Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-06-24 | Page 11 | Provo Plays Pinney Here Sunday

mm ipojws praiv mm mmmi Makes Great P,ennantBid The title-defending Pinney club ef Salt Lake City will make its final bid for first-half laurels In the semipro Industrial baseball league .en its home diamond at Community! park Sunday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Ahead of Macna only by percentage per-centage points, the Salt Lakers invaded in-vaded Payson to play Dividend Saturday Sat-urday in quest of a third straight win over the Miners. They will ' play Prove at Community, here Sunday, Sun-day, starting at 2:30 p. m, and will meet Cemmell Tuesday at S:1S p. m- and Helper Wednesday, also at l:U, under the new lights. Tough Assignment Unless Dividend beats Magna Sun- esaB-iAdJiy-BnBhdbJI'jl tH ieB4VtT -4)aMaV InVesaV Wi ' six In a row Pinney must win three of the four fames to tie Magna for the top. The Salt Lakers best Provo, three game to one, last year for the league championship, and have won or shared first place in four of the half-seasons of the past three years. The club was orfan-lced orfan-lced In 193 from the disbanded Holaum and Royal squads of Salt Lake. Manager Fred Tedesco, who last Sunday hit four times in as many tries at Dividend, leads all hitters of the loop with a .482 average. He had announced the eelection of Jack (Lefty 1 Lowell, former Dividend Divi-dend star, for mound duties Saturday, Satur-day, and will aend Frank 8hepherd to the hill against Gemmell, in Tuesday's night game. Prove WIH Use Stone Gordon Rhodes, former Salt Laker and big league moundaman. Is slated to hurl for Gemmell. Only Pinney and Magna have a chance to gain first-half honors, and Magna Mag-na must win Sunday unless the Salt Lakers lose two. ' Howard Stone will pitch for Provo, with Don Overly behind the plate. Manager John Philpy, a catcher, may perform in the outfield. out-field. Another Sunday game, In which the rival pilots probably will try out new material in preparation for the second-half race, sends Gemmell to Helper. Provo plays at Dividend Wednesday to round out the first-half slate.