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Show ball suits in' semipro leagues of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, before he came to the old copper league with the Apex team. In 1929 he caught on with the Utah Copper ball club and has been working for the same company com-pany since his retirement from the grand American sport. Mr. Davis is the father of four children child-ren and his sons, Joe, the eldest, played football at University of Southern California, and Burt is all-conference center for the U. of U. Slhoirits By Ken Shulsen Introducing former aces of the iporti world, now living or working in Bingham. D. K. DAVIS, known to his friends as "Dick" or "Daka", was born in Bountiful, graduated from the local high school and in 1916 entered the University of Utah where he became locally famous as a baseball pitcher and basketball player. After his second sec-ond year at Utah Dick was picked pick-ed up by the Sacramento baseball base-ball company to perform in the AA class coast league until his enlistment in the if. S. infantry, where he continued his baseball career as the number one pitcher pitch-er on the all-west coast army team. After the war Dick signed with St. Anthony, Idaho, in the old class B Yellowstone league. After Af-ter three years he was sold to the Sioux City, Iowa, western league for one year as a star-studded star-studded pitcher. In 1924 he became be-came the property of the N. Y. Giants, but when illness dealt him a blow the N. Y. club leased nun to the San Francisco Seals-After Seals-After two successful years as a winning elbower the Giant3 recalled re-called him to their Nashville, 1 enn., class A club. He was with them when he decided to give up the big leagua. Soon after he attempted to settle down in his home state, the sports urge caught up with him and he wore several base- i |