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Show Sportc Here and There by Al Ablett The weather isn't to good for baseball yet but the high school team has played a couple of practice prac-tice games and they are rounding round-ing into shape. At that age, a-bout a-bout the only thing a kid needs is a hair cut and he is ready to go. Sandy has a good nucleus to build on. Cowdell, the good young lefthander, is head man on the pitching staff. His infield is pretty well set George Apostal Apos-tal on first, Mitchell at second, Kastelic at short and Sonny Robertson Ro-bertson at third. He has Rager back for one outfield post as well as Max Sluga. So with a little warm weather, Sandy will have them looking like a ball club. Haven't heard a thing on the Industrial In-dustrial league team. The Bees have gone into spring training and Mgr. Hub Kittle will have a good many of last year's champions back. My pick of this year's ball players is big Dave Brittain. This : boy has what it takes to be a pitcher. But Hub has his work cut out for him if he is to fill the shoes left vacant by Bert Barklow and Bob Greenwood, his two star flippers, from laaL year. "Pinky" Hess will be missed in center-field center-field as well. But the Phillie organization or-ganization will ' probably take care of owner Eddie Leishman in good shape. Just as I thought, they were trying to rush young Jack Nelson up the fistic ladder a little too fast. Big Dale Hall just had too many guns and too much savey for the kid. Better keep Jack in the light heavyweight class and against boys with about the same experience for awhile. Now that the fans have had a look at Hall why not get him and Layne together. That is, of course, if Rex gets over Peterson in Logan. Hall held Layne to a draw about a year ago, so it has the earmarks of a natural. One thing in the fight picture locally that is, is why Garth Pan-ter Pan-ter didn't catch on in Salt Lake. The boy has been fighting main events in the northwest and from all reports has looked real good. But in Salt Lake he just can't draw. The boy started in the fairgrounds arena. Not too many young fellows in Utah taking up boxing as a career. Nothing with too much class in the last AAU. I see where Keith Nuttall is training for a comeback. Keith is the Brigham City boy that looked so good a couple of years back. He was the victim of some poor management and after a couple of bad setbacks retired. Keith isn't too old and he had class. I recall a couple of he Nuttall vs Hunick donnybrook, boy they were real scraps. Now Ernie Hunick has looked right pert in his two comeback fights. The boy can still hit. Hope Keith can do as well. See you next week. AL P. S. Here is a tip from the feed box if you like a good story, you sport fans be sure and see the preview next Tuesday night. o . |