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Show Scribe SPORT TRAITS , By liifi Miller Since baseball is America's fa-...vorite fa-...vorite sport, it seems likely that all high schools possible, would recognize it as such. But as it is today, baseball is played less than any other sport. If a small school like Bingham can field a baseball team, then surely the larger schools such as Granite, Davis and Jordan can. After a hard struggle the diamond dia-mond sport was accepted into the old "Big Three." tAs soon as baseball base-ball had established estab-lished a foothold in the city high ischools, the "Big isix" was formed, namely, South, East, West, Gran-lite, Gran-lite, Davis and jjordan. That was jvery good," and jwhat everybody had always wanted. want-ed. Not forgetting forget-ting that also wnen me Jtsig Cliff Miller Six" was formed, it was agreed that sports of all kinds would be recognized, and competition would therefore result. re-sult. So they forgot baseball! Of all the sports in the United States it seems that they would include the most American of all American Ameri-can sports. Thank goodness the city schools and Bingham at least kept it alive. Of course the other schools had their difficulties or baseball might prevail now, but if it is put off and put off there might never be a seven school league including Bingham, Surely material enough can be found to operate a ball club in each school. They are big enough! No doubt student interest would rise to such a degree that it might shadow the turnouts at the basketball bas-ketball and football games. All that is needed is to give baseball a chance and real competition will result. When, next season rolls around, it is the hope of many, that more high schools recognize baseball as an official spring sport. With enough encouragement the turnout and interest of the fans might soar twice as high as ever ' before. So let us all get behind baseball and push it to the front, as one of the foremost of all high school sports. It can, should, and will be done! |