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Show Boys' Baseball Tourney Highlights By LeGrande Young Fourteen tired kids from Sage Creek's Boys' Baseball team returned to Springville Monday morning with mixed emotions; sad that they hadn't been able to win any ball games but very happy with memories of one of the finest vacation trips ever imagined. And every one of these fine boys had the joy of making new friendships that will last a lifetime. This was a wonderful example exam-ple of kindness and consideration considera-tion on the parts of the people who housed our boys in Santa Monica. The families were from the Santa Monica National League which is considered to be one of the best residential neighborhoods in Santa Monica. These folks went all out to see that our boys had a wonderful vacation and literally there were more than a few tears shed when the boys had to leave to return last Sunday. One lady who was hostess to Ricky Witney and Mike Shep-pard Shep-pard was heard to remark, "Oh dear, I've become so used to looking after Ricky that I don't know what I'll do when he's gone." Some of the highlights of the trip were Stephen Mock's fine little speech at the annual banquet ban-quet in which he told the five hundred people there that Springville is famous for having hav-ing the purest, coldest, best tasting water anywhere in the world." Jud Harward did a wonderful job in representing his team, the people from this area and his church when he asked the blessing of the food at the beginning of the banquet. ban-quet. Incidentally the banquet was held in Santa Monica's new multi-million dollar civic auditorium, aud-itorium, a building which was opened only a month or so ago and which is a thing of great pride to the people there. Ricky Witney's reaction to the beacli was very descriptive. He said, "Boy, those waves just come in and roll up and hit you in the belly . . . just like a bull without horns." On Friday night we took all the kids out to Pacific Ocean Park, a big new recreation pa-villion pa-villion where the boys rode on dozens of new and interesting rides. We lost one boy, and didn't find him until after mid-( mid-( Continued on page 8, col. 5) Tourney Highlights ' (Continued from Page One) night. After realizing he was j lost he returned to our hotel where he found Finley Roy-lance. Roy-lance. Each of the boys went swimming swim-ming at the beach a couple or more times. Several of the boys went to see the Los- Angeles Dodgers play Saturday afternoon. after-noon. Saturday night all the families fami-lies who had housed our boys went together and had a picnic for the boys and for all the acompanying parents and the friends of the Springville team. Never have I seen such beautiful beauti-ful fruit salads, nor any better fried chicken. I was interested in sports-writer sports-writer Bill Coltrin's statement regarding the food on the train. He said that in figuring the cost of the trip he had calculated calcu-lated the cost of the most expensive ex-pensive item on the menu and multiplied it by the number of kids on the train. (Incidentally menu prices averaged about $1.95 per meal.) When we arrived ar-rived in Santa Monica the seventy sev-enty boys had eaten $95 worth of food more than he had guessed gues-sed they would. To paraphrase Winston Churchill . . . "never HenLnger, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Snow, Keith Huff, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Shepherd, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Mock and Mr. and Mrs. Finley Roylance. One of the most gratifying things to those, of us who have worked in the boys' baseball! program in Springville, was the fact that in the board of directors di-rectors discussions and in several sev-eral informal discussions of the Western Boys' Baseball Association program, our local program was held up as a model from the standpoint of supplying adequate leagues for the city's population. Poulation of the Sage Creek league area is about three thousand or less. Some of the leagues with teams in the tournament represented areas of 25,000 population. The league officers were notified population must split and con-that con-that in the future leagues hav--ing more than ten thousand form to the ten thousand maximum max-imum population rule. have so few eaten so much." The thing that was nice was that Coltrin paid the bill with a smile on his face. Some of those who accompanied accomp-anied the boys by train or by auto to the tournament were Mrs. John Stokes, Mrs. Lenard Harward, Mike Young, Sage Creek League President Jerry |