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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt Well it happened. Cyprus took tin Miners 50 to 4(5 in a wpll played (lime in Magna last Friday. Fri-day. The boys fell behind from the opening gun and despite a great performance by Eddie Gay-thwaite, Gay-thwaite, who burned the strings for 25 points, they just couldn't catch up. Magna had the boys hitting from out side and hookj shots that the locals just couldn't stop. The Miners have three games left, two at home, Murray this Friday night and Tooele on the 23rd. They close the season a-gainst a-gainst Judge in Salt Lake on March '2. Tooele, of course, is the game they must win because at the moment these two teams are tied with 6 and 1 records. They took Tooele on the Tooele court, but in basketball anything can happen. They tell me this game has been a sellout for some time. Again "Sugar" Ray Robinson proved that he is one of the greatest for inches and ounces that ever lived. By taking the middleweight championship from Jake La Motta Wednesday night he becomes the fourth man to hold more than one championship. champion-ship. Of course there is some doubt as to whether the Sugar man could make the welterweight welter-weight limit. But up to now there isn't anyone in his class in either division. The one thing that can be said about La Motta is that he went out lika . champion. cham-pion. He ook everything Robin- son had and still didn't go down. From the 11th on it was slaughter. slaugh-ter. In the fight game our local boy, Rex Layne didn't do much in the Brion fight to help his cause. The New York scribes panned the fight, about as hard as they have any Garden scrap in a long time. There isn't any question but what it is hard to look good against a fighter of Brion's type, but Rex, it is said, looked auckward. This fight proved pro-ved that Rex is at least a year away from asking for Charles. I guess it is this weather we are having, but baseball is very much in the news. The latest is that James Farley is to take Chandler's place as commissioner of baseball Bill Coram, the New York writer that broke the news has had many another scoop in the sports world so maybe he has another best. Bill says James is a great salesman, well, Chandler hasn'n done bad along those lines. About the six million for the TV and radio rights for the World series ser-ies and all star game. I can't recall re-call off hand a better or bigger selling job than that. I still say that Chandler will be hard to get out, with men like Wrigley, Griffin and Briggs behind him. The Pioneer league is all set to open with the same eight teams. Eddie Leishman, Salt Lake owner, tells me that the Phillies have promised him a good ball club. With their young talent they could do that. After last year the Salt Lake fans deserve de-serve a winner. Wayne Tucker was in Bingham Bing-ham this week. Wayne is to manage man-age Phoenix this year. Wayne will be remembered as playing with Pinney and Brigham City .1 1 J 1 1 T T Willi i iiiiitrj auu -liigiiaiu w.br in the Industrial league. He is in the Yankee chain. Fred Sanford signed his contract con-tract with the Yankees. If they give- Fred work I think he will be a winner. See you next week. AL |