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Show PLAYGROUND NEWS . by Bailey J Satitistevan, superior super-ior of the CupperUm Baseball Base-ball Playground. Johnny Garahana is the handyman handy-man for the Bingham Yanks He pitches, catches and olavs the infield and outfield ' Dick "Eight Ball" RobW m really wearing out the horsehide for the Bingham Air Force. His hitting and fielding are the highlights high-lights of his team. Boyd Householder is holding down first base for the Bingham Yanks and is doing a fine job of it. Ho hits and fields well Paul Valdez, Pat Montoya and Ray Contreras are the niainstavs on the Dinkeyville Nine Victor Roblez takes his turn playing and managing the Bingham Bing-ham Yanks. Johnny Cortez is the home run king of The Pee wee league. He gets his share of circuit clouts daily. Merlin Coleman is playing the outfield for the Copperton Giants. His fielding and hatting is improving im-proving daily. Dick Johnson finds time to come to the playground on his days off and hits a few for whatever what-ever team that uses him. Albert Gallegos, Roy Gallegos and Max Sluga have been hustling hust-ling and playing bang-up ball for the Bingham Air Force. Ronnie Kastelic, John Dee Mitchell, Gary LaComb and Gerald Ger-ald Haskell continue to hit the ball hard enough to lead their team in the race for the Peewee league championship. Jack Peterson, bat boy for the Copperton Giants and Henry Gallegos, bat boy for Bingham Air Force stage a daily verbal battle, each trying to push his team over. The Boy Scouts of Bingham, attending the camp at Tracy Wigwam in Millcreek this week have cut our daily crowds down to about 50 per day. The extreme hot weather has also taken its toll this week. Everyone on the playground was sorry to hear that Kay Nelson Nel-son had to undergo an appendectomy. append-ectomy. Kay has been playing great ball for the Allentown, Pa., Fleetwings in the Interstate league. lea-gue. Kay was taken ill suddenly and the operation was necessary. This may close his baseball career for the summer. |