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Show PLAYGROUND NEWS by B. J. Santistevan The Bingham Air Force defeated defeat-ed the Popeye club, 29-16, Tuesday. Tues-day. It was a sweet victory for the air force and their second win over the Popeye club this year. Don Lipsey, hard hitter of the Frogtown Nine, is recuperating from an appendectomy performed perform-ed two weeks ago. He is anxious to get back into the lineup. Victor Roblez, Kenneth Hall, Marvin Pullan, Billy Boren, George Geo-rge Dimas, Daniel Chavez were on the playground Monday, peppering pep-pering and touching up on some of the finer points of the game. All play with the American Legion Le-gion team. Last Friday Bingham American Amer-ican Legion post defeated Provo American Legion, 8 to 7. The game was won in the last inning. Bingham was trailing 6-3 in the last of the ninth. A home run by Dean Siringham, with one of them a squeeze play, finally tied the score. Then Cal Crump singled, scoring scor-ing Jimmy Bernardo with the winning run. The following players are registered re-gistered for American Legion play: Victor Roblez, Dean String-ham, String-ham, Earl DeCol, Bailey Santistevan, Santis-tevan, George Dimas, Jimmy Bernardo, Jack Knudsen, Billy Boren, Douglas Reid, Dick Johnson, John-son, Kenneth Hall, Byron Bur-mister, Bur-mister, Wayne Ray, Cal Crump, Don Stoddard. A state tournament will be held in Provo the last of this month. The winner will represent repre-sent Utah in the western sectional section-al tournament to be held at Henderson, Hen-derson, Nev. All games will be night' games and the winners of Utah, California, Arizona and Nevada will be represented. Rudy Pino turned in a well-pitched well-pitched ball game Monday and did what every pticher in the Junior league has tried to do all year beat the Bingham Blue Socks. His pitching and his team's hard hitting, their defensive defen-sive plan and determination beat the Bingham Blue Socks 7-2. It was a sweet victory for Copper-ton. Copper-ton. The Bingham Air Force is leading the Pewee league with four wins and no losses so far this quarter. They have taken the lead which has been held for two quarters by the Popeye club. Thursday the American Legion played Provo a return game. Next Tuesday we will play Murray American Legion post at Murray the first of the three game series to see who represents repre-sents this district at the state tournament in Provo next Saturday Satur-day and Sunday. Murray has a very good ball club, it is reported, report-ed, and they believe they can take us. The second game will be played here July 27 and if a third is necessary it will be played play-ed the next day. The game here will start at six o'clock. There will be no playground Monday, July 24. Practically all the boys are planning to go to Salt Lake City for the celebration, celebra-tion, picnicking or fishing. |