Show H I SALT 1 LAKE AKE WINS WS FIRST LEAGUE PENNANT PENNANT- IN ORGANIZED BASEBALL 4 BECOME PUBLIC LOCAL BEES COMMUNITY HAS HASK PROPERTY FI FINE E NEW PARK K FOR GAMES Lea Leads s Be Bees s to to Second Half Bobby First Tl Title le BOIse Boi Wins While rot int t taking taking- in an abundance of at gate receipts the Salt Lake base baseball ball balI club encountered more than usual success during 1928 Bobby Coltrin and his scrappy warriors warrior brought ought tho the lo local al community it its first pennant In the history of local hoi organized baseball For everal eral years a a. local entry made an on and andoff andoff andoff off showing showing- in the old Union asso asso- elation Later on the Salt Lake team made a strong bid for top honors in the Pacific Coast league but fell feIl short at every thrust The Bees sought the U-I U title for the jj next several campaigns and finally turned the trick in the 1928 sea season n. n While the team was making a strong showing showing- the ownership passed from private hands to those of the community and the old grandstands were moved to public property The organization is now one of public enterprise with H. 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L i guiding the destinies and owns a brand brant new community park SIX CLUBS START SEASON The season started out with Si six clubs participating but at the halfway half haf way mark Twin Falls FaIls and Idah Falls found it Impossible to carry orand or orand orand and their teams broke up to job the other four clubs and teams outside outside out out- side this circuit The addition of these players to the other U-I U entries entries en en- tries at the half made the brand o 0 ball the best exhibited here since the da days s 's of ot the Pacific Coast league Boise edged the Bees out by t f two-game two margin in the first half but the locals strengthened by th addition of Johnny Walters Valters go ahead of the field in the secant half halt and finished with a n. comfortable comfortable comfort comfort- comfortable able ahead of Pocatello o The Coltrin tribe battled Harrt Harr O'Neill's Boise Senators for the all all- season supremacy and took fou tilts out of five live to become the seasons seasons season's seasons season's sea sea- sons son's champs FIVE TIE UP WITH COAST LEAGUE Six SL hustling managers kept thing pretty lively in the circuit the firs half Coltrin of ot the Bees oxen ONeil of Boise Roche of Po Pocatello atello Bake of ot Ogden Leard of Twin Falls an ant Maloney of Idaho Falls Fulls had the thel teams in there fighting But Butth U th last two dropped out as their team left the race and the first fo to foe teams staged a merry battle for tor th bunting in the second half Five of ot the tho clubs were connect with Pacific Coast league San Francisco had strings string on Sal Lake Oakland on Ogden Los Angeles Angeles An An- Angeles geles on Pocatello Hollywood 01 ox Boise and the San Francisco MIssions ills MIs- is- is on Idaho Falls Twin Fall FaU was not affiliated JOHNNY WALTERS BEST ALL AROUND These same samo Coast league club have drawn valuable timber Umber to ak akin akin in the construction of their heir clubs Many Ian seasoned players will be lx turned over o to the more highly organized organized organized or or- league for use next nest spring Salt Lake delivers Walters Valters Donovan Donovan Donovan Dono Dono- van and Davis to the Seals Camilli camilli Ca Ca- milli select first sacker was made madea a free agent and has joined the Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sac Sac- outfit Tony Bernard Bernardo signs up with the Hollywood od Stars From the point of individual Indi attainment at at- Johnn Johnny Walters allaround allaround all all- around man nian of the Bees stands out ou above the rest of ot the field Eddi Coleman Twin Falls Fails and Boise outfielder outfielder outfielder out out- fielder led the circuit in m clouting with a average three point point- above Walters The chief value 0 o the Salt Lake iron man however howe lay In his superb twirling ability His record showed fifteen wins against three losses for a season seasons season's average of ot Boise led in the hitting department depart ment fluent with an season all-season average of ot Twin Falls piled up a ae an average ot of but was not ti the thereal real leader after dropping out a athe at the tho half haIr Salt Lake followed Boise Bois with Pocatello came next with wit 9 Ogden and Idaho Falls Falli 74 Excellent fielding fielding- records made b by leaders of the various po CamilUs Camillis showing at first base ase was one of the features of or the season He came caroe through with th tM grand average a of ot Parker ha haan had hadan hadan an average of at second Yen Ver se go at third and Hammack W was the leading shortstop from front th the fielding standpoint with Jensen Pocatello outfielder l Id Ie- his department with Baker Bake Ogden manager fielded to te top the list of backstops while Bart Ban Smith Pocatello Pocatello worked the tho field perfectly In seventeen seventeen seven se teen games gazules for a 1000 average average- FUTURE PLANS UNDETERMINED Whether or not the loop will consist consist con con- gist of four teams at the start C ol It the 1929 season remains to be seen Rumors have it that Great Fand Falls FaUS and Butte arc are in f favor for or of ot entering nines times All in lit all the t type pe of or play pIa In t th last st season was as pretty ct classy t ta tor a n. league not of class A calib i Improvement In the tho type trpe of P pW plat has been considerable though U tW tilt fInancial bases bae of or the tho teams are n fl secure |