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Show B.D.A.A. FLASHES by Jim Abplanalp With the glamour of parades, i top performances of every description de-scription and a general w'indup of the nations best athletic a-j a-j chievements, the Utah Centen-! Centen-! nial drew to a climax today (Thursday) in a colorful Pioneer day fete. Highlighting a Century of Progress has been the tre-. tre-. mendously successful sports program pro-gram carried on by the Centennial Centen-nial sports committee. The best athletes from all ovef the nation, including track and field stars, tennis and softball greats, the worlds best bowlers, car races, billiard experts and other top performers in major sports have shown their wares to the appreciative appre-ciative Utah fans. Sports go every ev-ery day, but many years may pass before the home state shall witness another spurts calendar such as the 1947 card. Locally, our participants are still enjoying softball and base-I base-I ball, golf, tennis and the other I less strenuous activities. Our I barnyard golf followers are ! working out for the Kennecott i field day meet. Our American Legion baseball nine, by virtue of a double win ' over Provo, will enter the playoff play-off for the state championship at ' Ogden July 31, August 1 and 2. I The Legion boys keep the Bing-i Bing-i ham baseball center right out front as we all look fur and hope to keep. The BDAA softball league is j becoming a wild scramble for I the four top positions. The four leaders will meet in a play off tourney at the end of the regular season to determine the 1947 champ and it's really getting interesting in-teresting now. Due to the holiday postponement postpone-ment of some of the games, we will have to give you the results and league standings of the teams next week. In the meantime, why not get down and enjoy these really good softball shows 1 Next Week's Softball Schedule I Tuesday, July 29 Copperton 1 vs Firemen at field 1; Linns vs A & M at field 2; U. S. Mine bye; Lark vs Eagles at Lark. Thursday, July 31 U.S. Mme vs Eagles at field 1; Lark bye; Firemen vs A & M at held 2; j Cooperton vs Lions at field 3. |