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Show PLAYGROUND NEWS by B. J. Santistevan About 75 boys were at the playground play-ground Monday. Thus was a much larger group than expected, as practically all the boys between 12 and 15 years of age are at the Wigwam with their respective Scout troops. Well, we again won the American Am-erican Legion, Department of Utah, Junior Baseball championship champ-ionship of the state and by so doing won the right to represent repre-sent Utah in the Western sectional sec-tional tournament. The boys played hard and the trip they gained is the finest prize offered offer-ed in athletics in this state. The boys travel first class and are put up in the best hotels. As yet it has not been definitely determined where the sectional section-al tournament will be held. Denver, San Diego, Stockton, Calif., Las Vegas, Nev.-, or Miles City, Mont., are the prospective pros-pective sites. Wherever it is held it means a real trip and train ride via pullman and dining din-ing car service for the boys. This year's Legion team is the youngest team I have ever coached. coach-ed. Of the 15 registered players all but four will return to the team next summer. Dean Stringham, String-ham, Douglas Reed, Jim Bernardo Ber-nardo and Dick Johnson. If we can locate a pitcher for next year our club should be reasonably strong. Our chances in the sectional tournament are not too good as we have only one pitcher. But I am sure that all the boys will give their best and that is all one can expect of 15 or 16 year old boys. I am certain that all the b-s will have the trip of their life and that they will be well entertained and treated. Friday at 5:30 o'clock we have arranged a practice and benefit bene-fit game with the Provo team. An admission charge of 50 cents will be made per oer-son oer-son in order to raise money to help the Bingham team on their trip. All clubs that come to the tournament are well taken tak-en care of by the communities and towns that send them and there is no reason why this can't be done by our own community. com-munity. Our recreational program pro-gram costs the community practically nothing. So far this year close to 100 boys have been cared for daily and only $65 has been spent for equipment. equip-ment. The Copperton Cardinals defeated de-feated the Bingham naval air Scouts Tuesday 29 to 28. It was a sweet victory for the small Copperton boys. I had the pleasure of having a very interesting chat with Tom Downey of San Diego, Calif., a former big league ball player row scouting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. I first met Tom at San Diego in 1939 when ur American Ameri-can Legion team played there. He was impressed with the playing play-ing and hitting of Jack Knudsen and Bailey Santistevan Jr., two boys whom he thought had possibilities possi-bilities because of their size. o |