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Show Bingham Legion Team To Go To San Diego Championship Won By Sparkling Stale Tourney Performance Victory of the Bingham American Amer-ican Legion post No. 30 junior baseball team over the junior crew from Brigham city's post No. 10 brought a state championship champion-ship to Bingham Canyon. The 7-5 triumph moans Coach Bailey Santistevan will take his team to San Diego for a tournament between champion teams of Arizona, Ari-zona, California, Nevada and Utah to be held August 12-13. The win Sunday climaxed two previous victories, a 16-4 triumph over Payson last Friday and a harder fought encounter with Helper Saturday, which ended with Bingham on the long end of a 5-4 score. Fast Ball Played Topnotch ball was the order of the day, and every boy on the Bingham team deserves a great deal of credit. Singled out by umpires as outstanding player of the tournament was hard-working Stanley Long, pitcher, who won the Otto Wiesley medal by his performance on the mound for Bingham all three days. Ernie Sheen and Russell Gust were named with Long on the all-star team. Big inning for Bingham Sunday Sun-day was the fourth frame, in which Kenneth Davis singled to score Frank Nelson and Russell Boren. Stanley Long singled to score Robert Nichols and send Davis to third and Long to second. sec-ond. Ernie Sheen drove a three base hit to score Long and Davis, which added up to five tallies for Bingham. In the fifth a two-base hit by Frank Nelson, singles by Bado-vinatz Bado-vinatz and Boren brought in Bingham's two more counters. ! High spots of the game were in the sixth inning when Russell Gust caught a hard line drive hit by Boyd Nelson and then beat Graezer to second for an unassisted unas-sisted double play. Frank Nelson's one-hand catch of Parson's hard-hit hard-hit fly ball in the sixth was also a brilliant play. The boys planning to make the San Diego trip are: Rus3ell Gust, Russell Boren, Ernest Sheen and Junior Carpenter of Bingham; Kenneth Davis, Stanley Long, Robert Nichols, Clyde Nichols of Copperton; Joe Badovinatz, Albert Al-bert Rubalcava, John Susaeta of Highland Boy; Albino Lopez, Jack Thurman of Copperfield; Frank Nelson and Kay Nelson of Lark; Mascots Jimmy Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Brown of Copperfield, and Bailey Santistevan San-tistevan Jr. will also accompany the team. Stan Jacques, post No. 30 adjutant and junior baseball representative, will go with the team. |