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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Summer didn't last long, did it? But this has been the best spring we have had in Bingham for a long time. The baseball teams have taken advantage of it and Manager Les Sumnicht tells me he has the boys ready tcf go. Gemmell opens the season in Provo next Sunday. Manager Lob Collins of the Timps says he has a number of men who look plenty good. The Utah Industrial league should have its best year. Every town in the league has a big war industry. Because of gas rationing, ration-ing, the workers will have to have some form of recreation. I think it will be baseball. Big time wrestling came back to Salt Lake last Tuesday night when 5000 fans crowded the fair ground coliseum to see world's champion Bill Longston beat Sandor Szabo in two out of three falls. "Sugarhouse" Bill has taken tak-en on a lot of polish since he left Utah. When Bill was around here he was a big, good looking boy that liked to wrestle. Since he went east he has become a finished workman. Longston has shown in the Gemmell club a number of times. Softball, that is the organized kind, has bowed out of Salt Lake for the duration. Both parks in the city, that were devoted to the game, have been turned over ov-er to the armed services. Salt Lake for a number of years was classed as one of the leading soft-ball soft-ball centers of America, with nationally na-tionally known stars being imported im-ported to play for various teams. "King Kong Kelly" got more money than most players in the big leagues. The amateur fight game has been making a great comeback in Utah the past couple of years. I was down to Provo April 23 to referee a card for the benefit of the army athletic equipment fund and about 1500 fans turned out. The show was sponsored by the Victory Service league and Ken Shulsen of Bingham was the match maker. Ken did a swell job and it was a great show. They (Continued on page eight) gave up one hit jn TT he worked and V)h showed plenty JS poise of a vet Ja? ?' have something SV . Clyde Nichols LhiJ m fine shape a dl Clyde formerly 8,L& ency to fight th A?1 looks like h ehas Sunday he handfcd es and he did i leaguer. Clyde with power at the 3 doesn't go into the he will develop fJf Russell Gust to , kl after Clyde, and hL?e in good shape dnd1 The regulars looked . one seemed to httVe J 1 I On the Pinnev ni Peterson is z&Zi img prospect to eo" .many a moon. Only n ' and growing, he hJj' I watched h,m if:v' ing for South high Hl then. Since he has out For a left hander he ' lent control. He struck, or five men i theT he worked. Remembe , Peterson. j Tedesco has another c . likes, a right hander a see enough 0f him tot ,he has. The rest of I about the same as i i Wayne Tucker, his finu and Earl Owens wilft i the hitting. So untfi I game, I'll be seeing 0l .the town pump. ' AL o SPORTS HERE AND THERE (Continued from page one) realized about $600 for the fund. The next show is to be held in West Jordan some time around the middle of the month. Gemmell club played Pinney Beverage of Salt Lake an exhibition exhi-bition game on the Copperton field last Sunday and lost 4 to 1. Both managers used the game as a test for their newly-assembled teams. Some of the fellows came through with flying colors. On the local squad Keith Poulson, the rookie right bander, band-er, looked plenty good. He only |
