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Show Sports Here : i and I There By Al Abletj This week I'll try and give you some idea of what Pinney Beverage and, Provo will have this season in the way of ball clubs. j Saw Pinney play Salt Lake last Sunday and they lined up a-bout a-bout like they did last year. They have Harry Ostler on first; Occie Evans played second Sunday, but I understand he will be with Brigham City when league play opens and Pinney will have Lou Campana back at his old post at second. Louis Tezak was on short and Manager Fred Tedesco on third. They had two of last year's regulars in the outfield, Joe Vec-chio Vec-chio and Dee Mattson, along with a newcomer by the name of Al Leisy. Les Lemon was behind the plate. Their pitching staff consists con-sists of Ken Price, Lamar Sharp, Jack Lowell and Bob O'Brien. The first three are regulars from last year, but O'Brien is a newcomer. new-comer. He is a Midvale boy who developed into quite a pitcher while attending baint Mary s college, Bob had a fling at Pro ball but didn't like it, so he is back home. Now folks, don't think that this isn't a real ball club, because be-cause they can give anyone plenty of trouble. They played Provo for the championship last year and the series went the full five games before Provo Pro-vo nosed them out. They are hustling every minute; and are an excellent defensive ball club. " " Their tnt ielcf'is fast and everyone every-one of them possess a good arm, while the outfield can roam far and near for a fly ball. Les Lemon Lem-on has long been known as one of the best receivers in the state league, and he has an arm that can turn those fast runners back when they get larceny in their heads. The pitching staff will probably be headed by Ken Price, a big, long boy who can hum that apple and is developing more poise wun every game. I don't know how O'Brien will go in this league, but they say this left hander has a real curve ball. Tedesco, Ostler and Vecchio will furnish the power on offense. Some of the other boys are dangerous dan-gerous hitters. This team last year beat Gemmell every game. Hope they don't do as well this year. Provo will field a veteran team composed of the best from their last year's champions and the stars of the Dividend team. Their infield, I think, on the opening day will find Len Page on first, a regular from last year. On second it looks like Les Christensen, who played for Dividend. Glen Berge has the inside track at shortstop. He is another Dividend star. On third will be Lee Kump. But if Christensen doesn't come through on second, Kump will play that bag with Manager 'Lob' Collins taking over third. In the outfield they have Mel-vin Mel-vin Jensen, Hoppy Gardner and Fran Dudley, all from last year, but they tell me a newcomer by the name of Shorty Shurtliff is making a strong bid for a regular berth. Their catching duties will again be taken care of by Don Overley. The hurling corps will be Deb Dudley, the old boy who nitched them into the pennant last year; Sam Christensen, who is making a comeback after being be-ing out last season with a bad arm. Lefty Cole is trying a Jim Jeffries. Also, they say, the Old Fox looks pretty good. The best of the rookie crop seems to be Ralph Crowton, formerly for-merly a B.Y.U. basketball star. This boy stands six foot four inches and tips the beam at 200 pounds. The rail birds tell me he can buzz that apple. This team has about everything every-thing it takes to win; a good defense de-fense and some pretty fair country coun-try hitters. So if Collins' pitching staff holds up he will give somebody some-body plenty of trouble. We played the Salt Lake Bees Tuesday and lost 1-0. The game was called in the seventh inning on account of rain. This was really real-ly a costly loss; not the game so much, but Billie Johnson, Gem-(Continued Gem-(Continued on page eight) ! from Steel, the Bees' new second baseman. Bass made Tom Robello pop up wilh the bases drunk, and Robello is the Babe Ruth of that league. Harrison struck the side out in the first inning he worked. Al Kasiellic looks like he is in for a good year at the plate. Al hits left handed, and those left handed pitchers looked like his cousins Tuesday. This boy Ray Perry on third for the Bees looks like a comer. Only five foot six tall, but he carries 175 pounds and it's all from his waist up. Has a good pair of hands, can throw and run, and he has power up at that plate. Nig Tate, that was with Helper Hel-per two years ago, looks plenty fast. If this boy gets some savvy ho is a cinch to go up. Bob Creigh-ton Creigh-ton looks the best of the new pitchers. pit-chers. They are still trying to find some place for Ray Alves, the smart fielding first baseman. Boy, I know one team in the Industrial league that could use him. I don't know what the rest of the Pioneer league looks like, but the Salt Lake Bees will be in the running, if things are anything any-thing like they were last year. Next week, I'll try and give you the dope on the rest of the teams in the Industrial league. So, until then, Love and Kisses, AL I SPOUTS HERE AND THERE Hy Al Ablett i . I (Contiued from page one) moll's shortstop, received a severe se-vere spike wound in his right foot that will keep him out of the line-up for a long stretch. Billie was covering second base on a .force play with Wilson, Gemmell's second baseman handling hand-ling the ball. Ben Guintini, the Bee left fielder, slid into the bag, feet first, and caught Billie's right foot back of the iittle toe almost cutting the toe off. It wasn't intentional, in-tentional, and the boy, after the game, expressed his sorrow. Billie Bil-lie was taken to St. Mark's hospital, hospi-tal, where they report he is getting get-ting along fine. But a team can't lose a boy like Bill and not feel it. It is hoped he will be able to be at his regular position on open-day. open-day. Gemmell was to play the Bees again Wednesday, but the game was rained out. Peewee Bass and Don Harrison, Harri-son, the Gemmell pitchers, held Salt Lake to four hits and two of those were of the scratchy variety. Ray Perry, their third baseman, got a double and Anderson, An-derson, the centerfielder, got the other three. Gemmell got only three hits off the combined combin-ed efforts of the two star porl-siders, porl-siders, Mel Rilsau and Mel Marlowe. One of the highlights of the game was the second base play of "Ug" Wilson, the clubmen's new man at that position. On the play that Johnson got hurt on, i Wilson raced behind the bag and came up with what looked like ja sure base hit. Zaccaria raced i back to the fence to take what everyone thought was a double |