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Show y Tin HJL.(Q)VO o MINERS BLAST . THREE IIURLERS FOR 15-2 VJIil INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE ' W. I Pet. liriKham City ..,.. 5 Provo 4 Gemmell Club ...... 4 Pinney Beverage ..... 3 Magna-Garfield . . . ... 2 Helper Beckers 0 1. 2 2 3 3 7 .833 .667 .667 .500 .400 .000 Wednesday's Rmults Gemmell Clut- 15, provo 2. . Saturday's, Schedule Gemmell Club vs. Pinney Beverage, Bev-erage, Commuplty parK, 8 p.,,m. Feeble v fielding, half-hearted hitting:, and . plcked-on pitchers cost l'rovo a 15-2 pasting at the hands of Gemmell club Wednesday Wednes-day at Bingham. ,;; . . Gemmell'a triumph dropped the Coor Into a aecOnd-place tie with the Miners In Industrial leagues atandinga. Provo can r move Into a tie for first place by tipping the league-leading Brlgham, City crew In an important contest he r Sunday. , ,. 1 It -was Cemmeirs game all the way ; Wednesday as the Miners blasted out 16 hits from three Provo hurlers -while the Coora were playing Jittery ball In the field and bowing to the slants of j Sammy Oliver at the plate. ... Provo had only two hurlers on hand for the gameDeb Dudley and Spot Clegg and neither could halt the Gemmell hitting epree. When Dudley . followed Clegg from the mound In the fifth Inning, Manager Lob Collins tailed tail-ed on LaVar Kump, regular third baseman, ' to take , over mound duties.. . ..v.... . Four Provo errors arid sloppy, fielding on several occasions proved prov-ed no aid to Coors hurlers, and hitting when men were on. base was woefully weak. 'yf : :-y:' .':; ' With men on first and' second in the third, inning as the result of an error and a hit, . 6pot Clegg threw wild to ' second base '. and both Gemmell , players scored to start a five run uprising ; that saw Clegg yelld hurling duties to Dudley. ." . -V.r:,...-. ...v." ; Gemmell refused to let up, and pushed across three more, runs In the fourth inning and four In the fifth to send Dudley from the mound. Kump took over , and held the Miners scoreless until the eighth when they chalked up three . more counters. Provo's tallies came In the fourth frame when Len Page homered inside the park to score behind Glen Berge. ' Oliver pitched 1 steady ball for the winners, and was particularly effective with men on base. . - - Deb Dudley will hurl against BriRham City here Sunday, ac cording to Skipper Collins. PROVO . . , Ab H H A 0 . 0 2 O 0 6 0 0 Gardner, cf. 0 2 Bird, 2b. Kump, 3b.-p. Jensen, If. . . F. Dudley rf , 1 2 2 1 I 1 0 0 0 Berge, as. Page, lb. Overly, c. Clegg. p. 0 0 0 2 1 0 Ii. Dudley, p, Collins, 3b. . Totals . . . . ....... 37. 10 24 10 GEMMELL ' . Ab II H A Wilson, 2b. ........ 4 Fielder, 2b. 1 Kastelllc, cf. ...... 8 Valcheck, 3b. Jt Sluga, lb. . ... j...... 5 Zaccarla, If. . . . . . , . 1 3 Sumnlcht, rf. 4 Robertson,, c.... 6 Johnson, ss. , f , , . ... 5 Oliver, p. ........ ., 4 3 0 3 2 2 3 0 2 2 0 14 1 14 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 1 3 1 0 3 1 0 Totals .... :. ... 40 16 27 13 Score by Innings; . ; r -. -Provo ...... 000 200 0002 Cemmell Club 05 340 03x 15 Summary: , Errors Bird, Berge, Clegg, D. Dudley Valcheck, Robertson. Rob-ertson. Stolen base-r-Kump.'Kob ertson, Johnson. Sacrifice hits-Page, hits-Page, Sluga, Oliver. ; Two-base hits Bird, Sumnlcht, Sluga. Three-base hit Kastelllc. Home run Page. Struck out by Clegg 1, Dudley 1, Kump 3, . Oliver 1. Hit with pitched ; ball Sumnlcht f.y Dudley; Oliver , by Kump. Charge defeat to Clegg. Umpires Barney and Hlnes. , , .... North' Parle Pool -: To Open At Night u J : ; Swimming at night under lights Is available for adults twice weekly, week-ly, according , to E. Reed . (Lob) Collins, recreation director. On Tuesdays and Thursdays of Now Is the Time to guild on UW1 . Vou should immediately take advantage of our complete com-plete loan service for the building of that new home or to modernize your present home. We are continu ally building and improving homes in this community. Our easy terms and low interest rate have made us many friends and satisfied home owners. Contact us immediately for