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Show STATE LEAGUE LITEST lllld ' i Six-club Organization Tentative Ten-tative Plan; Commercial Will Meet Tonight. " i The latest bit of baseball gossip in amateur and semipro circles is that a six-club state league will be. formed this year, with th-i following towns represented: repre-sented: Spanish Fork. Payson, Garfieid, Magna, Provo and Kurekfi. While these clubs are mentioned, as' probable entrants en-trants in the new proposed state league, there is also talk of' dividing the state into sections, with the teams mentioned representing one section? and with clubs in Salt Lake, Ogden nd other towns representing other sections. In tijtis manner man-ner the winning clubs ; in each division could play for the stat ftitle. All of the teams mentioned in the proposed pro-posed league with the -exception of Eureka Eu-reka are on a suburbaii electric line and travel to and , from tiie various cities could be accomplished tasily.'v Besides the iroposed , state league, several sev-eral city leagues in various towns of the state are also likely o be formed. In Ogden the annual Commercial league race is expected to arouse much Ijitercst, while a similar ieagtid is being Vonsid-ered Vonsid-ered at Provo this year. Locally, the Commercial and Trolley leagues expect to have banker seasons, j The initial meeting of the Commercial leaguers is scheduled for thife evening at the Spalding store promptly-at 8 o'clock. The Sunday morning division of the Commercial league , probably will have j twelve teams this year, while the twilight twi-light division will havb- at least six j teams. In former yeaj'sj the games in I the Twilight league have: been limited ; to five and seven-inning contests, but ' with the daylight saving plan in vogue again this season, the.' games will be regular nine-inning contt'Sts. Both play- j ers and managers are nvited to attend , ; the meeting of th.o Commercial league men this evening, v It Ms expected that . the morning di vis ioi will start play on April 13, while the evening division will start on April 15. At the war prison caivU) at Fort Douglas Doug-las the baseball bug hfisaken hold with a firm grip and the men Have purchased complete equipment and eVpect to start a little league of their owi inside the war camp. Baseballe, gloveV bats, and everything needed to play te national game have been secured. The Navy-Marine 'club will inall probability prob-ability have a club ,jjn the field tiis year, and with stars returning from the1-service it is highly probable that this organization organiza-tion will have a first-class team. Enlisted men at .Fort Douglas who are still in the service expet. t have a first-rale imh-prndrnt team antf. ".villi a large numh-'i' of stars ciumIIij! . n t the rump, I he promelers expect loplny cun-I cun-I tMsls - throughout the state,' An old-: old-: tuners' club, with army stai who par-1 par-1 liripatod in the wurld war. if also being 'planned a nd. .with siu-h sti rs as Kil-, Kil-, Patrick. Olu, I avidson. Kfctclier. Lund and numeriuis.oihcrs in lin. for places on the 'team. t h-v comi'ctii I n should be keen enough lo develop a first -class aggregation. ag-gregation. The fafct Wsun team will again plav, and. wilhNPit.patrkik, Ouiin, , Coleman, Al Gunn, Xugerald, Mann, ! Scott and Tiny Leonard hi action, the i locals will be out after thftystate semi-I semi-I pro title. x. I The Trolley league will haxr eight 1 first-class teams thi year. TN first ! meeting of the season will he hekt next week. Preside nt (.Jforge Llewellyn expects ex-pects the league t1 make ro;i.l baseball history this ear. |