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Show FRANK K. BAKER J-VULI-4 TtltGRAM SPOHTf IDITOO. 1 Proof that Herman Frank?, the husky backstop for Sacramento in the Pacific Coau league, really worked thii season can be found in the fact that he was down to 1 81 "pounds forhercafcfpafrflhecampaij5rtin which the Cardinal-owned club finished on top. Herman, who has just returned home to Salt Lake City for the winter, isn't very keen for the Shaughncssy playoff plan, and neither are any of the Sacramento players for that matter. After leading the league in the regular 24-wcek campaign, Sacramento Sac-ramento was knocked over in the playoff and did not even get chance to play for the official title. So far as the team is concerned, though, Herman says the boyi figure they are the real champions, arguing that a club Which triumphs over the long haul carries a lot more prestige than tho team which gels hot in a short series. Franks is hopeful of eventually making the step right Into the Cardinals' main bailiwick at SI. Louis, figuring that ho might get a chance within tha next two years. His advancement ad-vancement from Jacksonville, Texas, to Houston and then this year to Sacrament indicates that th Cardinal management man-agement is (rooming him for better ball. And that, of course, meant an nltimat chance in th big show. During midseason the Utahn had great hopes of putting a .300 batting average in the record books, knowing know-ing full well that good stick work would hasten his big opportunity at better competition. The closing weeks of the race, however, found Herman slumping off 2 J to 30 points, and now he's wondering if the last two weeks ren't always his jinx. The last dozen games a year ago t Houston put a crimp into an otherwise promising batting mark, which, as the former Kast high athlete puts it, "is just when it hurts most," because those batting bat-ting marks mean so much when the diamond moguls began looking over prospects for the coming season. While ther Is still tlm to do something about it, w should Ilk t urge University of Utah authorities and Salt Lak City's civic leaders to mak more organised effort to entertain Idah'e's visiting fans at next week's football gam her between Utah and Idaho. Besides offering a most prospective bit of gridiron entertainment, en-tertainment, next week's gam In Utah stadium also offers a moat pleasant opportunity for th folks from thes two great neighboring stales to visit with on another. That's why w houU Ilk t ae every possible effort extended by Salt Lakers t mak ur neighbors from th north feel at horn during their trip her to next week'a game. A gam of such magnitud merits special Invitations to Idaho dignitaries to l th glints f local leaders before and after th gam. And It affords a most excellent opportunity for local fraternal rganlsatlons t invlt big delegations from their Idaho f roups to visit th local quarter. It offers a grand opportunity opportu-nity for the folk f that tw great mountain empires to get . ttr and mor Intimately acqnalnted. Let's not muff this opportunity t b good hosts! |