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Show Junior Legion Team Play Saturday At San Diego Housing Send-Off Given Team, Coach Bailey Santistevan Seventeen Bingham boys, team mates on the American Legion post No. 30 junior baseball crew and 1939 state champions, entrained en-trained at the Union Pacific station sta-tion in Salt Lake City Thursday morning for San Diego. To play their first game in the southwestern United States tournament tour-nament tomorrow, the Bingham boys hope to advance to the finals Sunday. Victorious team of the two-day contests will travel to Bismark, N. D., in search of the national championship. With the boys are their coach, Bailey Santistevan, and a Legion post No. 30 representative, Stan Jacques, adjutant. After play at San Diego the group plans to spend two days at the San Francisco Fran-cisco fair. A crowd of parents, friends, well-wishers and the Bingham high school band gathered at the station Thursday to wish the boys a happy journey and good luck in their baseball battles. . Slated to pitch the tournament games, Stanley Long worked out Monday under the eye of Jacques Furnier, St. Louis Brown's scout and for many years a National league star first baseman. Mr. Furnier was impressed by Long's possibilities and described him as the "best prospect I have seen since I left the coast". The team has had considerable coaching at the Copperton summer sum-mer playground under Mr, Santistevan, San-tistevan, and Captain JoeBado-vinatz, JoeBado-vinatz, Frank Nelson, Robert Nichols, Russell Gust, Ernie Sheen and Stanley Long played on the state high school championship champ-ionship team this spring. The boys who went included: Russell Gust, Russell Boren, Ernest Ern-est Sheen and Junior Carpenter of Bingham; Kenneth Davis, Stanley Long, Robert Nichols, Clyde Nichols of Copperton? Joe Badovinatz, Albert Rubalcava, John Susaeta of Highland Boy; Albino Lopez, Jack Thurman of Copperfield; Frank Nelson and Kay Nelson of Lark; Mascots Jimmy Brown of Copperfield and Bailey Santistevan Jr., were also with the team. |