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Show Gunners Organize For 1934 Season t Organization of baseball in Gunni-( Gunni-( son, preparatory to entering the Southern Utah Baseball league, was ' perfected Friday evening of last week I when officers were chosen to pilot the team throughout the coming summer. sum-mer. Ben Childs was named as.presi-: as.presi-: dent, and Richard Gledhill was chos-I chos-I en as secretary-treasurer. Lee Ballard j was chosen as team manager,' and ) likely the local club will be represented repre-sented on the board of control in the league by C. E. Andersen. While many of the eligibles were not present at the Friday night meeting, meet-ing, a sufficient number were out to name officers and start the enthusiasm. enthus-iasm. The Gunnison boys definitely decided to again become members of the Southern Utah Baseball league, with which they have been affiliated for several years past, advancing the theory that by playing with the better bet-ter teams they will gain knowledge in the great American game. The. boys refused to become members" of the Sanpete league, which includes Ephraim, Mayfield, Spring City, Fairview, Moroni and Manti. In as much as Wilford Bauer, ace i pitcher for the Gunners last season, ! is now enlisted with the U. S. Mines crew for the season, the absence of Tony Villard in California and Ab Modeen planning out-of-town work, the locals will muster in some of the younger boys who played on the second sec-ond string last year. Some likely material ma-terial was developed among the younger players last season, and much will depend on their performances. perform-ances. Nevertheless, Gunnison will have a team in the league, and one that will have some surprises for opposition op-position players. The league will, besides Gunnison, have in the line-up for the season Salina, Richfield,. Scipio, Elsinore and possibly Monroe. . A regular playing-schedule playing-schedule will be arranged May 6th. |