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Show Bingham District Junior Baseball By PAUL HANSON The boys of the Biiijiham District Dis-trict are again being enrolled in the American Legion Junior baseball base-ball program. Over 300,000 b ys played baseball last year under this direction, and the way the country is taking it up this year again there will probably be over 400,XX) enrolled this year. The program is now five years old, however, its present set up only dates from 1928 when the country was divided into 12 Region, Re-gion, .Jiese regions were then grouped into Eastern and Western West-ern sections. The national elimination elim-ination is started by local teams playing in a district tournament, the wiuneib then playing in a state tournament, from this tihey go into the regional, the section and then into the national junior world series. The underwriting of the pro- gram by the National and American Ameri-can Leagues since 1928 goes a long way in insuring the success of the national competition as it makes possible the transportation transporta-tion of the teams to the regional and sectional tournaments and the Junior Worlds Series. In 1929 the Junior Worlds Series was played at Louisville, Kentucky, between New Orleans and Buffalo. Judge Landis commissioner com-missioner of baseball tossed out te first ball and Graham Mc-Namcc, Mc-Namcc, the famous sports announcer an-nouncer broadcast the games play by play. Buffalo won the iirst game, New Orleans the second, sec-ond, and Buffalo the third, giving the championship to Buffalo. In addition to their title, the Buffalo Buf-falo team won a trip to the big world Series as guests of the Na-tional Na-tional and American Leagues. This year Bingham District Ktarts off a 45-game schedule on the 19th of May at the Utah Copper Cop-per Ball Park.' Games will be played every evening at 5:00 o'clock except Sunday. The Wednesday Wed-nesday game however will always be played at Lark. This local ieague is sponsored jointly by the Legion Post and the Kiwanis club and at the end of it the winners win-ners will be presented with suitable suit-able individual awards. " A change was made by the officers of-ficers of the league this year in that an all-star team will represent repre-sent the Bingham American Le- gion Post in the District Tourna-Iment Tourna-Iment which starts July 25. The winners of the various district tournaments will compete in the state tournament at Provo during dur-ing the Legion Convention to be held there August 7-9 inclusive. AH boys whose 17th birthday does not come before September 15, 1930, are eligible to play. The finances necessary to carry car-ry on the Bingham League will be raised in the next tew weeks by the chairmen of the various districts. New suits for the boys will not be needed this year so that this years program will not require so much money. |
