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Show PLAYGROUND NEWS by B. J. Santistevan The Bingham Blue Socks cinched cin-ched the third quarter championship champion-ship when they defeated Copperton Cop-perton Juniors 5-4. Rudy Pino suffered a wild streak and filled the bases, then Don Lipsey was hit on the head and this forced in the winning run. The Bingham Air Force won the third quarter championship in the Peewee league. Their consistent con-sistent hitting and fine fielding has been the determining factor in downing the Popeye club. Bill Groves, one of our finest athletes, has been home on leave for the past ten days. Bill looks fine and is enjoying the navy. He expects to finish his training soon and be assigned as a gunner on a liberty ship. He played first base on the playground Tuesday and really hit 'em. The Bingham American Legion team played a return game with Provo American Legion team Thursday at Provo and defeated them 10-3. Provo made 4 runs in the first inning off of Earl "Blackie" DeCol and he was relieved re-lieved by Dean Strinham who pitched steady ball the rest of the game. The features of the game were the pitching of Stringham and the home run hit by Dean in the first of the seventh over the right field fence with one man on. It was one of the longest hits that 1 have ever seen in the Provo park. The hitting of Bailey Santistevan San-tistevan Jr. who got 4 for 5 and Jim Bernardo who hit 4 for 6 were highlights of the game. Don Gust and Amadeo Pino are two pitchers who have yet to lose a game on the playground this year. Both pitch in the Junior Jun-ior league. Chris Ballamis, Diminutive outfielder, out-fielder, was the hero of the Frog-town-Bingham Alley Cat game last Friday. He hit a home run to break up a 14 to 14 tie. He was practically carried off the field b- his elated Frogtown teammates. The Bingham American Legion Le-gion defeated Murrav American Legion Tuesday 13-0. The batteries batter-ies for Bingham were Stringham-Roblez. Stringham-Roblez. The game was called at the end of the fifth inning. Doug Reed and George Dimas hit the ball hard for Bingham. We were to play a return game here Thursday but Murray is doubtful doubt-ful if they can field their team. They will forfeit to us and this will put us in the State American Ameri-can Legion tournament Saturday at Provo. We have drawn Provo as our first game. Next week will be a small week at our playground as far as attendance is concerned. The Bingham Boy Scouts take their annual trek to the Wigwam and this will break up our teams because be-cause practically all teams have six or seven scouts on their rosters. rost-ers. We are going to try to hold playground, however. -" |