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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Bingham lost to Monroe at Monroe 3 to 0 last Friday. In a pitchers battle between Shipp of Monroe and Cowdell of the Miners, Min-ers, Shipp only gave the locals three hits and struck out 14 men. Cowdell allowed five hits and struck out 12. They tell me the ball field should be called "Ho-gan's "Ho-gan's brick yard". Don Overley, the American Fork coach whose team plays Monroe for the championship cham-pionship told me he was trying to get the game transferred on account of the field at the south-, em school. It isn't an excuse for our loss because if you can't hit you can't score and you just don't win without runs. But the team had a real good year and some fine looking young talent was developed. Marion Cowdell is through as a high school pitcher, and the tall left hander has a record that will really take some beating. In his high school career he has won 32 and lost but 3. Marion aspires to play pro ball and I hope I am lucky enough to land him for the Giants. The local entry in the Northwest North-west League has won one and lost one. They lost to Midvale but "Cotton" Sumnicht pitched a six hitter to shut out Layton 6 to 0 as Sanchez hit a homer and a double, to pace the Miners. Magna beat Midvale in the other game of the week 3 to 2. So you see the teams are playing good ball and the league is loaded with good young talent. Saw Moore work out for his sive joint installation of officers I ceremony and banquet at which the Brigham City drill team presented pre-sented the new officers were some of the highlights of the two day convention. ime aeiense against Maxim in Ogden on June 24th. The champ looked in good shape for this early. He will start neavy training train-ing at Jensen's West Jordan farm next week. Maxim and his manager, man-ager, the one and only Jack Kearns arrived in town Tuesday and Joey has a limbering up drill at the Ace gym Wednesday. Says he is a 183 but looks bigger. But has plenty of time to get down to the lgihtheavy limit of 175. Savold and Noble are his sparring sparr-ing partners. This is quite a let down for Savold, a few years ago he was a leading contender for the heavyweight crown. Jack Kearns has some fond memories of Utah. For it gave him the champion of champions, Jack Dempsey. This pair made a great fortune together. But Jack was always a fast man with a buck and how much of his he has left is just a guess, but in his sixties he still looks the part. He and Maxim are getting a pretty good pay day at Ogden, $25,000 guarantee. guar-antee. Jack McCarthy, the new pro-motor pro-motor in Salt Lake tells me he has Rex Layne lined up for a couple of outdoor shows for this summer at the fairgrounds. Jack did right well with his first show and as I said before he will give the fans a run for their money. See you next week, AL o |