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Show It s Sports Here and Tliere by AL ABLETT ers for 18 hits. Louis Valdez showed that he needs plenty of work to get into shape. Sammy Oliver isn't able to cut loose yet. He is recuperating from an appendectomy. ap-pendectomy. Gene Fish ' had plenty of zip, but lacked control. A little more work should re- As the season gets underway in the old Utah Copper park, baseball is the interest of the sports fans. The high ichool team is leading lead-ing the league, and going Irong. They turned back the powerful Cyprus nine 7-4 last Friday and took Granite into camp 11-4 the first of this week. They played Daris here Thursday, results, Bingham 12, Davis 6. Coach Bailey Santistevan has a well-balanced team, one that I think has only one opponent to worry about, and that is Cyprus. With Raymond Marks in good shape I think they can take the Pirates. I believe that this pitcher pitch-er makes the difference in the two teams, and the boy handles himself in fine shape for a high school star. Joe Badovinatz has been hitting the ball at a merry clip. So has Joe Frisch. These medy that. Don Harrison got by Wednesday Wednes-day in good style. Young Bob Davis hit a long one over the fence for the locals. This boy has possibilities. Gemmell has signed George Sluga, formerly former-ly of Helper, who showed himself a good hitter with the Carbon county club last year. Where he will play has not been decided. Johnny Pierson looked the best on second base. As I said before, it is early to say how Gemmell will stack up. If the pitchers produce, they will be up at the top, because, believe be-lieve me, folks, they can hit! This fellow Kiley on shortstop or Salt Lake, looks like the goods. Trower on second, with a little more weight will go places. I was rather disappointed in Ar-lett, Ar-lett, but this boy Botelho, the catcher, can really throw that nugget., Alves, on first, looks like a good ball player. He has a little lit-tle more polish, probably results of his playing with Tuscon last year. . One Utah boy has a chance to stay with the Pioneer league, lea-gue, this fellow Cushing from Salina, who plays right field. But my guess is that Ogden and Pocatello will be the teams to beat because they have good connections. Ogden has backing of Cincinnati and Pocatello has the Cardinals. Haven't heard much of our amateur team, but they say the boys will have a good one. Will tell you all about them next week. two fellows have been playing bang-up ball in the field. Frisch looks like the best third baseman in the league. Sergio Alvarer on short has made some nice plays at that position. He hasn't been hitting up to expectations, but he will, because he doesn't go after many bad balls. On first Joe Montoya is a good-looking player. His only weakness seems to be his speed. Ernest Nichols at cenlerfield has what looks like the making of a good hitter. Magna has one boy in this fellow Duncan who will bear watching. Gemmell opened the season unofficially Wednesday when they played the Salt Lake entry in the new Pioneer league. It was the first competition for the locals, and of course they suffered in comparison. You can't tell much from a game of this kind. The Bees blasted the offerings of four Gemmell pitch- |