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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt The Bingham high school base ball team has played three games in their pre-season schedule, and they have done just about what Sandy has expected. They played play-ed East at Copperton last Tuesday Tues-day and ran up a big score. Not so much on hitting as it was the wildness of the East pitchers. Talley Stevens, East coach, gave some of his sophomores a chance and, of course, like youngsters, they had a hard time locating the plate. The bright spot on the Bingham team was the pitching of "Lefty" Cowdell, This kid has got something, and with Warren Sumnicht, should give Sandy adequate pitching all year. Our club didn't look too good at the plate,' Ronni6 Kastelic hit one, to right center for three bases, tie only ball our club really hit well. The other power boys onj the club didn't do too well. Wej have a good defensive club. If the hitting improves they should win in the Jordan division. Along the baseball front elsewhere, else-where, the Utah boys are in full swing, Kent Peterson with Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, looks like he has finally arrived. Kent was sent down to Syracuse last year and getting to pitch more, improved his control. con-trol. Looks like Fred Sanford is on his way out as a Yankee. Fred popped of lift his spring and since then hasn't done too well, Herman Her-man Franks is a coach with the Giants and getting along swell. Our own Don Gust has reported report-ed to Richmond, Ind., in the I. and O league. Haven't heard from Don, but I am sure he will make it. 1 haven't had any word from Wilson, our manager, in the Industrial In-dustrial league, but I know Wils is working on his club. The Industrial In-dustrial league meets tonight in Provo to map their schedule for the season. I have word that Logan will ask for a franchise. With night ball, Logan would make a good town. I also heard Tooele was going to the meeting. Make a nice eight club league. At last its on the fire, a big time fight for Salt Lake. Rex Layne against some real top notcher on July 24 at the Utah stadium. The fellows behind the move have plenty of money. But with Layne fighting any of the top names they will draw 30,000 people. I think their best bet is Harry Matthews. Harry is from Washington and they go for him up there in a big way. He wants Layne and I think they can get him for the same percentages as any of the other name fighters. As a fan I sure hope it goes through. See you next week. AL I O |