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Show 5 Dugout Biggin' s . . from Hie MidKtt L-aguse . . . ... by j. Young Race for the Springville Midget leuge baseball championship has developed into pretty much of a two-way race between Bill Duncan's Dun-can's 20-30 club and the fast developing de-veloping Jaycee team. Lou Schar-dine Schar-dine manages the Jaycees. The green-topped twenty-thir-tyers were dumped for their first loss of the season last Monday night by Utah Service, who are also coming along very fast. The score was 12-2 with Don Holda-way, Holda-way, Lynn Hales and Milo "Shar-ky" "Shar-ky" Smart leading the Utah Service Ser-vice onslaught. The Jaycees stayed in the race with a well-played 8-4 win over Haymond Drug team. The Druggists Drug-gists threatened twice in late innings, in-nings, but Grant Simons, Jaycee pitcher, was superb in the clutch and led his team to a well-deserved win. Paul Cherrington and Michael "Buddy" Gardner were on the hill for Haymond's. Next Monday's games will feature fea-ture the clash between 20-30 and Utah Service at 5 p.m., which should go a long way in determining deter-mining the league championship and a 6:30 game between llay- mond's and Utah Service. Loser of this game will rest in the league cellar. At the conclusion of the season a Springville all-star team will be chosen to represent the Art City in county-wide play-offs. Managers Mana-gers of the four teams will select the all-star squad. , A movement is now underway to hold a "little league" day at the conclusion of the regular sea- sori, which would feature a round robin tournament between ' the teams and a father's and son's watermelon wa-termelon bust. i One highlight of the season has been the number of practice games played by the teams with opposition fnom Pleasant Grove, Payson, Spanish Fork and Provo. The Springville teams have done very well against the outside competition, com-petition, winning something better than fifty percent of their games. Wave Miguel, manager of the Utah Service team, is leading a drive to affiliate with the national little league set-up for next season. sea-son. If successful, each team would-be would-be fully uniformed for play, and league winners would play off with other league champs with the opportunity to compete for the national championship. |