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Show Sports Here and There By AI Ablett No tournament. Because on Tuesday Bingham high went down to defeat at the hands of a hot-shooting Murray crew at the new Jordan gym in their play-off for third place. I didn't see the game but they tell me Murray was as hot as one of the ingots from their smelter in the ' first half. Bingham played them on pretty even terms in the second sec-ond half, but the damage had all-ready all-ready been done. Murray beat Tooele last night 41-29. To Bingham high, I say thanks for a swell season. You didn't win a place in the tournament, tour-nament, that's true, but you kept every fan in town guessing guess-ing and the interest at fever pitch every minute. You played play-ed the game, according to the rules, and you accepted defeat as graciously as you did victory. You kept our minds on basketball, basket-ball, and in these troubled times when every country in Europe has its mind on a game of life and death, that is something. some-thing. So thanks, fellows, and I know that you will tell the other schools in the Jordan division that you will be doing business in the same old stand next year. Speaking of basketball, we had the privilege of seeing one of the finest teams in the country last Friday night when Phillips Oilers played Gemmell in the club gym. About 1500 fans turned out, and they witnessed one of the smoothest exhibitions of basketball bas-ketball ever seen in these parts. The Oilers, smarting under the hide about a piece that was written writ-ten by one of the Salt Lake sport writers, (he said they looked like an over grown high school team) went right to work. Boy, how they went to work! They passed, screened and blocked as if a championship hung in the balance, bal-ance, and when the gun sounded ending the game, the score read Phillips 92, Gemmell 50. Not bad for a high school team, eh what? News from the big league training camps tells us that Bill DeLancy is trying to come back with the St. Louis Cards. I don't know how many of you remember remem-ber Bill, but he was one of the finest young catchers in baseball in 1934. He caught every game in the World Series that year between be-tween St. Louis and Detroit, and catching against the great Mickey Cochrane, he didn't suffer any in the comparisons. He was stricken with a lung ailment in the middle of the 1935 season, and the doctors said it was tuberculosis. Bill went down into New Mexico to start that long hard climb that leads from the valley of death. The last couple of years he has been managing man-aging Albuquerque in the Arizona-New Mexico league. He didn't do any catching but occasionally (Continued on page 4) money-earning record of $367,000 by winning $86,000, sending his earnings to the all-time high of $467,000. Now that isn't bad for a horse that was bought for $7,500. C. S. Howard, his owner, hasn't decided what he will do with Old Bones yet, but my guess is he will retire him to stud. He has earned a rest. I see where the last and best of the DiMaggios has come to terms. Joe signed his contract with the Yankees Monday. It will be interesting to watch the three brothers this summer. Vince is with Cincinnati and Dominic with the Boston Red Sox. Vihce is going back up for his second trial, having been with the Boston Bees in 38. They sent him back to the minors because he couldn't hit. At Kansas City under Bill Myers he changed his swing and had a great year leading lead-ing the American association in home runs, besides batting over .300. If he can hit for distance, he will stay, because the Reds can surely use a power hitter. Vince can field and throw with the best of them. Dominic is going up for his first trial in the big league, my guess is he will stay. He has grown in the last year, and with Frisco last season he started to get distance with his base hits. This fellow can do everything; run, throw and field. So, if he measures up as a hitter he will be a regular. Joe, ah, well, ask anybody that reads baseball! Boy, they have a new cocktail called the Rhett-Scarlet. Take two and you are Gone With the Wind. See you around. Al SPORTS HERE AND THERE Ry Al Ablett (Continued from page one) went in to pinch hit. Last winter the M. I)'s. told him he had readied ihe top so he is back in the canp of the Cardinal. If Bill DeLancy (-an regain the form j he had in 1935 the 1940 Tenant race in the national league will be just a breeze for the Ray Blade's outfit. Here's hoping he can. Old Bones, better known a Sea Biscuit, has reached the goal his owner set for him when" he won the Santa Anita handicap Saturday. He passed Sim Bean's |