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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Another baseball season is underway un-derway and the fans still don't know whether Truman is a south paw or not. He threw one with each hand at the opener in Washington. Our high school team is' sailing sail-ing along in the Jordan division with three wins and no losses. If "Sandy" can get consistent pitching "they will be hard to take. He could use another right handed hitter against southpaw pitching. But as a team they look pretty good. "Cotton" Sumnicht hasn't got over-powering speed but the kid knows what to do out on that mound. Montoya is plenty fast, if he comes up with a cljange he will win. Don Gust at short and "Moose" Sanchez at second make a good combination. With Kastelic in center they are fairly strong down the middle. Boyd Householder on first is improving im-proving every game. Patrick is doing the catching and is one of the two right handed hitters on the club. Moore and Gaythwaite are in left and right field. Both hit a long ball. If Eddie Gayth-! waite improves his speed he has a baseball future. Bedont has possibilities. He is a big boy with plenty of power. Ballamis is an outfielder with good power and a strong arm. I look for Bingham to be in the thick of it for the state championship. Our Industrial league entry made a great move to strengthen their team when they signed Pete Radulovich. Pete is one of the finest catchers in Utah semi-pro semi-pro circles. He has done wonders with young pitchers and" Mgr. Zaccaria will have a young pitching pitch-ing staff. Pete can hit and throw with the best of them. Give Zac a shortstop and he will finish in the first division. Most of his boys are going to school. Johnny Brown and Del Schick at Utah are both having a good year. Brown hit like a little demon in the BYU scries. Cal Crump is playing first base for BYU and hitting that long ball. Jimmie Bernardo is out for third base, and with this boy's hustle he will be hard to keep out of there. Mickey Culleton is a much improved im-proved catcher at Utah. Stuck-enschneider Stuck-enschneider again will be the wheel horse of the pitching staff and with some help will be ' a rough boy to handle. Zac is holding hold-ing practice twice a week and he may come up with a boy or two that will help him. One thing for sure every Bingham boy will have his chance. Just heard that Russell Gust is back from Nevada. Russ can play eith- er outfield or infield and he is a pretty fair hitter. So with Zac still on the look out Bingham may be heard from again in the Industrial league. Another Ritz Classic has gone by with another great array of western bowlers taking part. For the second straight year, a Salt Laker kept the coveted prize at home. Bill Ward was the boy this year. Bill shot a big 1749 for his j eight games to finish 71 pins up 1 on Al Thoss from California, i Bowlers from nine states took ; part. Your writer was lucky enough to finish in a tie for tenth place. I will say here, for Bill Ward, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. The Princess theatre round robin ro-bin for men and women is going into its final stages with Jimmie Abplanalp leading the men and Shirley Susaeta the women. This handicap tournament becomes more popular each year. Will give you the winners next week. Until then, AL |