmell scored seven runs in this inning, and with Fish pitching superlative ball. As far as Pinney was concerned con-cerned that ended the game. Gemmell went on to score nine more runs and the score ended 16 to 5. HIGHLIGHTS: Frank La-Combe La-Combe of Gemmell has been wearing that ball out 9 for 17 in the last four games. Wilson, Gemmell's second base-1 man, got four for five in Helper and three of those were doubles. Zac went into a short slump, but he has snapped out of it in the last three games. Kastelic hit one Sunday far up in the bleachers in centerfield to score two men ahead of him. George Sluga is fast becoming becom-ing one of the best fielding first basemen in the league. This is George's first year on the bag. He played the outfield before. Magna isn't doing so well this half, but I believe Erickson has uncovered a find in this boy Ridd on third base. Venturelli played third for Helper Wednesday. He is the boy thai pitched the Helper (Continued on page ten) Detroit are a half game apart as of this morning (Thursday). I still like Cleveland. I said before the season that Feller would win between 2f) and 30 and he is going go-ing alter his 18th today. St. Louis continues to be the giant killer in the American League. They have taken turns knocking Detroit, De-troit, Cleveland and Boston out of first place. They beat Boston four straight about a month ago and the boys from Beantown have never gotten over it. Cleveland Cleve-land opens a six game stand with them this week, so look out, Indians. In-dians. The suicide of Willard Hersh-berger, Hersh-berger, the Cincinnati second string catcher, semis ht have shaken the ball club a little. Too bad that this boy took his job so seriously, but the general run has come down withT the jitters in the field. FUUT five errors m ,-.v,.ry ur-Boise ur-Boise in second place j, iu! bad Idaho Falls is the in the league right now. ' I see where Ogden play,, Kansas City Monarch',; 19th. "Satchel" Pag8, lh' negro pitcher, will be on i mound for the Monarch A if you have never seen'p, pilch, you have yel to livi can really hum that ball, The House of David plays Lake on the lath and Gev on the 21st. The whisker, haven't shown in Bingham, 1934, so there should b a crowd. So until next week, So Lone,, A I. of fans don't realize the pressure a ball player is under in a tough pennant drive. If they did there would be more back slapping and less biting. F.ric McNair of the Chicago White Sox asked to be put on the voluntarily retired list the other day because of the jitters. This fellow was one of the stars of the team last year, but this year he got off to a bad start and the fans got on him, and he started pressing. The result was he couldn't relax, so he had to quit. No game in the wiii Id is exactly like bast-ball, where you arc a hero uiie day and a tram) the next. The Salt Lake Bees are having their troubles. Pitching has gone sour, and the rest of the team t . SPORTS HERE and THERE (Continued from page one) American Legion team to the state championship. He looks like a good prospect as an in-fielder. in-fielder. banged one against the fence for a double and got a single besides. This boy Nyman, a rookie from the Cache valley league, has been wearing that ball out for Brigham Brig-ham City. Plays the outfield. After that loss to Helper, Gemmell Gem-mell will probably draw a new bunch of fans. You know, the kind of people that like to stand around and look at a bad accident. acci-dent. Our American Legion team was eliminated in a close ball game to Brigham City, !! to 7, after having beaten Provo, one of the pre-tournament favorites, 8 to 4. Helper beat Brigham 8 to 7 in 12 innings for the championship. champion-ship. Venturelli, the Helper pitcher, pitch-er, struck six men out in the last two innings and in the twelvth got his three men with a man on second and third and with nobody no-body out. That is what I call pitching when the chips are down. The winners go to Arizona Ariz-ona to take part in the regional play off. That American League race is as close as the bread in a drug store sandwich. Cleveland and |