full. details. Quick and effi'cient'service will be given. . .. Curtis Insurance Agency, Inc.' 174 W. Center, Trovo . Our Telephone Is No. 86 Cizzling 6arc!3 Tip DessTipo To EntGnd Driu BY GEORGE KIMLSEY NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (OR) The St. Louis Cardinals got- started too late. They are now playing the beat ball in the National league but their early season flop virtual ly eliminates them as pennant contenders. Since July 11 the Cards have won 17 games and lost 4 for an .810 average.. Not even the red- hot Reds can match that pace, having won only 15 and lost e.dur Ing a similar period. By knocking off the Boston Bees twice yester day, the Cards moved up to within half a game of .500 per cent. They are definitely a first division clut? and might even move up as high as second in the stretch drive. Billy Southworth has. proved he's a major league pilot since he took over the Cards June 14. The Cards weri in seventh place that morning with a record of 15 wins and 29 defeats for a percentage of 341. Under Southworth St. Louis has won 29 games and . lost 16 ror a .o percentage. By clipping the bees in yester day's doubleheader, 3-1 (11 , In nings) and 17-8, the Cards moved within half a game of. the fourth- place Cubs who lost again to the Phillies, T to 3. t t Giants Win Ninth inning home runs by Bur gess Whitehead and Hank Dan-ning, Dan-ning, each with one on, brought the New York Giants a 5-4 victory vic-tory over Bucky Walters and the Cincinnati Reds before 30,334 fans at the Pold Grounds. ; The Cubs suffered a costly loss at- Philadelphia. Gabby Hartnett was hit in the head when Mel Mazzera's bat slipped Striking out and had -to retire. . Augie Ualan crashed Into " the concrete wall chasing ; Ilam ' Sehulte's foul fly and was taken to the hospital witn possibly two; fractured knees. : The Detroit Tigers and " Cleveland Cleve-land Indians fought from behind to win and maintain their American Amer-ican league 'deadlock. The Tigers beat the Yanks, 7-6 in the 11th. The Red Sox did another fold-up blowing a 7-run lead, as the Indians In-dians triumphed, 12-11. , -Washington slugged out a 13-5 victory over the Browns before 591 spectators, St.' Louis' smallest crowd of the season. ' The Philadelphia Athletics beat the, Chicago White Sox, 4-3, at Comlskey park. o STANDINGS Pioneer League r ' r w. u pet, Salt Lake ......... 62 31 .667 Boise i 54 33 J587 Pocatello 44 49 .473 Idaho Falls ........ 43 49 .467 Ogden 43 51 .457 Twin .Falls 32 60 .348 ' . . Wednewda-y Results. , Salt Lake 4, Pocatello 1. . .Ogden 4, Twin Falls 3. ' Boise 1-7, Idaho Falls 0-8. i (first game seven innings).' American League! W. L. 67 38 C7, 38 Pet. Detroit . Cleveland .600 .600 .532 Boston 60 44 New York i ......... 48 44 Chicago . . 46 44 Washington ... , ,... 42 55 Philadelphia i ...... 38 56 .522 .511 .433 .404 St. Louis 39 58 .402 Wednesday's Results . ' Philadelphia 4, Chicago 3. i Detroit 7, New York 6 (11 innings.) in-nings.) - ; Washington 13,' St. Louis 5. " Cleveland 12, Boston 11. ,' I National League W. Y. Pet. 61 29 .678 54 37 .593 49 39 .557 49 49 J600 44 45 .494 42 46 .477 32 56 .364 29 69 .330 Cincinnati Brooklyn L New York St. Louis Pittsburgh Philadelphia ...... Boston ....!.... .Wednesday's Results New York 5, Cincinnati 4. j Philadelphia 7, Chicago 3.. St- Louis 3-17, Boston 1-8 (first game 11 innings). , (Only games scheduled). each week, the North park pool will be ' open for adult swimmers from '. 7 to 10 p. m. .with F lights and swimming : supervision provided pro-vided under the direction of Lee Buttle, Collins said, l . : PAGE FOUK Women's Tennis Mary Taylor, left, receives the Vincent trophy from Mrs. Paul for her feat in winning the Provo women's tennis championship. iieoer rem, WIN.CU. GABES w. ..'4 2 2 2 1 L. Pet 0 1.000 2 .500 Heber City i Nephl Spanish Fork 3 4 2 .400 .333 .333 Levan. Genola Wednesday's Results Nephi 8, Levan 2. Heber 10, , Spanish Fork 4. - Sunday's Schedule Nephi at Spanish Fork. Levan at Genola." ' Hiawatha at Heber. , Heber City, first half champion in Central Utah league play, continued con-tinued