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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt Officials of the Utah Industrial league held a meeting Saturday night to discuss plans for the coming season. They found that the only problem confronting them was gasoline. Each director in attendance said his respective team was ready to go if the gas problem could be solved. Provo, Magna-Garfield, Pinney Beverage, Bever-age, Brigham City and Gemmell club are the entries. Ogden was represented at the meet by Bill McCorey, manager of the Ogden Reds the past few years, who wanted a franchise to be run independently independ-ently or to represent one of the Ogden. war plants. He gave the directors assurance that he would field a team that would be a' credit to the league both in ability and appearance. The board voted to give their final answer at the next meeting, to be held late this month. Helper was represented but stated that they would like to withdraw this year with the right to retain their franchise for the future. Approval was given and their franchise rights were retained. re-tained. The Gemmell club was represented repre-sented by Howard (Mickey) Buchman. who was elected athletic manager when Robert Detmers transferred to Las Vegas, Nev. Mickey, as How-' ard is known, should make a good man in his new position. He has been a sports fan of the first water since he was a kid and has always kept in touch with all Gemmell sports. He is enthusiastic about his work, and has this advantage: he likes a winner. I know that the managers of the different teams will find Mickey cooperative coop-erative at all times. Last Sunday was the final day in the state Round Robin bowling bowl-ing tournament and Bingham made the best showing of any town, outside Salt vLake, , We placed a man In the first ten in every division. Tommy Ablett won the class C title in a walk, and his brother, Bill Ablett, after af-ter a bad start, due to the fact he has not bowled for a year, came in strong at the finish to cop sixth place in C. Jimmie Ab-planalp Ab-planalp was fifth in class B. Jimmie Jim-mie was steady all through the tournament. Had he got hot one night he would have copped first. Frank Zaccaria was seventh sev-enth in class B, coming up the last night with a 1237 series. I don't believe that there are ten men in the state that can beat Zaccaria in any class. He had a couple of bad nights. Yours truly finished seventh in class A. Gemmell club basketball team opens in the Intermoun-lain Intermoun-lain AAU tournament against Fort Douglas, a team they have taken a couple of times in league lea-gue play. They should have little trouble getting by the first round. However, from there on the road will be rough. The BYU team which was beaten beat-en by Wyoming for the conference con-ference championship has entered en-tered under the name of the Utah County Steelers. The Utah Aggies are in under the sponsorship of a Logan firm. Eckers Studio has the best of the Utah team, along with a couple of seasoned AAU performers. per-formers. So this should be the best tournament in the history of the Intermountain AAU. As soon as the Women's State Round Ro'bin is over, dates for the Gemmell club mixed double classic will be set. We are beginning to wonder what is going to be done about recreation for our children this summer. In wartime, juvenile delinquency becomes a big problem in every community. So far, Bingham has one of the best records of any town in the state, both for wise provision of playground facilities for children and a low children's delinquency problem. Considering Consid-ering our local problems and conditions, I would say we have done as well as any place in the nation. I think our summer recreation program has played a big part in making this record possible. Bailey J. Santistevan, coach and coordinator at Bingham high school, has been in charge of the playground at Copperton for many years. I don't know the exact figures, but I do know that you could go to the Copperton playground any morning and see two or three hundred boys taking tak-ing part in games and showing a spirit of sportsmanship and fair play that is typical of the American Amer-ican boy if he is given half a chance. You fake this opportunity for play away from a boy and his energy is diverted into some less healthful direction. So we, as a comunity, should see that our children have a chance to enjoy childhood. Remember, Re-member, our boys and girls aren't children long. Let's give their problems serious thought. What do you think? If you agree with the above, let's start work on a program for the coming summer. . Al |