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Show Playground Activities By Bailey Sanlistevan, Director Yukro Ishimatsu injured himself him-self Monday evening in Legion practice when he crashed into the wire fence in right field and received re-ceived some painful puncture wounds on his right leg. We hope he will be able to play in the Legion Le-gion tournament this week-end. Ray Montoya has turned in some well-pitched games for the senior boys this summer. His battery mate, Gavino Aguayo, looks like the most promising catcher on the playgrqund. Jt was just too bad that these two boys could hot obtain birth certificates cer-tificates in time to register for Legion baseball play. Delmar Schick and Tokio Mo-chizuki Mo-chizuki haVe been hitting the ball hard and turning in some fine fielding games. Donnie Gust, miniature second sec-ond baseman for the Bingham juniors, is playing great ball. Donnie is going to be a great fielder and hitter if he continues his baseball. Cal Crump, George Dimas, Cal Nelson and Byron Burmeister are all fine looking hitters. These boys are young and are future Legion ball players. They play for the "Bangtails' 'in the junior league. John Russell Frazier is a much improved ball player this summer. sum-mer. The same may be said of Bobby Blakp. These lads play with the seniors. Dusty Ford 'of Salt Lake City has been playing playground ball all week and says there's nothing like it as far as he is concerned. K. Nelson and Don Crump have really been hitting the ball hard this week. Let's hope they hit that way in the tournament this week-end. Jimmy Plastino, who is built like "Ping Bodie" used to be, was at the playground last week. He hits hard and is a fast and good fielder. Gordon Buckle, Kent Stillman and. Bailey Santistevan Jr. are showing improvement in their baseball ability this summer. Copperton Juniors are pressing the "Bangtails" for this quarter championship. The Bingham Juniors are the hard luck boys of the junior circuit. cir-cuit. This fine team generally leads every team until the last inning' or so and then a few bobbles bob-bles and misplays put the boys behind the "8" ball Our playground crowds have not been too large during the past week. Between 85 and 100 boys continue to brave the heat o fday. ' Bingham Boy Scouts will be taken to the Wigwam next week and this will lower our crowd Most of the boys in the playground play-ground are Scouts. The playground play-ground closes August 7. Our Legion Le-gion tournament is over this week and we always .close . the first week in August. We , have played steadily since July 1. Amadeo Pino .left fielder for the Bingham Juniors, has made (Continued on page eight) PLAYGROUND ACTIVITIES (Continued from page one) many brilliant catches in the outfield out-field for his team this quarter. The Bingham Meat Market and J. C. Penney team are battling batt-ling it out for championship of the PeeWee league. Mickey Culleton Is playing a great game at shortstop for the Bangtails. He is a good hitter and great fielder. Billy Boren and Earl DeCol are two promising left handed pitchers. Both have good form and possess strong arms for little fellows. Douglas Reed, who has been working at Oakley this summer, came back this week to play with the Legion team in the state tournament. tour-nament. Salvador Aguayo is another promising catcher in the junior league. , He and his brother, Ga-vino, Ga-vino, are the two best receivers in their respective leagues. " |