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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett The teams in the Industrial league are' settling into their levels. lev-els. Helper is on top with American Amer-ican Fork in place position with Brigham City holding down third. Provo, Bingham and Magna Mag-na are bunched in the second division. Helper beat Provo and Brigham City the past week. A. F. took Magna 8 to 1 after losing los-ing to Helper. Bingham lost to Brigham City. McConnell pitched pitch-ed a 5 hitter in this one. Mgr. Zaccaria has Stillman back for short stop, and the Jenkins twins are playing great ball at first and third. Jimmy Brown is the most improved ball player in the league. The locals will be totugh every time Vic Stuckenschneider pitches, but the rest of the staff is young and wild. Radulovich will study them as they go along. Furlong shows great promise too bad this boy Isn't bigger Don Gust continues to play great ball at short stop for Helper. Help-er. Don hasn't kicked one in four games. A. F. has added Perago and Aspuland from the Bees, and Johnny Caputo from Utah Aggies, Ag-gies, in an attempt to strengthen. Magna has Glen Tucket from the Bees playing second base. Provo is still looking for a first baseman that can hit that long ball. Mike Wood, the Helper fireball fire-ball catcher, came out of a batting bat-ting slump against Brigham City and Provo with seven hits in nine times at bat. Big Bob Roff and Bailey are hitting that long ball for the Carbon boys. Wilson has only two pitchers up to now, but they are good ones, Max Pessetto and Vetturalle. Good crowds have been in attendance at-tendance in every town, and Pres. Corfield expects them to get better with warmer weather. Coach Santistevan worked the South All Stars out in the Copperton Cop-perton park Wednesday night and is pleased with the squad that has been picked. The North team got together in Ogden. These high school stars come together to-gether in Ogden June 7 in a night game for the Shrine Crippled- Childrens hospital. Three Bingham boys are on the South souad. Don Gust. Johnnv Gara- hana and Roy Montoya. The Salt Lake Bees are in the cellar and players are going and coming in wholesale lots. Owners Own-ers Dunn and Enberg have their work cut out for them as any independent club soon finds out. Too many minor league clubs in the big league chains. The big leagues have settled down for the long haul. In the American its still the Yankees to beat. But it will be a dog fight before its over. Boston, Detroit and Cleveland have solid ball clubs. In the National its Brooklyn and Philadelphia (What did I tell you about this young Phillie club), with St. Louis and Boston dangerous all the time. I think the managers that have done the best job so far are Bucky Harris at Wishington in the American and Frank Frisch with the Cubs in the National. Do you know what might be next in the big leagues, a girl ball player. Don't laugh, competent compe-tent baseball men say they have one in the All American Girls pro league that if she was a boy, big league scouts would be bidding bid-ding plenty to sign her, Dot Kaminshek of Grand Rapids, Mich. Dot plays first base. They say she hits that long ball. You know this girls league don't play softball. There game is exactly like baseball. The ball is just a little larger and the bases are 70 ft. instead of 90, and the pitchers distance is 52 ft. instead in-stead of 60' 6". The pitcher throws overhand just as in baseball. base-ball. Each girl gets $50 a week to start. But some of the stars are getting as much as $500 a month. Here is a tip by V. P. Stock. The way that Salt Lake club is shipping players in and out its bound to go up. See you next week. AL |