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Show 'JUNIOR LEAGUERS : MAKE SHOWING i i i With only the unfortunate break- ing of the leg of Catcher Bill NiehoU i to mar the trip, Milford's Junior I League Baseball team returned from ' Price Saturday night, ulong with accompanying ac-companying fans who, with the ten- der of their cars, made the trip possible. pos-sible. The fact that the lads did not capture better than sixth place in the ,-tate tournament conducted under j the auspices of the American Legion, is not felt to be any disgrace. I Except for the opening contest on; Thursday, when the local lads, suf- fering from over-anxiety or some-i thing, made some fourteen errors and permitted the Helper team to tram-j pie over them by a score of 23-3, thei Milford boys made a creditable show-j ing. The next day they vanquished their Hurricane rivals by a score of! 20-15 and without more than half-trying, half-trying, already being pretty sure of what they could do to the Dixieites. The final game in which the locals engaged was one of the outstanding games of the series. The Hooper: team, edged out of the championship flight the day before by Wolfe's of Salt Lake, the team which captured! the meet, managed to snare the game from Milford only by a phenomenal j rally when they went to bat in the last half of the ninth inning with the; score tied at 4-all the game ending 1 7-4. i Young Nichols, brilliant little j catcher for the Milford team, broke, his leg a short distance above the ankle and otherwise sprained thej limb as he ran into the home plate! near the finish of the first game. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Nichols, Nich-ols, vjere with the team and they immediately im-mediately came home with the in-1 jured lad, who is doing nicely, but will find his injuries seriously interfering inter-fering with a promising career in basketball. A strenuous pre-tournament week, in which the Miford boys played ball on Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Monday Mon-day and Tuesday and traveling 94G milesbefore making the strenuous trip to Price, would be alibi enough for most any team, but Manager J. Cass Root and the members of his fine team of good sportsmen are not looking for an excuse but rather another crack at the championship next year. |