Show Bench Talk BY THE BENCH WARMERS turn to summer ball National sport attendance lag If good habits are lasting the 1949 version of the Ute baseball team will be hard to After a dismal season in conference play most of the team turned in their knocked the mud out of their joined an amateur or semi-pro team and started to When the Pinney Beverage third baseman was injured Frank Nelson stepped into the breach and helped the to top the Industrial In amateur play Clyde Nichols second Jimmy Brown right and Billy Boren hard hitting are currently pacing the loop-leading Bingham nine in the Bonneville Steve a first rate pitching prospect is taking his regular turn on the mound for the place Midvale Why has the so-called national pastime fallen to third rank behind football and basketball on the nation's Close to fans attended the Rose Bowl game between Michigan and By the number normally in attendance at an average college baseball game is less than a Factors contributing to this lack of campus diamond prosperity Pecuniary As compared to baseball does does not pay its weight at the box The weather makes it difficult for college baseball in the In a midwestern 32 ball games were postponed because of And the which comes to a premature end at the close of the college also includes such other spring sports as golf and which football does not have to compete College baseball is considered poor because it is given an unfair comparison with Nearly all outstanding high school football players in these days of subsidization will attend Playing on a college team is the only means a high school boy has of getting the training and hence the recognition which will qualify him to become a pro-football This is not true in the case of Outstanding ballplayers never get to The minor league baseball system provides the training for the baseball players that only the college can provide for football Eliminate the minor league baseball and college baseball would immediately resume its position of equality with There is nothing radically wrong with the national pastime on the Last year the College World Series at between Yale and California provided high caliber Both teams were well trained and there was nothing to be di satisfied If colleges would employ full time baseball coaches and give baseball a better place in their athletic the caliber of baseball would greatly Thus the picture of the campus diamond sport is not all In the Western conference there has been an amazing growth of interest in baseball since the thanks to the interest of The Championship tournament has created more interest in college baseball than anything has for a long |