Show e Driving Only a Trial ANK K In the wake of at what hat was perhaps the most successful running or of the thc City Creek marathon the state high school association has been asked to tc abolish the eventS event which has flourished for tor more than two decades According to its accusers the marathon Is too strenuous for high school boys bos It comes too early in the season to permit proper condl- condl say the accusers accuser who add that there theres no interest In the race rac anyway Condemned by a mock trial tile the mile race awaits certain execution tion if an attorney cant can't be found to plead a new trial before the high higi I tribunal Recommendation of the death penalty Is surprising in iii I view of this years ears gratifying race A committee had been appointed to InvestIgate the wisdom wis- wis dom of holding the race after Coach Earl Ferguson coach I at Brigham Cit City raised a question about its continuation The committee was to stud study conditions under which thc thi marathon Is run and to determine how well the boys withstood withstood with with- stood the test When the race was run In new record time without a single runner showing distress or undue strain of au any kind I felt like man many others that the thc committee wo would ld have a favorable report to make Imagine my surprise to have hac Ferguson tell me mc this week that thai the committee was recommending abolishment of oC the i run But wait You aint heard hill yet et The corn com mi didn't wait to 0 sec the thc race it ii made its A pointed Appointed a week prior to 10 the stale bas tournament ic I groll met during the hc casaba casab I ct and without further trial or to 10 ask the thc immediate execution OIt of the tt Judge May lay Be Induced To Grant a New Trial Sentence will be passed p by bj either the board or of control or the entire entire en- en tire association in its It n next meeting I am eager to know what sentiment senu- senu ment the judge will have when the prisoner comes before him It If I were Judge I be skeptical or of a recommendation like this one A A decision that Is reached without investigation certainly seems 1 like a biased bIed opInIon And if it please his honor Id I'd like the court to know that not all the committee attended the marathon when It WM was held One of the members told me he didn't see sec the rae race this year Why should he Hadn't the recommendation already been made 4 I No matter bow these men may have bave already been toward oward the race I think the least they could have done IT Er to their task was to attend the race rau themselves If they m meant nt to do their work well th they should haTe hae had bad medical examination made of the athletes after the race to compare with the qualification examinations held before belore They should have talked with the boy and studied hand first how bow the athletes fared durin during the run Then they'd have something concrete on whIch to base their decision Some coaches have felt that the downgrade finish while not steep forces Otc a distressing speed upon the runner Some attempt has been made u ind a substitute course C Co th ch Ferguson Ferguso advises me that the committee will propose t of a a series of to be held at the University of Utah stadium next season I wonder If it wouldn't be possible U to hold the relays relas aU rIght and still preserve the spring marathon by running It over a new new would finish in the stadium At any rate I sincerely hope the state association as a whole deliberates dellb- dellb crates more thoroughly and fairly than Ferguson and his committee have done before they either execute or preserve the run |