Show FRANK K BAKER BAKER- Between en its showers for May flowers and its spring training camps for baseball players April is a month of ol hope hope hope-a a month of venture that will carry several ambitious ambitious ambitious ambi ambi- Utah youngsters away to foreign diamonds where they will seek to earn places in organized baseball Gene Fish pitcher for the Gemmell club from Bingham In the State Industrial league last summer is the latest of ol these youthful prospects to get a chance to demonstrate his ability with organized ball He has been offered a tryout with the New Orleans Pelicans Pelicans Pelicans Peli Peli- cans through representatives of the American league club at Cleveland which owns the New Orleans club The contract offer came to Fish from C. C C. C of Cedar Rapids Iowa and offers otters the B Bingham star transportation transportation trans trans- por and all expenses with a substantial guarantee if he makes the grade Seymour Pie Droubay of Wasatch Oil who had a tryout with Cleveland in the past two years has helped contact the youngster Twenty years cars old six feet tall Fish was one of the C successful in the Industrial loop last summer He Jle doesn't throw many curves Found they were hard on his arm Can get up quite a bit of steam on his fast fastone fastone fastone one and has bas made a lot of progress in developing his his' control Big league pilots will probably turn a skeptical cy eyet eye at t Fish for a while because he weighs not more than 1 6 pounds despite his six-foot six frame A husky stature is abig a abig 1 big asset to one who must face the daily grind of organized organized organ organ- baseball as was so plainly stressed by the hundreds of f dollars the N New w York Yankees spent in trying to pack more beef onto the frame of on one V Vernon Lefty Gomez The Yankees had a dentist rebuild Vernons Vernon's teeth They had doctors prescribe weight-building weight menus and saw to it that he be got lots of milk both in season and during the winter months Lefty's success proved the value of the Yankee No doubt Colonel Ruppert would buy a whole dairy if he thought it would develop another Gomez Used to Get Big LeadOn LeadOn Lead LeadOn On Fish He Says That's All Finished Close ob observers of ba baseball once felt that Fish was bad badly I rattled the moment somebody got on base bac He says those days arc are gone In explanation he hc says his stance on the mound was all wrong that the runners got a big lead on him and arid I that until he corrected this fault he was worried the moment a player land landed cd on first base Daka Dako Davis the Veteran of many baseball wars helped put Fish right on the matter of standing when men were on the paths Doty Bush Al Bailey and several of the other vet vet- 1 10 1 I II I r Ih I erans trans with the Gemmell club have helped the youngster with their friendly tips coached the boy in fri high hish school as well as playing on the same club with him in the Industrial league For two years now Fish has worked on the thc hill hillIn hillIn hillIn In the copper mine at Bingham His llis father died in 1928 and he his two brothers and one sister were orphaned orphan cd within the past year when his mother died The family recently moved to Salt Lake City and this youngster of Irish French-Irish extraction piles out of bed before 5 o'clock in the morning to drive to the mine for a 7 o'clock shift on the da days s 's he is working Early hours are the least concern for the young fel fel- fel- fel low uI iNcan Ican can hardly wait until we can start practice he says This quiet enthusiasm is a sharp contrast to the lazy-appearing lazy attitude he takes in going to and from the mound Hes He's a pretty good hitter too and he has hs proved he can really bear down with his fast ball when when- properly properly prop prop- crI erly fired |