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Show PLAYGROUND NEWS by B. J. Santrstevan, Area Director Bingham American Legion post , No. 30, runner-up team in the Jordan district league won a place m the state Legion tourna- ment which will be held in Og-i Og-i den July 31, August 1 and 2 by defeating Provo American Legion Le-gion team champions of Region 4 in two straight games. Both games were well played, Bingham Bing-ham winning the first 6-5 before I a large Bingham crowd and be- i hind the steady pitching of Rudy I Pino. Bingham traveled to Provo 1 Wednesday and again defeated the Provo champions in a well" ! played ball game 5-4 Warren 1 Sumnicht and Rudy Pino pitch-j pitch-j ed the last game. So Bingham I Legion team will for the 11th straight time enter the Legion tournament. Bingham has been the state Legion champions, 1944. 1949 and 1946 The Bingham team this year is small, lacks exper-! exper-! ience. Their outfield is not up to par and their pitching u far from what is desired. But the boys are determined to fight right through to the finish. The four Bingham playground teams that entered the boys' county baseball tournament at Murray lost their games but had a great time and gained a lot of experience. Canyon Motor, after a great seventh inning rally defeated de-feated Tim's Hamburgers 8 to 7. I Elva Ruth was defeated by Bluff-dale Bluff-dale 9-2, Copperfield Eagle.-, lost j to the Salt Lake Charioteers 9-1 and BDAA lost to Salt Lake Ki-wanis Ki-wanis 9-7. Our boys were all smaller than the boys on the oth-1 er teams and much younger but they had a great time and they enjoyed this well planned coun-; ty baseball tournament. Canyon j I Motor lost their second game to ' : Salt Lake Kiwanis 9-4. Billy Mitchell of Murray was' on the playground all last week. He played with the Conperton Lions daily and did a great job of fielding and hitting. The Midget Softball tourna-. ment will be runoff next week ! and we expect to enter some teams in this tournament. It will j be for boys 16 years of age and under. The county recreation department depart-ment is also planning an invitational invi-tational baseball tournament for: all boys teams in the county and i ! state to be held at Magna on or about the 11th of August. This tournament will be for all teams of boys 17 years of age and under. un-der. The county recreation department depart-ment has made all efforts to get i fish to put over Huck Finn days j at Sandy, Union, Holladay and j Bingham. But it has not been j possible to get the fish from the state fish and game. However, ! they are trying their best to see if they can eventually secure enough fish for us so we will j have to wait and see just what we can do. If we are unable to go through with this planned day ; we are going to have a day at Murray nark for parents and their children to bring their lunches lun-ches and take part in a planned recreation program for all. r |