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Show June, 1945 THE CENTERVILLE NEWSETTE Page Four SPORTSMAN SPORTS Looks Back Phil Sessions Runs Loco In Region Two Annual Track And Field Meet At U of . . . An Interview With Sterling Rollins U By Clint Barber About 1920 a tall, gangly kid named Sterl Rollins became bat-bo- y for the Centerville baseball team. And there probably wasnt a more avid baseball fan in Cen held while they lugged him off the field. Dave Roberts played third base for quite some time, and had an exceptionally strong arm. He was so good, in fact he would take a grounder and then stand flatfooted and rub the ball in his mitt, with brother Lank yelling frantically for him to throw to first. Just as the runner was about to hit the initial sack, Dave would let him go and nab him with a perfect throw. Lank cussed him between innings but Dave still continued to throw late. It was luck Lank was a sure-fieldin- first-basema- n. g e In Sterls opinion, Loyal and Elmer Barber both Bet-tridg- were good enough to have made the Big Time. Elmer was a whiz until he played for a team while on a mission to the south states. He pitched two games in one day and threw his arm. He wasnt quite the same after that. Loyal Bettridge was the most natural player Centerville ever had, and could have made major leagues had he taken a more interested attitude. Of all the ball players Sterling d Rollins saw in his years with them, he makes the follow20-od- e team: ing his Catchers: Harvey Hancock and Tom White; Infielders Lank and Dave Roberts, Cal Woolley, Stub White, and Bill Evans; Outall-tim- terville at that time, than Sterl Rollins. One of his earliest recollections, he tells us, was something Phil Sessions of Davis, high point man in region two meet. He d won the high jump, broad jump and the dash. 100-yar- Darts Rate Fourth In Utah State Joust Centervilles king of the cin- ders, Phil Sessions, had himself a field day Saturday, May 5, as he rang up 26 points in the Region Two track meet at the U stadium. The Davis Darts won the meet without even exerting themselves. Scoring in every event, they rolled up 121 points, to 59 for Murray. Granite, last years champion, came third. Phil scored in four events. He was the first man to break the d dash, with tape in the a time of 10 and seconds; first in the high jump, with a leap of 5 feet 10 inches; and first in the broad jump with 20 feet 2 inch. To finish the day he was anchor man on the wind ning relay team (Sessions, Don Perkins, Dick Cowley and Mark Cowley, in 1:38). Phils teammate, Don Perkins, came close behind with 23 points, by way of firsts in the high and low hurdles, second in the broad jump, and as a member of the relay team. The North wards Wes Ogze-wall- a walked off with high mark in the javelin with a toss of 163.5 feet, and Dick Wallace won the 100-lar- 4-- 880-yar- 10 mile run in 4:53. Ogzewalla was also second in the discus and shotput. A quartet of runners composed of Cook, Hepworth, Flint and Wallace won the Medley relay in 3:57.3. Fourth place was the best the Darts could do in the state meet with 29 V4 points. North Cache won the meet with 40, South was second, and East muscled in third. d Phil was second in the dash, and it was so close that had he been only a split second faster, the Darts would have defeated North Cache in points. The winner of the dash was Smith of North Cache who led the scoring for the afternoon. Phil was sixth in the high-jum- p and lead-of- f man in the 880 yard run, in which the Darts took second, to North Cache also. The four in this run were Sessions, Dick Bowman, Don Perkins and Dick Egan. Perkins took the only Dart first place, running the low hurdles in :23.1, just barely off the state record. Wes Ogzewalla was fourth in the discus and javelin, Dick Bowman was secd ond in the run. 100-yar- 880-yar- quite peculiar about Austin Duncan, outfielder. Austin was a dead rightfield hitter, and usually always hit the ball on the ground, or close to the ground, at least. On the older Centerville diamond, the grass in the out- field was almost a foot high, and when a grounder hit that, it stopped. While Austin was a sharp hitter, he was slow afoot. The ether teams gradually got on to his weakness of hitting the grass; so when they came to Centerville, the outfield would play Austin up to the edge of the grass. It wasnt unusual for Austin to be thrown out at first bv an outfielder. V Later, when Sterl managed the team, Bert Sheldon, playing his first year, at shortstop, set what Sterl believes is still an all-tim- e Centerville record. Bert was leadoff man, and he hit a triple on his first time at bat in every one of the first seven games. Funniest thing to Sterl was about Ed Everetts knockout swing. In a particularly interesting game, he swung at a fast pitch too hard, missed it and swung clear around off balance. His spikes became entangled in the ground or something and he tripped. The ball finished its arc and clubbed poor Ed right on top of the coco. The game was fielders Alton Cleveland, Ru-lc- n Smith, Orval Leek, Lester Walton, Allen Beers, Ves Harrison and Austin Duncan; Pitchers Loyal Bettridge and Elmer Barber. o SPORTSPOURRI Davis is in a new athletic league for the second time in two years. Beginning with the fall season, it will be known as the Big Seven with Davis, East, Granite, South, West, Jordan, and a new member, Ogden. The teams which bye each week will probably play Carbon. Later both Carbon and Provo may enter the league . . . Don Perkins was awarded the Dr. Keith D. Barnes athletic medal, which has been awarded for 18 years. Don starred in track, basketball, and football . . . Loyal Bettridge is up to his old tricks again. Back with the D & R G baseball team, he socked out four for four recently as the Railroadmen defeated West Jordan, 13-- 4 . . . Ves and Bob Harrison are playing softball for Pepper Metal of the Salt Lake Recreational league, and doing right well for themselves. In the first game, which the metal team won, Bob scored one run and cut off two runs at the plate in a great game behind the plate. Ves scored the tying run and drove in the winning run in a 1 victory over Red Fox and the S. L. Firemen. 10-inni- ng 2-- |
