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Show Second Ward M Men To Enter Tourney At Payson s Second' To Field Strong Team In Big Division 6 Meet Second Defeats Eighth, Ninth and Sixth In Round Robin Playoff for Title; Hales, Miller, Johnson Are High Scorers The Second ward M Men won the Kolob Stake M Men basketball championship here Friday night after having won all three games in the round robin tourney tour-ney conducted Wednesday through Friday. Eighth Bill Dickey, former manager of the New York Yankees and now back as coach, has a tough job ahead of him to teach Catcher Yogi Berra how to throw a ball quickly to second base. Berra, up in big time for three years, still doesn't throw that ball like a major maj-or leaguer should and it's up to Dickey to do something about it. If Berra hasn't been- able to improve im-prove after being with the Yanks for three years, he certainly can't do much about it now. That sort of polishing should have been done in the minors. Dickey probably will tell him to forget catching and stick to outfielding. Baseball's new bonus rule may give several big league clubs a real headache. Fifteen players, each received more than the $6000 major league maximum, must remain re-main with the club that signed them they cannot be farmed out. The Philadelphia Phils have five, one-fifth of the regular season sea-son roster of 2?. If they fail to come through because of lack of training, the burden will have to be carried by the other players. They could sell the five, of course, at a big loss. Th ; Cleveland Ind-. ians have three, including Pitcher Satchel Paige. The "hopefuls" mean an investment of around $400,000. came out second with Ninth plac- ing third and Sixth getting fourth. Having won the championship reportedly the first time for the Second warders, the club will go directly into the big Division Six tournament to be played in Payson beginning next Wednesday, Feb. 16 to 19, and will represent this stake along with top winning clubs from the Utah County stakes as well as teams from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming. The event takes in more area and represents more teams and stakes than any other district in the Church set-up. Coach Leonard Harward has a team that should go a long way in the district meet. In Blaine Johnson, Ray Miller, Gerald Bjarn-son, Bjarn-son, and Jimmie Fullmer, Coach Harward has enough heighth to match any club. All these fellows are well above the 6 foot mark and are all -experienced and good ball players. Somewhat smaller in stature, but not in scoring ability abil-ity and all-around play, are Lentz Crandall, fast and clever dribbling artist; Martin Reed, outstanding guard; Merlin Fox, Ray Clark and Paul Ence, first string reserves who fit in well and play an outstanding out-standing brand of ball. These fellows fel-lows have won all but one game in league play and have won practically prac-tically all their practice games during the fore part of the season. Their opening day opponent has not been selected yet, but local fans are anticipating and hoping for a sucessful bid for the championship. champ-ionship. , Round Robin Results ... ' The results of the round robin meet for the Kolob championship Wed. through Friday follows with quarter score tabulations of the games: Wednesday Games: Ninth 7 15 18 35 Second 16 26 39 46 Sixth 5 21 32 38 Eighth 18 30 44 55 Thursday: Sixth 4 20 , 30 31 Ninth 7 16 24 33 Second 8 20 35 47 Eighth 2 10 14 23 Friday: Eighth 9 IV 36 40 Ninth 9 20 26 34 Second 16 29 39 61 Sixth 13 14 20 29 Top Round Robin Scorers: Hales, Eighth .'. 46 Miller, Second 33 Johnson, Second , . 30 Fullmer, Second 28 Groesbeck, Eighth 27 Miner, Ninth 27 Wheeler, Ninth 27 Clark, Sixth 23 Parks, Ninth 21 Weight, Sixth 21 Sanford, Sixth 20 |