its runaway of the second half race Wednesday by downing Spanish Fork, 10-4. Nephi leap f rogged from last to second place in the league with an 8-2 decision over Levan. In notching . up : , its triumph, Heber pushed across three runs in the first frame, and then trail ing, 4-3, blasted seven counters across in the seventh to clinch the contest. " i Nephi scored six runs in the first frame to clinch its victory over Levan. Southeast Teams Win Net Contests Southeast Juniors handed Northwest North-west netters their first defeat in lntra-city tennis competition Tues day a 3-2 . trouncing. Southeast boys came up with another triumph, tri-umph, defeating the Northwest team in the boys league, 3-2. , Junior results: Wally Ripple, SK, defeated Earl Wallace, 6o3, 6-3; Don Allen, NW, defeated Bob Dean, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; Mack Jensen, SE, defeated - Frank Jensen, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5; Don Allen-Allan Kldge, NW defeated Bob Bean-Junior Andrews, 3-66-3, 8-6; Wally Hippie," Hip-pie," Mack Jensen, SE, defeated Earl : Wallace-Frank Jensen, 7-5, 6-4. Boys' results Dean Clark, SE, defeated Robert Rigby, . 8-6, 6-3; Dick Clark, SE, defeated Dean' Rigby, 6-0, 6-1: DeVoe Wallace. NW, defeated Keith Pierce, 6-0, o-i; Dick Clark-Dean Clark. SE. defeated Royce Ridge-Ray Pratt, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Kent Taylor-Devoe Wallace, - NW. defeated Keith Plerce-Dlck Clark, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0. Coast League . ' W. , L. Pet Seattle 83 43 .659 Oakland V 69 58 r .543 Los 'Angeles ....... 65 60 .520 Sacramento .'. 63 65 .492 San Francisco ...... 58 60 .492 Hollywood. 62 64 .492 San Diego 61 64 .483 Portland . . . . . . . 42 83 .336 .. Wednesday's Results San Francisco 11-5, Portland 7-1 Los Angeles 1-2, Seattle 2-1. Hollywood 5, Sacramento 2. San Diego 1, Oakland 0. RETURNS TO NEW YORK Mrs. H. W. Bentley, who with her small son, Charles, has been visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. LaRay Decker, has returned to New York by plane. Word was received today that she arrived safely and had an. en- '. joyable trip. DAILY HERALD, Champion Receives More Than 1500 People Witness First Annual Provo Water Carnival With colored ljghts and a spray of water providing a unique background, back-ground, the first annual Provo water carnival was staged Wednesday Wed-nesday evening at North , park pool before an enthusiastic audience audi-ence . of. 1500 people.- t ' Featured by" beautiful : formation forma-tion swimming and the faultless form of Bud Shields, former national na-tional - intercollegiate . champion, the affair was a colorful beginning begin-ning of an annual carnival. Marion Olsen and; Dorothy Richmond directed di-rected the show. ' (. , j Swim Exhibition A lovely walta, formation swimming swim-ming .exhibition opened the event, with the following girls participating: partici-pating: ' June-; Rlchlns, Jean Need-ham, Need-ham, NeU Stevens, Kathleen Mad-Jen, Mad-Jen, Bonnie Bell, Elaine Hurst, Viola ClarkMargaret Hoover; Dorothy Hurst, Eleanor Gammell, Nerene LttchflelL Male Pinnea, and Dorothy Richmond. Ten, 12-year old boys staged a clever group formation swimming and diving act using the crawl stroke and various dives. Boys who participated in this .event were: Melvin Dalebout, Gordon Lewis, LeRoy Draper, Richard Lee, Elroy Rlchlns, Lynn Powell, Mark Graham, Hal Fielding, Robert Rob-ert Rigby and Kenneth MltcheU. Four of - Provo's outstanding swimmers demonstrated . various types of swimming strokes. Bud Shields . showed the crawl stroke that carried him to national fame; Paul Henrichsen -demonstrated the back crawl; Charles Thomas show ed correct form of the breast Prouo Hits, Fioltls Scoond In Industrial League First Provo basebaU club finished sec ond in first half Industrial league standings and that is just where they finished In team batting and fielding, according to statistics released re-leased today by William D. Kidd, league statistician. The Timps now the Coors batted .326 in the first half cam paign to finish behind Brlgham City for hitting laurels. Gemmell led the loop in fielding, but Provo was. close behind with a .956 av erage.; The surprising Brigham crew, - which finished fifth, in league standings, batted .354, and Gemmell fielded .959 to lead In these departments. . , Occie Evans, Brigham City second sec-ond baseman, captured individual batting honors with blistering .464. Dee, Matson, Plnney center fleld-er, fleld-er, was ; second with a .441 average.; av-erage.; ..