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Show Sports Mere and There by Al Ablett This looks like Gemmell club's obituary for the first half: Magna 9, Gemmell 3. Before the largest crowd of the season Wednesday evening Mel Marlowe pitched his Magna mates to a convincing victory in a game which probably meant the first half championship. Mel got sweet revenge for the trouncing Gemmell Gem-mell aave him parlv in th spa- son by scoring six runs in the ninth. Wednesday he scattered nine hits and struck out eight men without issuing awalk. Bas3 pitched on fairly even terms with Mel for seven innings but in the eighth and ninth Magna Mag-na bunched their hits to score five runs. Gemmell started a rally in the ninth when Sumnicht, pinch hitting hit-ting for Savage, hit a single that netted them one run. Marlowe bore down and got the side out before any further damage resulted. re-sulted. Gemmell has one game of their first half schedule yet to play and Magna has two. The Millmen play Pinney Thursday and Helper Hel-per Friday on the ,Magna dja. mond. The Clubmen play Pinney Friday at Copperton. Anything can happen, but it is this corner's guess that Magna will win both games. Around the League: Provo beat Brigham City Wednesday night on the Peaches' diamond, 5 to 2, 'a well-played game. Brigham City is drawing crowds for their week night games. Brigham Peaches have signed Adam Bengoshea for the second sec-ond half. Adam has been playing in organized ball the last two years, and is the property ofDe-troit. ofDe-troit. He joins a team which is the youngest in the Industrial league by far. Oldest regular is Labrun at short, also manager, who is 25. Boy, they hustle. Spot Clegg, Provo left hander, had plenty of stuff Wednesday night. He had Brigham scoreless until the ninth. Helper is having trouble getting get-ting their team off work on week days. But on Sundays they have a pretty fair ball club. American Fork is going to continue con-tinue in the second half. They say they have signed some ball players.- Haven't heard who they are. Received a card from Tommy Pazell, who has arrived in Canton, Can-ton, Ohio. They put him right in the lineup. Pinney Beverage has the weakest weak-est team they have ever entered in the league. Fred Sanford, a pitcher for Pinney Pin-ney a few years back, is now pitching pit-ching at Toledo In the American association, beat the New York Yankees the other day in an exhibition ex-hibition fame. 9 to 1. He is own- ed by the St. Louis Browns. Guess Fred will be under the big top before long. George Sluga, Gemmell's hard hitting first baseman, is still limping badly. He pulled some cartilage in his knee. Gemmell misses that big bat. Frank Zaccaria had a nice writeup in the Salt Lake Telegram Tele-gram last week. His record shows Zac to be a great hitter as well as home run king. His stolen base record is as good as any in the league for the past six years. Zac has always been a great fielder and he hustles every minute. Sammy Oliver pulled the iron man stunt in the double header against Helper, pitching and winning win-ning both games. He allowed but 11 hits in two games and struck out 15 men. He has won 6 and lost 1. Bob Detmers has five wins and no losses pitching for Gemmell. Darrell "Robbie" Robertson of Gemmell has hit safely in 17 ball games this season. Say, this league has some bang-up bang-up shortstops, Labrun of Brigham, Brig-ham, Call of Magna, Tezak of Pinney, Berg of Provo and Babcock Bab-cock of Gemmell, everyone a good fielder and hitter. If American Fork strengthens, the second half should be a honey. The league is having trouble keeping umpires. It looks like President Bob Bullock will have to sit down on some of the boys. I'll be seing you in the second half. Ai |