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Show OBSERVATIONS By JAN Spring to a great part of the American youth means baseball. Up until last season the boys of Bingham had had no adequate opportunity op-portunity to play and enjoy the national sport which conditions was of course due to the fact that the hillsides of this camp offered of-fered no natural sites for baseball base-ball diamonds. However, last year thru the efforts ef-forts of the, Kiwania. club and the American Legion cooperating with the Uvah Copper Company, the boys of this district were organized or-ganized into a six team, league, representing Lark, Copperton, . Frogtown, Bingham, Copperfield and Highland Boy. This league was organized and operated under un-der the national rules of the American Legion and the winning win-ning team, which last year was the Bingham agregatiou, was eligible to compete in the district and state tournaments, Bingham Bing-ham was eliminated by losing to Magna in the district contest. Now' the boys are getting ready to go into action for the 1930 championship. They are a year older and have this experience in back of them and we expect that they will give a very creditable account of themselves. To play baseball is a natural heritage of the American boy where is tlie man who did not play ball at some time or other in his youth. It is a great sport one that any boy must enjoy and a great character builder. Every man who reads this will recall choosing up sides on the local sand1 lot some of us had gloves 01110 had none usually the game was played with a homemade ball remember how we used to wind stiring and yarn over a good sized cork and how we cut and sewed a cover from the tops of an old pair of shoes sometimes by hook or crook, usually crook, one of .' the"1"" kids Would get hold of a regular ball how jealously we guarded it and how carefully it was preserved pre-served great times. Now our boys are certainly entitled en-titled to enjoy this great sport and we honor the oranizations who have taken this in hand. Let us show our appreciation by turning out. for the games they will be good surprisingly good and you will enjoy it just as much as the boys enjoy playing. play-ing. In general connection with this subject the Kiwanis Club and the Legion are trying k get the !Board of Education to employ a director for children's activities during the summer months. We should have two, a woman for the girls and a man for tho boys. This would be a fine thing for the children and a relief for many mothers to know that they are being be-ing taken care of. Therefore it behooves all public spirited organizations or-ganizations and individuals to endorse en-dorse this and urge the Board to take definite action on this in the very near future as vacation days are soon here. |