--::"!' Kump Hits .403 LaVar Kump paced Provo hitting hit-ting : with a .403 average, which was good enough to place him fifth in the league. Len Page, Provo first baseman, belted .397 to take eighth in the league. Page and Kump were the only 'Provo players to finish among the first ten. ... . Earl (Spot) Clegg had the best record of any Provo pitcher, winning win-ning four games and losing none. Ralph Crowton won four and lost two, and Deb Dudley copped five and lost three. Dudley led the THURSDAY, AUGUST Vincent Trophy D. Vincent, doner of the award, stroke, and Dick Passey used the side stroke. ; ' In the 40-yard dash. Bud Shields proved he has not lost' his amazing amaz-ing speed by winning the event from a fast field. Charles Thomas Thom-as was. second and., DicK, passey placed third. Four Provo youths staged a, surprising sur-prising showing when tney pushed push-ed ; the all-star relay team of Bud - Shields, Dick Passey, Bert Olsen, and Cloyd Booth to the finish fin-ish in a close race. Members of the speedy young group were Junior LeDuc, Keith Jones, Lynn Hurst, and Reese Jameson. Four boys, all under nine years of age, provided an exceUent diving div-ing exhibition. Garth Dixon, Jerry Murphy, Phillip Spencer and Dee Thomas were the youthful divers. Girls formation swimming with cartwheel floating proved one of the most ' popular events of the show. .-.'-- A comic life saving exhibition contrasted with a demonstration of proper life saving methods by Phyllis . Brown, Dick Passey and Paul Henrichsen. - A fancy diving exhibition by Anita Watson, Eleanor Gammell, Charles Thomas, Bert Olsen, 'Dick Passey, and Cloyd Booth was another an-other feature of the carnival. Lovely balloon swimming formations for-mations by the girls providea a fitting fit-ting cUmax to the evening's program. pro-gram. .;, ... ., William Connell, Bill Andrews, and Harvey Pace aided Dorothy Richmond and Mr. Olsen in stag- ing the show. -vs- Half league in strikeouts, whiffing 47 batters. Provo paced the circuit In stolert bases, pilfering 4l sacks during the 18-game schedule. Lee Christiansen Chris-tiansen won individual base stealing steal-ing honors by stealing 11 times. Len Page smashed four triples to lead the circuit in . three-ply blows. Page and Kump each batted in 20 runs to finish high in that department. , Leading Hitters -First; ten hitters in the league are: Occie Evans, Brigham City, .464; Mattson, Pinney, .441; Mori, Magna-Garfield, . .420; Barton, Magna-Garfleld, .413; Kump, Provo, Pro-vo, .403; Cowley, Brigham City, .403; Hancey, Brigham City, .400; Page, Provo, .397; Wilson, Gemmell, Gem-mell, .391; Moeser, Magna-Garfield, .388. . : . Provo hitters, not listed In the first ten, batted as follows: Shurt- liff, .371; Christiansen, .368; F. Dudley, .355; A. Jensen, .354; Berge, .333; Overly, .319; Clegg, .316: D. Dudley, .276; Chrlsten- sen, .263; Collins, 190; Klenda, 167; Gardner, .138; Crowton, .059. . BIG LAMB CROP SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 1 (UJ? Utah's 1940 lamb crop today Was forecast at 1,594,000 head, an Increase of 21,000 head over 1939, by Frank Andrews, federal agricultural agri-cultural marketing service etatis-, tician. 