Show e a f Sports Mirror By By John Mooney oon I T Telegram Sports Editor This may not make such a hit with Ith the dyed in wool the wool the semipro semipro semipro semi- semi pro baseball fans but to this writer y j the chief reason for the Salt Lake Pinneys leading the Utah Indus- Indus Industrial trial league through the first week of play is as simple as A B and C C. It has long be been n contended by some baseball fans that the trouble with the Industrial league was the cliques which froze out new new and and younger younger talent There may have been some justification for these charges but that Is la neither here nor there Our contention was that the were lacking In the theold theold theold old zing and college try Its It's too early euly In the season to prove pro or disprove e our ideas on this hustle business but anyway something new has been added at least to the Salt Lake Pinneys I For the Pinneys are racing around In coltish fashion which some of the older boys bos haven't I displayed in years ears I I We believe its it's the l influx of new blood on the squad One of the theto to top reasons too Is the fine play i of the Pinney keystone combination combination tion of Jack Erlenbach and Orson Bailey Balley second and short These kids have been adding adding add add- i f ing the old pepper to the Infield and with Wayne Wane Tucker on first firstI and Manager Fred Tedesco on I third should rank with anything in the league Gene Ludlow and Joe Nunley 1 a couple of rookies have helped the outfield defensively and all in all Pinney should have a crowd- crowd i pleasing ball bail club this year Tedesco figured to have ha the best pitching staff in the league I this year ear with Frank Shepherd Don Arbon Kenny Price Kent I Peterson and Henry Hansmann available a for chucking This i drew some blasts from the other Salt Lake teams who Iio contended I II Tedesco was grabbing too manyI many I I pitchers I I But Dut look over o the weeks week's t tough luck and see the wisdom of of Feets Feet's preparedness Price came up with a sore ore arm amI in the opener Sunday Shepherd fell feU at j his his defense job and Injured his ji I back Don Arbon finds It almost I Impossible to finish work In I time to play out of town games Kent Peterson is still in high school school and has his prep chores I to to consider first That left Hansmann and Gene Ludlow outfielder pitcher outfielder pitcher for service It looks from here as if Peterson and Arbon will throw in the Sunday doubleheader with Og Og- Og- Og den t 4 Just as a mere s suggestion why couldn't some of ot those army box- box Ira Frs rs be drafted to present a weekly fight card limited to soldier admission admission admission ad ad- mission only at White park this summer The park will not b be In use a 11 couple of ot nights a week and the thousands of ot soldiers in the Salt Lake ar area a are begging for someplace some someplace someplace place to go x By Dy limiting the admission to enlisted men and their officers the fights tIghts would serve sere ser e as enter- enter 4 for the soldiers and still not Interfere or compete with Ith professional promoters who are laying out their hard earned cash In an effort to make a at f t dollar or hoOn two o On the other hand there just t arent aren't enough facilities to entert entertain enter enter- t thin tain several thousand soldiers t I every enry night and keep them off oft t e K I the streets i i White f park ark is b right across the thet t highway ay from the fair grounds I encampment only a few hundred i yards from the air base and only y 1 A A. short distance from the air corps I basic baie training center at Kearns More fore than a thousand soldiers a 1 could be seated at these fights I with no extra bleachers installed installed and we are ate sure the city would be glad to donate the use of the flood lights once a week The military ry groups have hundreds of or boys able to box or slug slag with some degree of science set set- ence enee and these fights would be the answer to several se problems r I t With the park and lights free r t t L no seating arrangements to 1 worry about a capacity crowd l 4 assured and all aU the talent free there is no reason why the 1 boxers couldn't offer some pleasing pleas- pleas f ing ng entertainment for their com com- If It those instructors are serious In their efforts to find the right calisthenics and vitamin diets to build build up weaklings into tough fighting men how about a sus- sus tamed study of the Philadelphia Phillies Theres There's a to riches episode e for sure t 1 0 4 Y 5 t r o J r. r o tA 0 |