OCR Text |
Show JUNIOR LEAGUE By HAROLD CllESLElt Sports Editor Standing, of Junior League Tuesday, June 10th W. L. ret. Binghnm 5 1 .833 Copperton 4 2 .666 I'Yoglown 4 2 .400 1 1 in h land Boy 1 4 .200 Lark . 1 5 .166 The first half schedule of the American Lex-ion Junior Baseball League will be completed Saturday Satur-day instead of today on account of the postponement of two games which will be played Frill Fri-ll iv and Saturday. By a victory over Frogtown on Monday, Bingham took a lead on tlu first liaif and n vietnrv nvpr t opperton to-day would give the itinghamites first half honors, should Copperton win this game however, it opens up the possibility possi-bility of a three-team lio-up. Bingham Leads League I5y beating the Frogtown American Am-erican Legion team 26 to 25, the niiigham team climbed into the lo; position, and Copperfield adds ai. other victory to their credit by walloping Highland Boy to the (Mie of 41 to 4. Billy Johnson, the snappy short l p of the Bingham fm, pulled ili.1 game out of the fire when lie was called in from his position to take up the mound duties. He fanned four of the six men that faced him and his teammates gave hi 'ii the much needed support that pit them over the hump. The w ire was 25 to 24 in the last of the seventh. Bolton the first man ip, singled to second and advance ad-vance two bases on Tassinner's double-10 right field. Hutching stepped up to the plate and pasted th.; ball over the second baseman's base-man's head that brought in the two winning runs. Besides his pitching and field-in,?, field-in,?, Lilly Johnson hit four for five, two of which were home ri.ns. The game, although full of errors, er-rors, was a highly exciting one ai d kept the crowd on edge '. I: rough the entire fray. Copperfield had little trouble downing the young.Highland Boy team. Fish, who struck out 12 men, pitched one of the best games of his career and also had wmderful siipport. Twice he was in a hole with two men on bases and twice his team- mates rallied to his support. The American Legion league lias progressed smoo'Jhly and many boys are taking advantage oi this wonderful opportunity to p'ay baseball. Mr. Santistevan, t! e play director at Copperton says that he has an average attendance at-tendance of eighty boys who. enjoy en-joy playing baseball and the in-s in-s ructions that they receive about the game from Mr. Santistevan. Mr. Santistevan has also started start-ed a little American Legion league lea-gue which will be known as the Eskimo Pie League. , Boys under un-der thirteen who are not playing o:i the American Legion teams are eligible for this league. A schedule 'has been drawn up and umpires have been selected to of-fifciat of-fifciat the games. First half schedule sch-edule and names of players will appear in next week's issue, |