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Show BJ).A.A. FLASHES by Jim Abplanalp BINGHAM CONTINUES LEAD WINS ONE. DROPS ONE Although the BDAA Amateur baseballers dropped a ragged fray to the Rushton clan last week, they continued to lead the Bonneville loop, after defeating Cass Heat last Sunday at Derks field. Thursday the locals played host to the brothers, cousins, etc. of the Rushton family and by the looks of the score, every body on both teams were related. Rush-ton's Rush-ton's made the most runs (16), and as many hits as the locals, but couldn't compare with the , Bingham boys in the error department. de-partment. Our lads showed a great variety of fielding plays that would make your hair stand on end, and nearly all of them the wrong way. This hasn't hap- Cened very often, so we can't lame them for a loose one now and then. The game against Cass Heating . at Derks Sunday was another hitters holiday, with Bingham garnering 21 hits and 19 runs against, 13 hits and 10 runs for the Heaters. Kent Stillman was the big gun for the locals with a home run, double and two singles sing-les in six times at bat. Every man on the BDAA squad hit well, as Knudsen and Crump held the opposition in check. Bingham has now won a total of 16 games for the entire season with only three losses. In second half play the locals have won 8 and lost one and at the present time are two games in front of the runner up Midvale nine. Yesterday Bingham was scheduled sched-uled to meet Tooele at Copper-ton. Copper-ton. On Wednesday, July 21 Bingham and DeMolay meet at the Copperton stadium at 5:30. SOFTBALL SLANTS Copperton Dumpi A & M Well! It happened! Yessir the league leading A & M Softball crew lost a game and the second sec-ond place Copperton nine deserved deser-ved the convincing 8 to 3 win over the powerful leaders. Although the A & M has already al-ready clinched the 1948 softball trophy, they wanted to go thru undefeated, but it Just couldn't be, so Copperton said and did it. In one of the best games of the hectic '48 race, the roaring Lions" took a 4 to 3 decision from Standard Stan-dard Garage in nine innings. This game was well played and the pitching and fielding was of good caliber on both sides. The Eagles traveled to Xark and won another good game from the home team 8 to 4. Next Monday will wind up the regular softball season with Copperton Cop-perton traveling to Lark, A & M meeting Standard Garage and the Eagles versus the Lions. At the end of the regular schedule, sche-dule, a round rabin tourney will be held. The winners of this playoff will receive a trophy as well as the trophy given to the I regular league winner. Don't miss these next games, the boys are hot after each other and should furnish a lot of excitement. |