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Show nt To Be Divided For Djpns Of Softball League the summer softball "V were launched here lght, when sponsors' rcp-and rcp-and officials of the ork Softball association iay night in the city hall. &,?npetition, starring twelve teams, is in prospect ,ujiture of the summer's as a result of action e group Thursday night. K r to distribute "talent" in equitable manner, the r" up a list of more ex- t, livers who will be divid-jiJhe divid-jiJhe twelve teams. v-j?'P decided upon having 5 of twelve teams, instead - ues of six as last year. of the "talent" started """"tellers. The group selec-highly selec-highly rated pitchers. ' e eleven American Fork s be allowed only one of top-rating players were :d. Each sponsor will be , i five of this group, with tfl' fl"ee to make his choice i he will play for. ill be allowed to select its (7)1 from among its own jfhod of allocating the ers to the various teams was decided upon as the best means of assuring fair conduct of the league. Previous to the meeting, there had been talk that some sponsors spon-sors were "proselyting" for the best players, and that others were unable to obtain the more experienced players. play-ers. The equal division of the "talent" "tal-ent" is expected to eliminate any difficulty in the organization of the teams, and to assure an equally-matched equally-matched set of teams. The softball competition will be supervised by the American Fork Softball association, which recently reelected O. DeVere Wootton as president. Other officers are 'Lige Chipman and A. F. Christensen, vice president and secretary, respectively; respective-ly; and Lloyd Tregaskis, Leon Par-duhn, Par-duhn, Reed Burgess, Harvel Bennett and LeRoy R. Griffin, directors. The sponsors will be the same as last year, with the exception of the addition of Boley's, Incorporated and Peoples State Bank in place of Shumway's Sinclair service and Texaco service. Other sponsors are Utah Poultry Producers' association, A & W Lunch, Griffin Bakery, Chip-man's Chip-man's Feed Store, Chipman Mercantile Mercan-tile Co., Star Flour Mills, Nye & Nis-sen, Nis-sen, Alpine, Greenwood's service, and Nielsen Auto Co. |