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Show Bantams to play benefit games throughout Utah Throughout February, some 1,600 Utah youngsters will "play basketball to help other boys walk." The program to raise funds for the Utah Society for crippled crip-pled Children and Adults is an annual Utah National Guard Bantam Basketball Benefit show. Youngsters 11 to 13, will play in Utah National Guard Armories throughout the state this month. The bantams are now selling 50c tickets to the game in hopes of presenting the society with another $1,000 -plus check. In-1961, the Bantam Basket-eei's Basket-eei's sold enough tickets to contribute, $1,248 to the Utah Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Last year the figure fig-ure sored to $1,693, and Maj. Gen. Maxwell E. Rich, Utah Adputant General, hopes to surpass that total this year. William F. Haney, executive director of the Utah i Society, has lauded the Utah National Guard's benefit basketball program pro-gram which annually turns in a significant contribution to ward the furtherance of this and other worthwhile society projects. Bantam basketball, under the direction of Brig. Gen. Maurice L. Watts, has grown from a small league in Salt Lake City to over 130 teams in all reaches of the state. Every year they put aside at each armory a full day of games' especially for the benefit program they "play basketball to help other boys walk." Not all hunters are out for game. |