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Show UTAH INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE TO START PLAYJN MAY 5 J National Baseball week, March i 30 April 6, is being marked in certain sections of United States, with particular emphasis by sporting goods dealers. In Bingham Bing-ham Canyon, fans of the favorite national sport can look forward to opening of Industrial league play, slated to begin Sunday, May 5. Entries in the league regarded as certain by W. Darrell Kidd, league secretary, are Pinney, Provo, Magna-Garfield, Gemmell club, Helper, Ogden, Brigham City. To round out the eight team circuit another team will be chosen by directors from a-mong a-mong the following applicants: Logan, Preston, Idaho, and Crescent, Cres-cent, the latter regarded as having hav-ing the inside track, as it is thought likely that the Midvale Park will be available for use of the Crescent crew. Officers and directors of the semi-pro league will meet April 11 in Salt Lake City, when the 1940 schedule will be approved. The Gemmell club entry will probably play its first home game on the new high school stadium diamond about May 15, with the two preceding games booked away from home, to allow al-low time for completion of the B. II. S. diamond and grandstand. grand-stand. (Continued on page eight) UTAH INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE LEA-GUE WILL COMMENCE PLAY ON SUN., MAY 5 (Continued from page one) Last year Industrial league games drew a total of 85,000 followers. fol-lowers. Deb Dudley, ace mounds-man mounds-man of the Provo Timps, pitched his team to the championship victory vic-tory in the playoff with Salt Lake's Pinney Beverage. The Provo win came after they had lost two games to one win in a three-out-of-five-game series. Gemmell club's Frank Zaccaria. out a great part of last season with a bad knee, tied with Al Shafer of Magna for the home run crown, each hitting five homers. Known to fans all over the state for his prowess with the bat, Zaccaria has been tops in the league for polling out homers for six years, and only the injury which kept him out of play most of last half can be blamed for his failure to reach his 1938 record, 11 homers. In 1937 he led with nine homers. LaMar Sharp, Pinney mounds-man, mounds-man, led the league in games won with an .800 average. Earl Owen, Pinney Beverage centerfielder, led at the plate with 41 hits in 100 times at bat, an average of 410. Pitcher Frank Shepherd was runner-up with a 1 .400 average. . . " |