Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-10 | Page 13 | Pioneer League Moundsmen No Mystery to Pete Hughes

Pioneer League I No Mystery to Pete Hughes 7 gt g I W M 4 r M fO I S 1 7 x A t 4 fi F s f 4 T ti Peter Pete Hughes Immediate ambition is to get up out of class C baseball Ogden Red Is Clouting to Do Date te Peter Pete Hughes Ogden Reds' Reds and one one of th the top-notch top circuit in the Pioneer league with 30 homers has bang banged d every pitcher r in the in-the the a batting balling average of over to date This is his second year of ot professional professional pro pro- baseball according to the y 24 year old od ar-od fly catcher himself who hails from Hurley N. N M. M Ills Only Sport Baseball is the only sport he has ever gone in for He discovered ered red his ability eight years ago while playing softball at Fremont high school in Los Angeles and has been been- hitting in the upper brackets ever since He first joined semipro leagues in Los In-Los Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles then went into a class D league playing at Deland Fla While at Deland in 1936 Hughes established a home run record in inthe inthe inthe the Florida State league which still stands stands and and to make sure of the Uie record he tied it in 1937 and might t have broken it had he not broken a leg first and been forced out of play for the remainder of the season Broken legs have been something something something some some- thing of ot a bugaboo for the Red right fielder In 1938 while playIng playing playing play play- ing at Muskogee Okla he ae broke a leg sliding into a base in the eighth game of the season eason which mal makes es this year practically his first in professional ball Is Right Fielder Right field has been his favorite position during his eight years in baseball both baseball both from the standpoint standpoint stand stand- standpoint point of hitting as well as play play- ing Every homer hes he's clouted this year has been over that section of the fence He is a southpaw at batting and throwing His immediate ambition is to get up out of ot class C C. As to his secret of ot hitting the horsehide he maintains that allone all allone allone one has to do is swing If It youre you're on you'll hit anything that's offered and if not you might just justas as well swing at the bad ones as the good ones he avers Salt Lake City is the only city in the league which has an entirely entirely entirely en en- suitable field Hughes contends contends contends con con- tends holding that fence lines in all parks elsewhere are not far farenough farenough farenough enough removed from home plate In this light mountain air all the fast balls being used go so far farand farand farand and wobble around so much that fielding is made e extremely emely cult One can never tell where a ball is going to come down