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Show Mayor To Pitch First Ball To Open Season Play Of A. F. Softball Association Mayor Albert Tregaskis will step onto the mound, wind up and pitch to Chairman Jesse M. Walker of the Recreation Rec-reation committee, Monday night at the lighted softball field, and the American Fork Softball association's league play will get under way. Calling the balls and strikes at the opening ceremonies will be Bert Christensen, secretary of the American Ameri-can Fork Softball association, and City Councilman Hudson Gordon will be the catcher. Immediately following the "first pitch", teams of the city league will swing into action, with a three-game three-game program scheduled for the evolving. evo-lving. Griffin Bakery and A & W, Utah Poultry and Alpine City, and Nielsen Auto and Nye & Nissen will battle for first-night vistories. The night's activities, which will start at 7 o'clock, will include entertainment en-tertainment features as well as the softball games. The softball association has extended ex-tended an invitation to the entire community to be on hand for the event, and is preparing to provide an evening of entertainment for all. An important innovation which will be used for the first time Monday Mon-day night will be a loud-speaker system. By broadcasting announcements announce-ments and details of the games, this system is expected to addconsider-ably addconsider-ably to the enjoyment of the sport from the spectators' standpoint. Bleacher seats also are being installed in-stalled to accomodate the crowds. Details of the league play were announced by the softball association associa-tion this week. Three games will be played each night, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, beginning at 7 p. m., 8 p. m. and 9 p. m. Each team will play 11 games each half. Sponsors of teams are Alpine City, Chipman Feed Store, Peoples State Bank, Chipman Mercantile company, com-pany, Utah Poultry Producers' Cooperative Co-operative association, Griffin Bakery, Bak-ery, A & W Lunch, Greenwood's Service, Boley's Inc., Nye & Nissen, Nielsen Auto company, and Star Flour Mills. n |