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Show rr" Tracksters Sparkle at Provo Relays, Dashes Captured By Victorious Long-Men Seven Other Events Won By Cubs Once again, the Salt Lake City high schools gained recognition in the sporting world by winning high honors in the thirty-second Provo Invitational Track and Field Meet1 held at the BYU stadium last Friday Fri-day and Saturday. This year, Nate Long's speedy cindermen walked off with more honors than did last year. The Cubs once again are favored to retain re-tain the city title this year. The meet last week showed the wealth of power behind the blue and white squad as it carried off top honors. Cubs Place in Eleven Events Participating in the 16 events the Cubs romped off with four firsts and placed in seven others. The 100-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 880-yard relay, and the medley med-ley relay were captured by the Cubs. Stan Kilbourne streaked to victory in the century sprint with team mate Jack Lowder fast on his heels. The time was 10.6. Lowder came back to cop the 220 dash. Jack's time was 23.3. Palmer romped in second. The 880 relay, composed of Lowder, Kilbourne, Palmer and Dave McLelland, was won by the Cubs. The Southerners went on to capture the medley relay. re-lay. Ray Adamson, Joe Lewis, Grant Kelly, Ralph Jackson, circled cir-cled the cinder path in 39:56.5. The time for tre 880 relay was 1 :37.5. Placing in the other events were : Cale Cotton, 120-yard high hurdles, hur-dles, third. Cale Cotton, 200-yard low hurdles, sixth. Grant Kelly, 440-yard run, second. Virgil Van Cott, 880-yard, fourth. Ralph Jackson and Joe Lewis on the high jump, tide for fourth. Lawrence Palmer, pole vault, third. Ray Adamson, discus, fourth. Ecider Wins Championship Ralph Hall of the Ecide squad, captured the all-round championship champion-ship for the second consecutive year. Not only did his feat bring honor to the city schools, but greater honors were brought to East for it was the fifth time in seven years that a Leopard track-ster track-ster has won the all-round gonfalon. gonfa-lon. Ralph rolled up a total of 5525 points, 496 more than his last year's total of 5029. Mac Speedie, South's greatest all around cinder-man, cinder-man, holds the record for the highest high-est number of points, 5640 in 1938, 115 points more than Hall's. |