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Show Bingham Sends Utah Title Holders, Legion Baseball To Las Vegas Regional Meet Regional American Legion Junior Baseball tournament will be staged at Henderson, Nov., just outside Las Vegas, on August 13-14-15-1(5. Bingham's team, champions of Utah play, will leave Salt Lake City at 10:15 a.m. Saturday on the Los Angeles limited to compete with teams representing New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. Accompanying the 15-members registered for play will be Coach Bailey J. Santistevan, 0. R. Warner of Post No. 30 and Mascot Don Gust. The group will arrive at Las Vegas at 10 p.m. Saturday. Drawings for play are expected to be made early Sunday. Coach Santistevan says that his present information leads him to believe that games will be played play-ed at ni"ht. Since there are but four teams entered and the tourney tour-ney is slated for four days, it is likely that a double elimination or Hound Robin type tourney is being arranged. Bingham's team appreciated support given them and the fine attendance at the benefit game last Friday. While the boys played play-ed ragged ball, losing to Provo 16-10, there was little incentive to put forth any great effort since they had beaten Provo previously previous-ly three times out of four. Coach Santistevan gave every boy on the crew a chance to play in the seven inning game. Making the trip will be Victor Roblez, catcher; Dean Stringham .and Earl DeCol, pitchers; Bailey Santistevan Jr., first base; George Geo-rge Dimas, second base; Jimmy Bernardo, short stop; Jack Knudsen, Knud-sen, third base; Billy Boren, left field; Douglas Reed, center field; Cal Crump, right field; Dick Johnson, Wayne Ray, Byron Burmester, outfielders; Don Stoddard, substitute infielder; Kenneth Hall, utility. The Bingham team is in fair shape and determined to make a good showing at Las Vegas. Arizona Ari-zona usually has a fine team and is expected to be a strong contender. con-tender. Winners ut Lns Vegas will be sent to Miles City, Mont., as entrant en-trant in the sectional tournament which will bring together winning win-ning teams of the western states. |