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Show WEEK END WITH THE YOUNGER SET (By Klien Rollo) Sixteen boys, . . well, 14, plus a couple of adult chaperones, in SaJt Lake City for three days, provide interesting material for stories. That was the case with the Cedar City Little League team last week end in connection withj the sectional tournament which they won. They had a lot of fun, provided a million laughs and generally thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Upon arrival in the capital city Thursday evening the boys were feted at a dinner at Hotel New-house New-house and that is when the fun began. For instance, Doug Mc-Knight, Mc-Knight, 12 years old, started things going at the dinner when the waitress had to cut his meat. Doug indicated "that I don't know how to cut this fancy stuff." Take in Pioneer Game From the meal the boys moved to Derks Field where they saw a game between the Salt Lake Bees and the Magic Valley Cow- ! boys of the Pioneer League. Following Fol-lowing the game Wilson Lunt offered to take some of the boys to the dormitory located at Fort Dougles and that started some more fun. After the main body of the , team had arrived at its quarters, i there was a considerable wait for Mr. Lunt and the car load ! of boys that he was taking to the Fort. WUson had not been , to the dorm so he didn't know for sure where to go and with five boys shouting directions, and believe me, they shout, things got just a little mixed up. After waiting for about 30. to 45 minutes min-utes we decided to try to find them and lo-and-behold ran across them out on a lawn within with-in about four blocks of the joint. Wilson gave up on the boys' (they really didn't know where they were going), and he was phoning the dorm when we met them. . Target of Opportunity The next morning a few of the early birds hit the decks about six and started the fireworks. At seven I stuck my head in one room to advise them about chow and three pillows, thrown from three different directions, hit. At that same moment one of the J boys, believe it was Leigh Rosen-1 berg, recognized who it was and if you ever heard the patter of bare feet you heard it then they j were off and running. Things went pretty smoothly, until 12:30 when we were met by, the pojice department and other officials of the tournament for an escorted ride through down-! town Salt Lake and out to the L. C. Romney park where the! tournament was to be played.' Some outstanding opening cere-1 monies were held and Salt Lake, Ensign All-stars met the Pocatel-' lo All-stars in the opening game, at 3 Friday afternoon. j Make Like Tourists The following morning, Saturday, Satur-day, after a little celebration on the victory Friday night at the Ambassador Hotel courtesy of Wilson Lunt; he took the boys up to the hotel and arranged for the meal for the whole shebang, and treated the boys in a royal manner we took the boys to the "This Is the Place" monument and the Zoo for a brief visit. We were scheduled for a rest following follow-ing lunch so we took the boys to Sugar House to pick up some comics and books to read while they were lying down. We left Sugar House at about 11:15 heading for the University campus for lunch at 11:30. we were halfway through the meal when Sam Chamberjain asked, "Where's Doug McKnight?" After Af-ter a few questions of our own we discovered that Doug went shopping for a present for his mother at Sugar House and he hadn't returned to the car. Reluctant Purse We headed back to Sugar House and let the boys out to cover the area to find him. About five minutes after our return to the place where we left him, Wilson Wil-son Lunt came to the rescue, bringing Doug back to the spot. He had run across him at a service ser-vice station where he was asking ask-ing the direction to Fort Douglas. On the return trip to the Fort I asked Doug, "What were you going to do?" "Well," he said, "I was going to flag down a taxi but my wallet said, No! No! No." Well, there were a Jot of other incidents too. These are just a few, but the experience is one that will never be forgotten by I the boys and surely not by me. |
