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Show Playground Activities by Bailey Santlitevan BecraaUonaJ Director O 350 boys participated In play jround work Monday. Cool wreath-er wreath-er always helps double our nun bers. Gene McDonald la the "fat" Fothergill of the Eskimo Pie league. He holds the standing up and setting set-ting down hot dog eating Championship Champ-ionship of the playground. Joe Watts Is serious contender for the same honors. I Tom Patell will have his Copper-field Copper-field seniors in the throes ot the senior championship race before long. Standing of Teams Senior League Won Lost West's Furniture . .... 4 0 Italian-French Cafe 2 1 Miners Merc 1 3 English Dairy 0 3 Junior League Adderley & Nichols 4 0 Safeway-Skaggs 2 1 Canyon Motors 1 " 3 Miners Merc. Jrs. ........ 0 3 Pee Wee League Copper ton All-stars ...... 4 0 Frogtown All-stars 3 1 Copperfield All-stars 2 2 Highland Boy All-stars .... 1 3 Jack Householder, son of Jim 1 Householder is splattering hits to all corners for Ross Pinos, Joe Freshy, Italian-French cafe. Allen Gleason and Carl Peter-; Peter-; son of Lark, spent Monday on the playground and played with Cop-perton. Cop-perton. We invite all Lark boys to come and take part in our work. Raymond Gonzolez and his Bingham teams won their first league game from the Copperfield Juniors, 1615. It was an exciting , game right up to the last out Jackie Thurman starred for Copperfield. Cop-perfield. Schoolboy "spec" Larson turned In his first win for the Copperfield Miners' Merc, entry against Copper-ton Copper-ton on Monday. ' West's Furniture, represented by the Highland Boy seniors, are slashing slash-ing and smashing their way to the lead in the senior league. The brilliant pitching of Rex Tripp, Junior Carpenter and Rus-I Rus-I sell Boren is keeping the Adderley and Nichols entry way out In front in the Junior League. The Copperton Juniors will play under the name of the Safe-way Skaggs. I am very appreciative ot the way Bingham firms ac backing back-ing these boys and I feel sure the boys in return will fight hard for their sponsors. According to figures compiled in "Recreation" the year book of the national recreation of America, our last years program was surpassed only by Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo. Pro-vo. We had a program 1-3 as large as Ogden, a city of 45000 population and which boasts of six playgrounds. play-grounds. Not bad for a city of around 3200 population. The playground teams use a very unique system of. umpiring. Each Player on the batting team has to take his turn umpiring. In this way each player umpires against his team and his teammates, but there is very little Umpire-baiting and all decisions are accepted. Pete Badovinatz and Joe Bade-vlnatz, Bade-vlnatz, Rufus Garcia and Paul Garcia Gar-cia are brother battery mates for their clubs. The former pair playing play-ing for West's Furniture and the latter for Copperton. Two new pitchers have appeared appear-ed on the playground in Freddie Cardenas pitching for Canyon Motors Mo-tors and Isabel Lopez pitching for te Copperfield Miners Merc Juniors. Jun-iors. All have plenty of stuff and are hard workers. ' |