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Show PLAYGROUND NEWS B J. Santistevan, Area Recreational Director The Bingham American Legion club defeated Provo Legion club 10-8 in the first playoff in the eight-team double elimination j tournament being played for the : state American Legion title. Knudsen, though wild, managed to weather Provo's hard hitting and pitched good ball in the pinches. Bingham's infield played play-ed rugged ball but Provo really hit in the fourth inning when j they took a 4-3 lead. This week-end we play Ogden Og-den American Legion club. The Ogden team is a big hard hitting, hit-ting, good fielding club and we will have to play the best ball we have played all year to slay on top. But the boys are determined and I believe they will be tough to beat if they play up to par. The Bingham Cubs and Frog- town ball club lost their two games in the Midvale tournament tourna-ment this week. Sanchez though pitching good ball in spots, weak-j weak-j ened and walked several and this proved his undoing. Sammy Ro-: Ro-: bison, Boyd Householder and Ned Miller, along with Bobby Moore j and Harold Patrick, played great ball. They lost to Sandy and Mid-vale. Mid-vale. The Elva Ruth team, supported support-ed by Copperton Juniors, won their game at Midvale from Mid-1 vale 11-4. Warren Sumnicht kept the hits well scattered and struck . out 14 Midvale batsmen. Friday the Elva Ruth team in the semi-final game lost to Magna Mag-na 6-5. Warren Sumnicht lost a tough game but the Bingham boys just couldn't hit when hits meant runs. The bases were loaded load-ed and the tieing run was thrown out at home plate. What a ball game for a bunch of midget ball players- The Midget baseball tourna-ment tourna-ment which was held in Midvale and Murray this year will be annual an-nual affairs in the county. A tournament tour-nament for all baseball players j over 14 years of age will be held in Magna next week. The Bingham Legion boys , were happy to welcome back Kent Stillman, Wayne Ray and Victor Roblez, members of last year's champions who went to Provo to see the Legion win We j would certainly like to have these I boys back this year to help us j out. Johnny Landenberger did a ! great job pinch hitting for Merlin Mer-lin Coleman in the Legion tournament tour-nament at Murray. Johnny, though small, has a lot of fortitude forti-tude and he likes baseball. The Copperfield Pewees are still hitting the ball hard and they hope to overcome the lead 'of the Copperton Cubs and the Popeye club. Ronnie Kastelic and Gary La-Comb, La-Comb, two Midget players in the county tournament hit well and fielded in great style for the Elva Ruth team. Chris Ballamis , and Edward Gaythwaite were, the receivers on the Elva Ruth team Both of these boys have the makings of good receivers. A Huck Finn day was planned for all boys and girls under 14: ,n Bingham to be held at Butter-feU Butter-feU canvon but on the advice of Mr Christie the water was too law to plant fish. So we will have to give up the idea this year. 1 |