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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt The tournament season in bowling bowl-ing is on full blast. The mock classic was held last wee k-end in Salt Lake City and this Saturday and Sunday is date of the famous fa-mous Ritz classic with a purse of $500 for first place and a prize of $2250. This is probably Utah's biggest port event. Stars from all over the country take part. It was won last year by Ned Day. former match game champion of the world, who is back defending defend-ing his title. Nearly every bowl ing star in the west is lined up. Bingham will be represented by Frank Zaccaria and Yours Truly. Tim Ablett finished in the money in the mock classic, to keep his record intact. He has been in the money In every tournament he has entered this year. Tim will give the big classic a whirl next year. The Gemmell club Round Robin will start Monday night with squads rolling at 7:00 and 8:30 o'clock. There are entries making it the biggest tournament tourna-ment yet. A prize list of $75 has been put up by the club so everyone will be in there firing. fir-ing. Baseball interest is running high. The first meeting will be held Friday (today). Manager Les Sumnicht hopes to have every man interested in baseball out. He tells me he has about six positions po-sitions to fill, so everyone will be given a chance to show his stuff. Lob Collins is back in the drivers dri-vers seat at Provo, where they held their first practice session Sunday. Fred Tedosco of Pinney has had his men, a likely looking crew, out a couple of times. One man the Bingham fans will watch with interest Frank Shepherd, who was out of ball last year but has looked plenty good this spring. Brigham City will be under Norm Watkins, who informs us that he has uncovered a couple of real ball players at Bushnell hospital. Bill McCorry of Ogden will open spring training Sunday. Don't know what Bill has, but with Cinncinaii sending hime some young fellows he will have a ba llclub, you can bet. "Chuck" Archibald at Magna has last year's pennant team back. So they are ready to go. Will be able to tell you more about GemmeH's team after they begin training. So until then, Love and Kisses, Al |