Show Holsum Nine Takes State Baseball Loop Laurels in 1933 After Season of Thrills Hokum Bakers of Salt Lake Lako cap cap- toed lured the Utah State Baseball league title thie tle in 1933 after an exciting race which produced many close and hard hard- ought games 1 t Under the capable leadership of Ott OU Romney of Provo the l league ague enjoyed i highly successful season despite business conditions which held eld down attendance Romney suc sue Otto Birk also of ot Provo who resigned the presidency of the loop Because of business Play Twin Bills Price and Ogden 1932 members dropped bopped out of competition but the tour four remaining teams played doubleheader double double- header deader games on their home dates giving each club 36 30 games during daring the I leason eason Two teams changed their names name Holsum t taking in over the franchise fran tran chise of the Salt Lake Moose 1932 and the Green Cab crew becoming th the Royal Bakers of Salt Lake Ji Claude Engberg cri at the helm t I tI I Holsum nosed out Provo for tor first half hail honors by virtue of a a. double victory over Helper 2 14 and 2 8 3 in the final fray Cray Helper won the second half barely edging out the Holsum HoIsum nine by one half a game Helper annexed the first playoff 9 6 the game being played at Provo because because be be- cause of labor disturbances in Carbon Carbon Car Car- bon ban county With Mel Scott pitching stellar ball the Salt Lakers won the second game 4 3 at Community park and Scott again twirled them to vie vIc tory by an 8 4 count at Helper in the final battle Droubay Leading Lea Sticker SUcker Bobby Evans started as manager of the Holsum crew but gave up the reins when business took him to Cob Colo rado Ralph Jacobshagen piloted the Helper team and J J. J M M. Mick Scanlon Scan- Scan Ion lon managed the Royal team Seymour Pie Droubay of ot Royal led the league batting with 38 hits in 83 trips to the plate for tor an average of and 62 bases His closest rival was Jo Joe Myers of Helper who had 52 hits in tries for Myers led the loop in home borne runs 7 two base hits 15 total bases 88 and tied for most hits 52 with Sterl Sted Chatwin of Holsum Hosum Vacher Base Baso Thief Clug CluE Vacher of Provo led In stolen bases 13 and tied with Chatwin ant and Joe Vecchio of Helper for tor the mos most runs 34 Frank Zaccaria of Helper Franny Cowan of Holsum Fred Free Tedesco of Royal and Frank La Ln LaComb LaComb Comb and Glenn of Provo tied for most three-base three hits 4 while Hy Facer of Holsum laid down 12 sacrifices to lead in that department depart depart- ment Next to Droubay and Myers in batting batting bat bat- ting Ung came Luke Carmoni Helper Bob Howard Holsum Chatwin Chatwin Chat Chat- win Holsum Bliss Buss Hoover Provo Walbeck ck Provo Hoisum Holsum Hol Hoi sum took the team batting honors from Helper in the last lost three weeks finishing with a team average of while the thc Carbon county outfit had hac I |