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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt The state tournament is over, with Provo winning the championship champ-ionship in class A and Wasatch high of Hebcr City wearing the crown in class B. During Provo's parade to the championship that team beat East high of Salt Lake, also Davis and in the finals they downed Box Elder of Brigham City. In none of these games were the boys from the Garden City pressed. In Weight and Whipple they had two of the best boys in the meet. Along with their team mates they kept the strings hot. Box Elder beat Weber We-ber in the semifinals by one point and this game probably took something out of the boys from Brigham. But on no day were they as good a team as Provo. Wasatch beat Murray in the class B finals 32 to 24. It was just a case of too much Mur-dock. Mur-dock. Those brothers put on a show for the crowd in every game. Kent, the center, was high point man for the tournament, tour-nament, averaging 15 points a game. Harvey, the guard was a great defense man and could score from away out. Kent was the unanimous selection se-lection for state honors and Harvey made most of the teams picked. I understand they have one more year in high school. Murray had a good team, big and fast, but on their last night they were off a little at the hoop. It was a great tournament, playing play-ing to overflow crowds every day. My guess is that they could have sold 50,000 tickets had they the buildinir to Dut them in. Npxt year we hope to see a team from Bingham In this great high school event. My guess is that we will. Baseball reared its head over the horizon for the first time this spring. Bob Bullock, president pres-ident of the Industrial league, has called a meeting for Friday Fri-day night in Commissioner Fred Tedesco's office in Salt Lake. Plans for the coming year will be discussed and they will try and ascertain how many teams will be ready to go next summer. I understand that the proposed air base team is out and Brigham City tells me that they don't see how they can possibly gather a good team. The Salt Lake Sheriffs are seeking a franchise, and George Beckstead, who handles these affairs for the sheriff's office has gathered together a good. club .Several other sponsors spon-sors in Salt Lake are interested interest-ed in putting a team into the fast semipro loop, so there should be no trouble in getting enough teams. What Gemmell can gather in the way of players I don't know. They have lost "Pop" Griffin, Don Phipps (who b" the way has signed with the Chicago Cubs) and Melvin Brookie, the big kid catcher. Brook is now in the marines. Two of the furlough-ed furlough-ed soldiers look pretty good: John "Dub" Zollers and Steve "Torpedo" Gulick, who are catcher-outfielder and infielder, respectively. re-spectively. Ray Alves, a very fine fielding first baseman, is in Bingham. Haven't heard whether or not he is going out for baseball. Ray would help any team in the league. lea-gue. It is certain that Gemmell will need pitching. Bass says he is through, leaving Sammy Oliver as the only holdover. Sammy is a horse for work, but he will need help. Gemmell is as well off as any of them, so we will see. No question ques-tion but what we need baseball in this community. What with further reduction in gas rationing ration-ing that will probably be the only recreation we have. The boys in the service want baseball to go on. That has been proven by every ev-ery poll taken. So here is hoping the Industrial League sees fit to continue, even if they have only four teams. The last round of the Gemmell Round Robin bowling tournament was rolled Saturday and Monday. Mon-day. George Sluga rolled a hot 870 series from scratch to take firset. Others high were Joe Neg-lich, Neg-lich, second; Larry Cotton, third, and Jim Abplanalp, fourth. Sunday there will be a once across tournament with the handicap han-dicap to be based on the Round Robin scores for those that were in that competition and the rest to receive 60 per cent of the difference dif-ference between their average and two hundred. So until next week, a good bye is a war bond. Al O |