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Show LEGION TEAM ! RUNNERS-UP IN REGIONAL PLAY To date undefeated, the Tucson, Tuc-son, Ariz., American Legion Junior Jun-ior baseball team won the mountain moun-tain regional tournament Wednesday Wed-nesday by a 14-2 triumph over Bingham Canyon, Utah's champions champ-ions Tucson goes on to the western wes-tern sectional playoff at Miles City, Mont., which begins August Aug-ust 18. The locals played four games in the tourney and early made it plain that Bingham Canyon u as the team to beat in winning the round robin contest. Bingham lost their first game at the elimination tourney when Colorado Springs, Colo., Saturday Satur-day achieved a 4 to 0 shut out by scoring two runs in the sixth and two in the ninth and holding hold-ing the locals to three hits. Sunday the Utah Title Holders met and removed the McGill, Nov., team from Dlay by a decisive de-cisive 10-4 victory. Monday the Bingham nine re-moved re-moved from action Colorado Springs Clippers by an easy 11 j to 3 triumph. The locals swatted offerings of three Colorado pitch- IMS, J. Morgan, Merle Bales and Ruppert Sullivan, with Bill Boron Bor-on leading the free swingers with four in six trips to the plate. Tuesday the Utah Champs were ahead in the feature game I of the day, with Tucson, when the contest had to be halted on account of rain. In their last tourney appear-I appear-I ance the Miners 'seemed tired and the Tucson aggregation had ; little difficulty handling offer-! offer-! ings of Pitchers Bailey Santis-Ktevan Santis-Ktevan and Don Stoddard- The Utah team, which had been per-! per-! forming excellently in the field, made numerous errors. The Bingham Canyon team i performed excellently and their j supporters will proudly greet them and are waiting to hear the inside story of each game. Telegrams and telephone calls I have kept parents and support- ers abreast of games and scores, but do not give the whole picture. |