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Show B.D.A.A. FLASHES by Jim Abplanalp Well, the old baseball season is underway, and outside of the major and Pioneer leagues local interest will center around our high school and American Legion teams. Coach Bailey Santistevan has another fine squad of boys entered in the state playoffs on May 16, and will be gunning for the state championship again. The BDAA Softball league swings into action this week, and some lively engagements are assured both at the new park at Copperton and at Lark- The BDAA sought the help of Commissioner Com-missioner Gwynne Page and through his cooperation and support, sup-port, were enabled to provide a softball park south of Copper-ton. Copper-ton. Commissioner Page sent out j two graders and crews which leveled off a very nice spot for our softball diamond. The Bingham Merchants had a tough night Tuesday against Zephyr club in the Columbia league. lea-gue. Each team garnered 11 hits, and the locals made fewer errors but couldn't get enough of the most important things tallies. After a bit of seasoning, the Merchants can make a tough race of it. At the last BDAA meeting, new topics were discussed and plans for broader fields of recreation re-creation and entertainment were planned. The BDAA had as special spe-cial guests, Joe Christensen and Elmo Brady, chairman and vice chairman of the newly organized Salt Lake County Recreation Program. They outlined their intended in-tended program of year-round sports and activities, a field to cover baseball, softball, handicraft, handi-craft, drama, dancing, and other varied interests. Also present at the meeting were T. H. McMullin, McMul-lin, Coach Santistevan and Joel P. Jensen, who will be associated j with the new recreation program, j I The BDAA went on record to I cooperate and help in any way this splendid undertaking which j will benefit everyone who wish- i es to participate. BDAA girls won three and losfr one game to Hy Walker last Tuesday evening. The girls have one more Tuesday of league play. This will wind up the bowling at the Ritz for the girls until next year. Be seeing you. |