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Show Eight Teams Schedule Minor League Play This Summer Over 100 youngsters between the ages of eight and 12 have registered for Minor League baseball, conducted through the city recreation program with Cleo Petty in charge. Enough boys to conduct two, four-team leagues throughout the summer have signed up for the program, Tetty said. Organization Organiza-tion of teams began Wednesday morning following a clinic on fundamentals of the game Tuesday Tues-day morning. Plans call for one league comprised com-prised of boys eight, nine and a few tens to be run off on Monday Mon-day and Wednesday forenoons. The second league will be comprised com-prised of boys, 10, 11 and 12 and will be conducted on Tuesday, Tues-day, Thursday and Friday. Registration, totaling 106, can be broken down for each age group as follows: eight year oldsT 28; nine year olds. 11: 10 year olds, 15: 11 year olds, 23, and 12 year olds, 19. The minor league Is carried on through the recreation department depart-ment as a part of the Little League program. The boys are offered an opportunity to compete com-pete with one another and receive re-ceive supervision and instruction at the same time. |