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Show 1 Sports i Here and There By Al Ablett r Basketball, a sport of wholesale whole-sale appeal, is over with for the year, with exception of M Men finals in Salt Lake. In the Industrial league playoff between be-tween Magna and Gemmell Monday evening Gemmell went on a scoring spree. They poured pour-ed that ball through the hoop for 96 points. While Magna had what is ordinarily a good total, to-tal, 57. they were just 39 points short. Marlowe Turpin and Shelby West, the Gemmell forwards, scored 53 points between be-tween them: Turpin 31, West 22. Glen Coon with 16 counters was Magna's best scorer. Shelby West paced Gemmell's attack Wednesday night at the Gemmell club when the locals cinched the pennant with an 83-46 83-46 score. West accounted for 25 points and Neil Carroll snagged 14. Baseball is really in the air. The Industrial league held a meeting in Salt Lake Tuesday night and it was definitely settled that it would be an eight-club league. Franchises have been awarded to Ogden and Brigham City and the third entry will either be D&RGW of Salt Lake City or Crescent. D&RGW is trying to lineup a park in Salt Lake City, and if Crescent gets the franchise they will probably play their home games in Midvale. With the addition addi-tion of three new clubs in the league there is certain to be plenty of interest. New faces, new cities and you have something some-thing for the fans to talk about. Brigham City is equipped for night ball and the city is sponsoring spon-soring the team, so there will be no question about the financial backing. For talent Brigham has the northern part of the state to draw from and this section has in the past produced some fine ball players. Ogden, as I understand, is being backed by Coors Beverage Bever-age company, so they are set from the money angle, too. As for talent, they have some fine semi-pro semi-pro teams in Ogden, and I am told they will take the best of these for their entry. D&RGW won both the city and state championships last season sea-son in the amateur ranks, and are desirous of competing in faster company. They have a fine ball club, and a host of backers. Crescent, backed by George Beekstead, has always had a good team. I am sure that if George is in the league he will give a good account of himself. Midvale is ready for semi-pro semi-pro ball and will likely support sup-port Crescent in fine style. The old members of the league, lea-gue, Magna, Pinney Beverage, Provo, Helper and Gemmell, report re-port they are ready for the opening open-ing ball. The fans of the Industrial Indus-trial league are in for a great season. Work has been started on the baseball field at the high school stadium. Men in charge say it will be ready in plenty of lime. In the meantime the high school stale champions under Bailey Saniislevan have opened spring training in West (Palm Beach) Jordan. And I understand Gemmell will journey jour-ney lo Coral Gables (Midvale) for Iheir pre-season workout. Ray Jacobs was in town Wednesday Wed-nesday looking for work. Ray has played plenty of baseball in his day in the coast league with the Cubs. For the last three years he managed the Yakima club in the Pacific Northwest league. He has always been a great hitter. When I saw him in '33 he was leading the coast league lea-gue in home runs and was a-mong a-mong the first five hitters in percentage. per-centage. His home is in Salt Lake City and he wants to settle down. Will be a good man for some Industrial In-dustrial league team. Gemmell club is going to have a team in the amateur federation. federa-tion. And they , are to play their home games in Bingham. This will be a fine thing for the young ball players, as it will give them a chance to develop. I am sure they will have a team that will be up there in the race and the (Continued on page 8) several uceasions when J ? looked bad when he wJ? gainst a man who didn't" in picture book style. So i 1 : say right here, if he tak -chek lightly he is making,'1 take, because this boy jj . the finest boxers to show t ! heavyweight division since -L: Tunney. If Johnny can geuri first few rounds without 8X hurt, he stands a good chat r" being in there at the fintj' I think this covers about JUI thing this week. See youf Friday. AL I Sports Here And There by Al Ablett (Continued From Page One) local fans will get to see more baseball. a. Well, Johnny Paychek, the Des Moines, Iowa, heavyweight heavy-weight that I touted in this column three years ago has finally fi-nally got to the lop. He is fighting fight-ing Joe Louis next Friday night for the championship of the world. Johnny has a big job cut out for himself, but I think the boy will be ready to give the fight of his life. We have no way of knowing out here wheather Louis has slipped or not. But against Godoy in his last bout he looked plenty bad. He might have taken the South American too lightly and not have been in shape. Again Godoy's style may have bothered him. You know, there have been |