| Show 4 Training the Juniors J bij FRANK K BAKER BAKER- Watch the sports sport that arc are fos fostering well defined Junior competition if you would know which will have the livest program five XIv to ten years cars from now I have little patience with the veterans of any sport who bemoan the lessening Interest in their game and still dont don't turn their hands to Interest new talent in the sport Seldom does the individual who takes up a R. sport after hes he's old enough to be a a. grandpa get anywhere in its It co competitive field fJeld Its It's the youngsters who acquire skill long before they re reach ch their majority who prove the real stars There is George Geore Schneiter the Ogden Orden golf golt professional for ex cx- x ample Geo e Won the state junior open championship four year yean ago Today he Is 1 one of or the states state's foremost players He lie was Utah's only representative in n the tho national open and ind he be turned in a creditable credit credit- able score against the nations nation's more touted performers performer Schneiter wouldn't be near the golfer he ho is I today u if It h had d not b been n for the youthful experience he had In the state junior open and other junior competition a few years Jears ago ao Present Baseball Stars Learned as Juvenile I Golf provides one of at the b best st examples of at a well defined Junior program With the game adapting itself to high school co competition too it is outgrowing the stage tage where only the caddies took part in the Junior tournaments Alex professional at the Country y club has found gratifying gratl tying success with a weekly cl class for sons son and daughters of ot club mem mem- bers hera When these Juniors grow Up their youthful training will do much to improve the general brand of membership play even if only a handful of Dt them become tournament known knO Baseball is constantly proving the value of junior unior t competition A big percentage of the boys cavorting ont on t the city's baseball diamonds now were in the junior leagues only a few seasons ago Five years ago The Telegram sponsored a Junior Baseball league in which the star all-star selections were as follows Herman Franks Harry Harrr Turner George vich Sid Lance Blaine Blame Sanderson Frank Branting Eddie Givan Roy Phillips Gordon Bates Clarence Evans a and d Gerald Rugg How many of those names are familiar to present day fans tans Evans has hu reached the Industrial lea league e and is playing a a. sweet tweet game Arne Arned at d first base and doing mi mighty well with the willow in his first season cason with the faster company Franks was Hollywood wood property in the Coast league for a couple of af years ears and ha has h been with a 3 barnstorming club this season seMOn In the midwest Lance Turner Givan and Bates Bales a are moro more or less leu popular for their diamond exploits but they wouldn't be II if 11 minded baseball agencies Arendes hadn't made it po possible ible for lor them to learn the game as u kids Beginners Beginners' League Promises To 10 Build Players for 1938 Francis Decker president of the Independent Baseball leagues Is Js Isto to be congratulated for his work with U the e new Beginners' Beginners loop which he has hu organized this summer With no recompense except the thrill of working with boys and watching them develop Decker Deckel spends hours each week directing the activities of the boys boys' league Few Pew of the boys have ever played on a regular ball club before That's the purpose of the organization to to de develop clop new talent Players who have been with an organized club of oC some sort only one season are eligible and this adds a bit of experience and steadiness to the clubs iThe i The Federation of Amateur Athletics which will wUl ultimately profit by this work when the youngsters outgrow their present surroundings and the city department cannot be too cooperative with sucha such sucha L a a program U Its It's the sort of work that insures the future of baseball Y Too Often Develop Clique and Exclude Youngsters The timers old in individual sports snorts such uch as horseshoes bowling g trapshooting trap- trap shooting hooting and tennis are arc often too content to vie against one another in L I their own little clique to the exclusion of the youngsters I When Wheeling W. W Va recently defaulted on its invitation to the national horseshoe pitching tournament Salt Lake could have had the event for the asking But no there is only a handful of oC enthusiasts who would be Interested in bringing such an event to Utah despite the fact tact that the city maintains a a municipal set of courts at Liberty park which have been described as one of the best layouts in the nation The be veteran shoe pitchers could multiply the enthusiasts rapidly with witha I a properly conducted program for Juniors Beginners feel they have little chance against the vets veth woo who wo throw so many ringers so they turn to other sports |
