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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ableft Basketball is over locally. B. Y. U. won the N.I.T. but in their bid for a grand slam they just ran out of gas. I hear some people peo-ple say they have never heard of some of those teams that played in the N.I.T. Well, all I can say is they just don't follow the game nationally. The entire West can be proud of this BYU team. Rested and ready to go, they would be a handful for any team in the country. Utah is back in Peoria, 111., playing in ' the Bradley tournament. tourna-ment. They won their first start against Villanova 67-65. Wyoming Wyom-ing is in this tournament and they won their first start. So the public has begun to take notice of mountain states basketball, that is for sure. Bingham has an entry in the Jr. Intermountain AAU to be held in Salt Lake April 10, 11, 12, 13. A team of kids headed by Dick Carter and Jimmie "Bullets" "Bul-lets" Goris have hustled their entry fee and I am sure they will 'be one of the teams to beat. A great bunch of kids. This corner cor-ner wishes them' luck. Baseball is definitely in the air. Mandel Wilson has been chosen to head the Bingham BDAA entry, en-try, and Wils is busy lining up his team. A great many of the kids from last year's squad are in the services. So we will probably prob-ably see a great many new faces. Coach Santistevan has his high school squad out and from the looks of the material he will have another good nine. Warren "Cotton" Sumnicht and "Lefty" Cowdell gives him two sound pitchers. Eddie Gaythwaite has shifted to catching and will make a good one. Max Sluga at first, Bob Sanchez at second and Ronnie Ron-nie Kastelic on short gives him the needed experience to build around. Some of the other boys might replace these fellows but they are the lettermen. But I always know Sandy will have a ball club. See you next week. AL o |