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Show SUMMER PLAYGROUND by B. J. Santistevan Last week ended the third week of playground work and at the baseball field it ended with a day of champions. A day of champions in the respect that the first quarter champs were crowned; crown-ed; also crowned champs and a-warded a-warded were the individual winners win-ners of our baseball carnival and team relay champs. Crowned first quarter champs in the Senior league was the Bingham team. This club has some good pitching and is bolstered bol-stered by Don Lipsey and Tom Garahana who are on the playground play-ground every day and keep this club at the top. In the Junior league the A & M Sky Larks were the league leaders with a 8-1 won-lost record. re-cord. On this ball team there is a boy named Louis Serrero who has not missed a day of playground play-ground and is hitting and fielding field-ing the ball well for the Sky-Larks Sky-Larks along with Tommy James and Norman Chesler. The Popsicle league was a clean sweep by the Bingham Browns. This club went through the first quarter undefeated. The Browns have a bunch of boys w ho are always on the playground and depend on hitters and fielders field-ers like little Frank Zdunieh, Don and Mike Carter and Rich Dor-ranee. Dor-ranee. In the baseball carnival individual indi-vidual prizes were given for different dif-ferent age groups. The cream of the crop in the 15 and 16 year-old year-old group was Ronnie Kastelic who garnered most of his points on the running events. In the 13 and 14 year-old group Filomeno Ochoa and Don Mattson fought it out to a deadlock. In the 12 year old group there was a close race with Ronnie Muhar edging Butch Tyson by one point and winning hmself a new baseball as his award. Lynn Miller was the winner in , the 11 year-old group with Dick Susaeta pushing push-ing him hard. Little Tom Lovat garnered the most points in the 10 year old group and was crowned crown-ed champ of that group. Joe Cos-tello Cos-tello who is the mgr. of the Cop- Eerfield Eagles did himself well y winning the 9 year old group by beating teammate Jack Har-ryman Har-ryman by two points. The 7 and 8 year old group was a neck to neck race between Dave Brisk and Bobby Davis with Brisk finally fin-ally winning by one point. All in all the first Baseball Carnival was very well received by the boys and if possible will be held every two weeks so that more boys will be able to win prizes. Week in and week out many kids from out of town and out of state visit our playground. This , week we are glad to welcome j Roy Contreras, L. A., Calif., Jerry Jer-ry Brisk from Spring City, Lee Smith from Brigharn City, and John Raso who is visiting here from Grand Junction, Colo. This seems to be it from your weekly baseball playground for now. Before closing for this week the playground directors and all j the boys want to send a srjecial thanks to Bill Cown, Patty Davis and the Western Arms Sporting Goods store in Salt Lake City for donating all the prizes for our baseball carnival. It was really swell of all of you and we really appreciated it. |