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Show B.D.A.A. FLASHES by Jim Abplanalp High school baseball started its second round early this week, with our Miners soundly trouncing trounc-ing the Cyprus Pirates 11-1. Except Ex-cept for one run in the third inn-ning, inn-ning, big Jack Knudsen shut out the hapless Pirates with only five hits and nine strike-outs. Bingham to date has won 5 and lost 1. The loss, to Granite, putting put-ting the locals in second soot as the Farmers have kept their slate intact. Thursday Bingham traveled to Murray for its second encounter with the Smelter nine. SOFTBALL LEAGUE SHAPING UP The BDAA Softball league, with a tentative entry of six teams, will get under way soon. Managers have been scurrying around signing up the best available avail-able talent, and an even hotter race than last year's is being looked forward to. Last year, the BDAA league contained some of the finest performers per-formers in Utah softball. Most of these boys are ready U play again, along with some more just as good. Not many years ago, the game of softball was just what the name implies, but you can hardly hard-ly call it that today. The new softball, barely larger than a baseball, and nearly as hard, can have quite a stunning effect on anyone expecting to step up and receive the old time ball of mush Some of the fire-ball pitchers of today can shove that pellet past an unsuspecting hitter with unbelievable un-believable speed, even if they still toss it underhand. Todays game calls for speed and accuracy accur-acy as the short base paths give the fielders very little time to complete their plays. Thousands of teams participate in this sport which has gained world-wide attention, at-tention, attested by millions of fans who gather to watch the speed merchants. ALLEY ANGLES Averaging better than 222 per game, for eight games, Bii Flesch of California walked off with the $1000 first prize of the Ritz Singles Classic bowling tourney just completed at Saw Lake City. Flesch needed a 256 for his last game to go n to first place, but to make it a little saler the Californian blasted out a terrific ter-rific 279- In second place was Paul Chase of Salt Lake, with a 1755 total, just 24 pins under F1Sevheral Utahns finished in the mobneeVye in a scorchmf ; affai that saw near y all of the na tion's top keglers perform. An average of 204 did not finish in th I money, so you can see what sort of bowling the lesser lights WeTrheeTada,efBDAA squad in an effort to cop as many wins as possible, won a double header this week over wasatch Oil 3 to t, and Don Carlos Bar BQ by the same score. Next luesaay te gab wind up their long and succlssful season and be after four more wins to top on th? year's schedule. The. BDAA L proua of the fine showing and SSSfflWS' their efforts. |