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Show City Plays Host To Two Tournaments Cedar City, center of youth baseball for the southern Utah area, will be a hive of activity during the week of July 24 as the Utah Little League tournament tourna-ment with eight teams participating partici-pating and an area Pony League tournament with four teams participating, par-ticipating, scheduled. Both tournaments will get underway un-derway Wednesday, July 26 and will run through Saturday, July 29 with the Little League games being played during the afternoon after-noon and the Pony League tournament tour-nament games being played in the evening under the lights. me siaie uiue ueague iuur-nament iuur-nament will get underway Wednesday Wed-nesday with two games to be played Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 2 and 4:30 p. m. The championship game will be played Saturday at 4: 30 p. m. in a single game for that day. Pony League Pony League, which is a double dou-ble elimination tourney, will be played at 7 and 9 p. m. Wednesday, Wednes-day, Thursday and Friday with the possibility of one or two games Saturday. The week has been designated designa-ted as baseball week in a proclamation pro-clamation issued by Mayor Arnold Ar-nold Anderson and the tournament tourna-ment directors are doing all that is possible to make the tournament tourna-ment schedules a complete success. suc-cess. Participating In the Little League tournament will be .all-star .all-star teams from both the National Na-tional and American Little Leagues in Cedar City and from out-of-town league all-star team from two leagues In St. George, Hurricane, Kanab, Milford, Beaver Bea-ver and Nephl. A game will be played earlier in the week at Nephl between Beaver and No-phi, No-phi, however, with only one of the two advancing to the tournament tour-nament here. Single Elimination The Little League event is a single elimination and once a team has lost a single game it will be ineligible to continue contin-ue tournament play. The four teams to participate In the Pony League tournament include Cedar City All-stars, and teams from Kanab, Richfield and Spanish Fork. Teams must suf-two suf-two losses before being eliminated elimina-ted in the event. Winners of the Little League tournament will advance in tournament tour-nament play to Laramie, Wyo. The winner of the Pony League tourney will advance to Black-foot Black-foot Ida. for the next level of play. |