1, 1940 Prouo Pard:3 Gup Jailors Tip tclii Provo Pardoe cup tennis team remained undefeated in league competition by turning in an impressive im-pressive 5-0 triumph over Lehl netters here Wednesday. Ability of Provo netters to apply the pressure in the third set determined victories in three matches. Provo ylays 'Payson Monday and then meets the champion cham-pion of the Magna-Garfield district. dis-trict. . - Grant Hickman dropped . the first set, 1-6, to Don Evans, Lehl, and then came back strong to cop the next two, 6-1, 6-3, to win the No. 1 singles match. : Bud Harmon Har-mon had less trouble "in disposing dispos-ing of Allen Chlpman, 6-4, 6-2. Harmon and Hickman teamed to win the top doubles match, 6-1, 8-6, from Chlpman and Evans. In the third singles. Bill Chris-ler Chris-ler downed Grant Ash, Lehl, 6-1, 6-8, 6-1, and teamed with Doug Busterud to win the No. 2 doubles, 6-2, 2-6, 9-7, from Grant Ash and Darrell Allred. ANNUAL MIDSUMMER SALE VALUES 13-PLATE BATTERY SPECIAL! REGULARLY tftCIAL $4.95 S395 (with your old batury) - FORD SPECIAL 15 PLATES! REGULARLY SMC41 55.95 51.95 (with your old featUrr) D0YS GIRLS JOIN THE GOODYEAR lll-VMY PATROL Ertry hoy or girl btwta the egs oi S and IS who owns a bieycl can loin. You simply promiso lo study tho traffic rulos carefully , . . . and to abido by thm. FHCE T Hi-Way Patrol Mmbr J A bandsomo rocmborehip cortiiicato. 2 A membership mbUra. 3 Fro subscription to Goodyoar HI-WAY j PATROL HEWS. It's Eaty to JinJut A$h th Managtr Thia Storm GOODYfAR'S brand-new D Iff TO I lino of 4 For BOYS GIRLS MEN WOMEN RELIANCE Boys' tt)ll model. Priced low LL RtUANCt Boy $OC95 and girls' models . J HI-WAY FATkOL $0145 Streamlined . . 01 DELUXE One cl )0Q3S the lined . . . . 3 JUNIOR Young- JOCSS stere' ... . . . LJ EASY-PAY TERMS new HORNS WINGS STANDARD. Full Tolume. fine tone. A warning warn-ing signal that gets actionl A BIG VALUE ST)19 AT ONLY Cla WINGS SPECIAL $133 TWIN HORNS, only tf GOOD YE AH 'Mil 140 WEST CENTER Former Location of JOHN T. TAYLOR Provo, Utah iffi GARRETT HEADS HORSESHOE CLUB Oscar Garrett, veteran horseshoe horse-shoe pitcher of Provo, wa3 elected elect-ed president of the Provo Horseshoe Horse-shoe club at an organization meeting Wednesday night. Other officers named were Arthur Ar-thur Ivle, vice president; Lloyd Crawford, secretary - treasurer, and T. ii McGinnia, membership chairman. V. L. Dahlen, vice president of the state association, was In charge of the meeting. Another meeting was called for Monday at 7 p. m. in the fire hall, when activities of the club will be mapped. In the meantime, Mr. Garrett will compile a set or rules and regulations to 'be submitted. sub-mitted. Gordon Weignt was authorized to contact the city commission to request that a central horseshoe horse-shoe court be established .at one of the city parks. Approximately 20 persons have registered with the club thus far, and the membership la expected to reach 40 by Utah county fair time early in September when a LOOK HOW FAT DADDY'S GOT ON HIS HOLIDAY! A great guaranteed value sees on sal asairt at i these startling low prices! COODYEAR'S NEW A 1 1 A M P I? I r n r J ' nkfe-niiibiiisnu , TIRE NOW ONLY 4.7S-19or 5JJ0-13SIZE 5305 5315 6X0-16 5.25-17 or SIZE 53-17 SIZE Cath prices with your old tiro EASY-PAY TERMS USE YOUR GOODYEAH'S FAMOUS r.iAnATiion tihe f V I V r tOW COST. . -"..KICHfAUJE GOODYEAR SEQUIOE 81 PHONE 17S0 140 Former Ixcalion Prouo Coys Cccuy For Csiiucr r.Tosi Two youthful Provo netters are among the 12 Utah players who will compete in the Intermountain tennis tournament at the Denver country club next week. Several other Provo netters are contemplating contem-plating participation in the tour-r.ey. tour-r.ey. Bob Booth ar.d L e Kn-ll are the Provo jouths who have indicated in-dicated they will attend the Denver Den-ver meet. Knell will play in me boys division, with Booth slated to see action in both the boys and junior division. Other Utah netters who will participate in the tourney are: Frank Mehner. Dan Freed, and Jimmy Eakins, who will play in the men's events; Ceo Sinnard, Allen Hardy, Bill Koch. Chauncey Peterson, and Cal Nelson in the junior division; Keith ElUrtson and Eob Lence, in the boys events. county meet will be held, states Mr. Dahlen. Qualifying meets will be arranged ar-ranged for selection of a l'ruvo team. yes-he's all puffed up over WHAT HE SAVED AT WlfilUWAL J. CREDIT jc ZnUt to outperform tlrte cld hy chain lore. and ether tires. In Its price class. OUY SETS OF 4. 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