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Show BINGHAM WILL ENTER LEGION TOURNEY FRIDAY Bailey J. Sanlistevan The following boys will go to Ogden Friday, July 31, to play in the Utah state American Legion Le-gion baseball tournament, which will run through the following day and night: Howard Ishimatsu, CF; Robert Rob-ert Siddoway, LF; Jim Epis, RF; Don Crump, 3B; K. Nelson. SS; Carl Barrett, 2B; Glen Sheen, IB; and pitcher; Douglas Reed, IB; James Ballamis, catcher; William Lopez, pitcher; Billy Wells, pitcher; Dean Stringham, pitcher; Gordon Buckle and Del-mar Del-mar Schick, substitute infielders; , Jimmy Brown, outfield- The American Legion team has practiced diligently for the past two weeks but as yet no pitcher has been found that one could term a winner. All the pitchers lack control and are too young to be classed as average pitchers. The catching department also wcks experience, ine inneia should measure up with any in the tournament and the outfield compares favorably with outfields out-fields of competing Legion teams. It may be that we will break up our outfield to pitch either Glen Sheen or Don Crump. We have played but one game this year" which we lost, Brigham City, 11 to 8. The eight Legion teams competing com-peting in the tournament are Brigham City, Provo, Rotary club and Bingham in the top bracket. Lower bracket includes Ogden, Murray, Helper and St. George. It looks like a cinch for either Ogden or Helper, while we ar bracketed in the toughest bracket brac-ket of the two. We play Provo at 12:30 noon Friday (today). Ogden Og-den plays Murray, Helper meets St. George, Brigham City tangles with Rotary club. The tournament tourna-ment will be played on the single defeat elimination system with games on Friday. 4 The four winners will play an early forenoon and afternoon game Saturday, with the finals that night under lights. All games will be held at Affleck (Pioneer league) park. The Bingham team has been handicapped this year in that practically all our boys have been working all summer and only their willingness to practice during dur-ing the evenings has made a team possible. As said before, we lack pitching pitch-ing and catching, and that is two,- ? thirds of the battle. The winner of this tournament will go to. Stockton, Calif., to play" in the western sectional tournament held between" the winners pi the following states: Utah, Nevada.' Arizona, and California, about the middle of August. |