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Show BASEBALL PLAYGROUND by Bailey J. Santistevan, Area Director Spruces was in store last week for the playground. Over 70 students stu-dents from the area made the three-day camping trip and a thrilling time was had by all. Supt. Paul Rose was present and awarded prizes to the winners of the handicraft dept. contest which was staged at Spruces. Hiking, games, singing and entertainment en-tertainment program put on by the leaders and a few Bingham people, made the stay even more enjoyable. Governor of the camp was Dick Roblez who made sure that the grounds were kept clean at all times and imposed fines to those who got out of line. As a special project our area is to put up a flag pole at the Spruces lodge and will do so when given the orders from Elmo El-mo Brady, supervisor of Spruces. Before leaving for Spruces, a baseball carnival was held at our playgrounds. Everyone on the playground participated and a lot of ability was shown by the boys. After totaling up all the points the following were the winners: 14-15-16 years 1, Marion Cowdell; 2, Jack Peterson; 3, Dave Peterson; 11-12-13 years 1, Bob Peterson; 2, Ronnie Bor-en; Bor-en; 3, Tom Lovat; 8-9-10 years 1, Joe Costello and George Re-koutis; Re-koutis; 2, Joe Karl; 3, George Markovich; 7 years 1, Harold Susaeta; 2, Richard Johnson; 3, Paul McMullin. Tuesday was tournament day with teams from Lark, Magna, Monroe, Garfield and Bingham playing for places in the county-wide county-wide tournament. Baseball was played all morning and afternoon after-noon with about 18 teams battling battl-ing for the crown. After the smoke was cleared the following follow-ing three champs were crowned: Major league was won by our Bingham Bosox, while the Minor Min-or and Giant league was taken by Magna. The Minor and Giant play-off for the county will be held at Magna on the 11th of August while the Major play-off will be held here on the 15th of August. Another coming attraction in August will be the Ruth, Nev recreation dept. sending down teams to play our boys. Supervisor Super-visor there is Dean Stringham, and arrangements have been made through him. Further announcement an-nouncement about the exact date and time will be published on a later day and we want to urge you people to attend these games and give the Nevada boys a good showing. o |