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Show Baseball at Evergreen Draws Dads and Moms Into Action of parents are active with their boys in a wholesome recreation activity. With so many fathers participating the result is that there are many loyal rooters and boosters, moms. and dads, who are always out to the , games with their boys encouraging en-couraging them in their play. The program is organized and sponsored by the Salt Lake County Recreation Dept., and 'threrefore received professional help and leadership. Paul Rose by Reed Walker Approximately thirty two fathers and actively participating participat-ing with their boys in a Salt Lake County Recreation Dept. Boy's Baseball League at Ever green. They are coaching and managing man-aging two eight-team leagues which include boys from ten to fourteen years old. A noteworthy feature of the league is that a large number Clough and Keith Price; White Sox, George Webb and Ted Hockett; Tigers, Bob Gibson and Roland Clayton; Indians,. Ralph Ballard and David Mid-dough; Mid-dough; Orioles, Ash Workman-and Workman-and K. B. Farnsworth; Yanks,. Ken Allred and Bill Hyde;. Senators, Ben Hope. John Chatelain is chairman' of the Minor League for the ten to twelve year old boys-His boys-His staff includes: Cubs, John: Chatelain and Harold Cahoon; Dodgers, Earl Hansen and Ralph Barney; Phillies, Bill Green; Giants, Al Stuart; Red Legs, Authur Jackson; Cardinals, Charles Barrett and JElvarf Hunter; Braves, Elmo Colton; Pirates, Ed Hamlin and Duane Fuller. The Evergreen League is especially appreciative of a fine young man who voluntarily serves as Reed Walker's assistant. assist-ant. He is Richard Jones, 15, son of Harold F. Jones, 3825 So. 1860 East. Richard is doing an excellent job of keeping records, preparing the fields; and helping whenever he sees: the opportunity. Last and cer-. tainly very important is our secretary and treasurer, Elvam Hunter, who has the responsibility responsi-bility of taking care of all official records and finances. Hats off to El van for the exceptionally fine service he is doing these boys. is the superintendent of the Recreation Dept., Mickee Mick-elson Mick-elson is the director for the Granite School District Area, and Reed Walker is the recreation rec-reation leader directly in charge of the leagues. A basic precept of the program pro-gram has been that if a boy wants to play baseball, he should have the opportunity. Accordingly, enough teams have been organized each year so that every boy who turned out was placed on a team. A boy, because he isn't a good player, isn't turned away or eliminated. Yet the caliber of play and the fine competion are very much in evidence. We are especially proud of the fact that the League is financially independent. The parents felt that if they and their boys wanted a baseball program, they should support it; therefore each contributes a membership fee which has provided enough "money to take care of the necessary expenses such as uniforms, umpires and po on. The teams are not supported nor sponsored by commercial interests and the boys are not handed everything for nothing in returnyet at the same time the precaution is taken that no boy is excluded because of financial difficulty. The general chairman of the league is H. M. Day, who has contributed a great deal of time and effort towards making the program a success. The Major League for the thirteen and fourteen year olds, is chair-maned chair-maned by Ralph Ballard who has done an outstanding job. His league staff is as follows: Athletics, Frank Ballard and Buzz Bair; Red Sox, Richard GTv ww " 'jy 4-ttwr' waniw " ' ? . - I Pn;t . p - , '',', .'-. i - -Si.aK' . .. V - .; .. - i. : t V i HEAVY HITTER One of the leaders in batting for the Senators is Jim Tope, 2076 Vimont Ave., Here shown taking a lusty swing at the ball. .Behind the plate is Dave Child, 2255 E. 39th South. TJIIRTY STRIIKEOUTS . Rick Sheffield, Oriole pitcher, 3814 So.,1950 E., struck out 17 batters In hir first game against the Tigers, then foUow-ed foUow-ed with a no-hitter with IS strikeouts in his second game, yet he lost this battle by a 2 to 1 score. ' .. ' ' ; ' - - i 'V-; iiy"f'i j . ,. JJ. - If I! fr-.si.:.r..;.s:.' ' , -..; TOP PITCHER Wally Douglas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Griff Douglas Dou-glas and brother to Merrill Douglas of U of U football, was first string pitcher for the Evergreen Junior High School team as an eighth grader this spring. .He won six and lost one for his school and isv now a member of the Senator team, and uses big league form in pitching windup and delivery. w t - 7- . n. - " s ' t v C ; I J; - ; A vv -"X . ' . , 1 a .CK A . v :: Ffet!- , .-v.; ' SAFE AT HOME John Whitaker, Yankee first baseman, slides safe into home plate while Dave Child waits for the ball that came too late. |