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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Brigham City meets Gemmell Club here Sunday. The Industrial league is having hav-ing its best season from the standpoint of attendance. They are packing them in from all over the league. The Air Base team has added a lot of color, and have proved to be a big drawing card. Rumor has it that Joe DiMaggio is to join them and last week's Sporting News said that Don Trower, the San Francisco shortstop is to be stationed at the Salt Lake Air Base. If these outstanding players join them, the Wings will certainly have a swell team. This fellow Green of the Wings, who hit two home runs against Gemmell Wednesday, played for Memphis in the Southern league before entering the army. "Red" McGann of the Wings played in the Texas league last season. So you can see the Air Base boys will be tough all the way. Magna-Garfield. first-half winners are having a hard time getting started this half. I guess the team has had a let down, because they were certainly cer-tainly keyed up for the first-half. first-half. The Millmen dropped their second straight game to Provo Wednesday, 8 to 5. Magna Mag-na will look a lot different when Call, their shortstop gets back in the line-up. He is out with a sprained foot. Pinney lost their first game in the second-half to the Wings, but it was more of an oratorical contest than a ball game. Les Lemon, Gene Ludlow and Manager Man-ager "Feets" Tedesco got the old heave-ho for getting too hot with the umpires. Brigham City started the second-half by licking Magna last Sunday night 13 to 3. Singleton, Sing-leton, the boy the Peaches picked up from the defunct Ogden club, held the Millmen to nine well scattered hits and in the clutch, he had plenty. Bobby Musulas, the kid second baseman for Brigham City had the greatest night I have ever seen a ball player have. At the plate he got four hits in five times up, one of them a home run. In the field he handled 12 chances without a slip, and ' five of those chances were sensational plays. The fellows on Bobby's team tell me he orders or-ders his coffee in a cup without with-out handles, so it will be a tough chance. I understand the league is going go-ing to pick an all-star team to play Magna-Garfield, first-half winner, however there is a possibility pos-sibility that an all-star team from the north will play an all-star all-star team from the south. So being a fool-hardy soul, here is my selection and why, in case the all-stars play the Millmen: Tucker of Pinney on first. This boy is the best fielder in the league lea-gue and he is just coming into his own as a hitter- Musulas of Brigham City on second. Here is a boy that can do everything. He can hit them, go get them and slide both ways. On shortstop, Berge of Provo is my choice. Glen can field and he hit 436 for the first fifteen games. Billy Johnson of Gemmell would be on third. Billy is just rounding into shape after laying off with a broken foot, but he can field and throw and he hits a long ball. In the outfield I would have Zaccaria, Velcheck and Green. "Zac" and Velcheck are from Gemmell. Show me two better in the league and I will show you a white blackbird. Velcheck hit 443 the first-half and he covers cov-ers that outfield like the dew. "Zac" hit 397 and led the league in home runs, with seven and was also first in total bases. The little power house can go get that ball with the best. Green is the boy with the Wings, and is a double-A ball player. The Bingham Bing-ham and Provo fans have had a sample of this boy's hitting ability. abili-ty. He hit two over the mountains moun-tains in Copperton and two over the right field fence in Provo, and believe me, that is a fair drive for a "C" card. The catcher catch-er would be Sertich of Pinney, first choice and Overly of Provo, second. Both of these boys can do everything a catcher is supposed sup-posed to do. Hit, throw, run and handle pitchers. The pitching : staff I don't know how many they will carry, but here goes for five, Peterson of Pinney; Clegg of Provo; Griffin of Gemmell, Singleton of Brigham City and Stone of Brigham City. Remember, Remem-ber, the reason there are no Magna Mag-na players on this team is because be-cause they are picked to play Magna. Here are a few averages for the first-half: Leading Fielder For Each Position PO A Pet. C Rasmussen, Magna 113 5 1.000 1 B, Facer, Magna 41 8 .994 2 B, Phipps, Gemmell 34 37 .973 3 B, Tedesco, Pinney 9 13 1.000 SS, Call, Magna 20 45 .973 Leading Outfielders PO A Pet. Velcheck 23 3 1.000 A. Jensen 26 1 1 000 Peterson 26 3 1.000 (Continued on page eight) SPORTS HERE AND THERE 1 (Continued from page one) Five Leading Hitters Pet. Evans, Magna 444 Velcheck, Gemmell 443 Berge, Provo 436 Peterson, Ogden 413 E. Jenson, Provo 412 |