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Show Three All-Star Teams Prepare For Tournament Competition Three Cedar City baseball teams, including the Little and Pony League All-stars and the American Legion Junior Jun-ior nine, have been entered in tournaments and all three will begin tournament play next week. First of the three representatives of the city recreation recrea-tion program to see action will be the Pony League All-stars All-stars who begin play on Wednesday, Aug. 1. They will compete with seven other teams in a 4-day tournament at Provo in a double elimination tourney that will continue through Saturday, Aug. 4. The Pony League boys have been working out for the past three weeks and have played three exhibition games to date. The first game was against 15 year old members of the Junior Legion team and the older squad won by a fair margin. Two exhibition ex-hibition games were played against St George Saturday on the local field and the Cedar All-stars All-stars won both contests with Larry Anderson, Lny Smith and Leigh Rosenberg sharing mound duty in the double-header. Saturday afternoon the Pony League All-stars will meet a team from Pangultcb In the last of their exhibiUon performances. They will leave Tuesday, July 31 for the first of regulation tournament tourna-ment play. Both the Little League All-stars All-stars and the Junior Legion team sponsored by Cedar Post 74. will begin tournament play on Thursday, Thurs-day, Aug. 2. The Little League All-stars will open In Reno, Nev., In a district dis-trict tournament that will include in-clude eight teams. Because of the Western Baseball program adopted In northern Utah, an organization that Is not associat-ed associat-ed with Little League, competition competi-tion In Utah was eliminated and tournament officials of the na-tonlal na-tonlal Little League program spotted the local all-stars in the district meet In Reno. That tournament also runs through Saturday, Aug. 4. Win-ner Win-ner of the Reno tournament will advance to the sectional tournament tourna-ment at Sacramento. Calif., and from Sacramento to Santa Monica, Mon-ica, Calif., for the regional tourney. tour-ney. Legion Tourney The state Junior Legion baseball base-ball tournment. again featuring eight teams, will be held at gan on August 2. 3 and 4. The local team won the right to participate par-ticipate in the state tournament by beilng Monroe Junior Legion Wednesday afternoon in a play, off here In Cedar City. (See play-off play-off story elsewhere.) Much Interest has been shown i- .11 of thMa tournament teamsTit is also expected that a good following will be with all three tournament teams In their various playoffs in this area. Manglng personnel for the three teams Is as follows: Pony League All-stars: Cleo petty, manager; Gene Secrlst. coach. i Little League All-stars: Dee Cowan, manager; Ray Lee, coach. Junior Legion: Al Jensen, manager; Orvllle Isom, sponsor representative. However, Kloln Rollo managed the team In the Monroe-Cedar play off Wednesday, Wednes-day, and will handle the squad In the state tournament. The managerial substitution became necessary when Jensen left for the West on a business trip. |