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Show TODAY'S EK IT THOUGHTIMPOfiTM Championship of Easl and West Will Not Be Seiiled by Results. CIliCAGO, Nov. S. Although no panics tiro scliodnlcd for tomorrow which are likely to cause any change in tho eastern and -western chainpion-ship chainpion-ship races, several of interest are to bo plaj'cd. In the west the University of Chicago Chi-cago and Northwestern university teams, old rivals, but both of whom are out of the championship runninjr, will meet on Marshall field. Many 0 tho Chicago players arc crippled and a team composed largely of substitutes will ace the Evauston squad. On account of this condition, a large score is not expected. Wisconsin meets Arkansas, but t ho Southwestern cloven is not i-rcpccted to defeat tho speedy .Madison Mi'.id. Illinois players took their final practice prac-tice todny and accompanied by J000 supporters, will lcavo tomorrow for Lji-fayctte, Lji-fayctte, where thoy meet Purdue. Scn-noK Scn-noK probably -will "bo at right half in plai of Dillon, the veteran. It has been 5 even years since Purdue defeated Illinois, but this year tho Illinois squad is on the short end of the odds. For the first time in several years Indiana and Iowa will clash tomorrow at Indianapolis. Both teams predict vie! 01 v for lhemsolvcs. Tnc biggest game of the day in the o"Jst vvill be between Pennsylvania and Michigan. Both teams arc lighter this year Hum they have boon in the past and a fast, Miappv gamu is expected. Yal" will play "Brown at New Haven. Ha-ven. The Yale "squad has had a long rest, its gnino last week beiug cancelled can-celled on account of the death of York, but some think this may prove a detriment det-riment rather than a benefit to tho team. WESTGHRD'S Ml! . WILL IWE TODflY Good Roads Boosters on the Last Lap of Grand Junc-tion-Zion Trip. Along about, noon hour today, some fifteen or twenty automobllen, carrying some thirty or forty cnlhusliiHtio good road boosters, all bespattered with mud, should arrive In Salt Lako. The cavalcade caval-cade will be tho A. I. Westgard party of ralhflnders. Upon their arrival in Salt Lake It will bo the end of ono of the most determined fights against odds to cover stubborn country ever attempted in the annals of automohiilng. It will be the first part.- of automobillsts to drive from Crand Junction to Salt Lako, and under oondltions that would discourage the avers) av-ers) ee driver of a motor car. The trip was made to establish tho Grand Juno! Ion-Sail Lake link of a transcontinental trans-continental automobilo .highway and was made possible by tho.J determination of Iho people of Crand Junction to secure a popltion on that hlghv.-ny. The full do-tails do-tails of the trip will ho told later, but enough ha.s come in from time to time over the telegraph wire to givn some Inkling of the hardships endured and overcome to get here. Will Have Escort. A partv of Salt. Lake aulomobillsts, headed bv tho oflccr.'j of the Automobilo Club of Utah, will leave the automobile olub's headquarters at 251 Stale street at 10 o'clock this morning to meet tbe Wost-gard Wost-gard party and escort them into the. city. This action was taken by the dlreoiors of tho club at a meeting held yeste.ro"ay and an open invitation has boon lssnJ to everyone so desiring to take part In the (Continued on Following P?.gc.) WESTGftRO'S PUfiTT I WILL ARRIVE TDDftY I (Continued, from Preceding Page.) M welcoming trip. The Westgard txtrtv i- fl echeduled to leave Provo at 0 o'clock this fl morning and the meeting should uke place nar the point of tho mountain. flM Mr, Wcstgarrf waa called up or th long distance telephone last night Ju.t before going to tho banquet served In ht Wm honor at Provo. He cnld the trip from B Grand Junction to Provt) was onn of t:e H hardest he ever experienced, but that h WM had gained valuable Information on road kw building. 2Ir. Westgnrd said he had met M with nothing but enthusiarm all alonr th" mi routo and the help he received made it Wm posnlblc for him to get through. On Fourth Route. I Sir. Tyestgard is now Hearing the end H 01 his four-time trip acroia tho country m laying out four route.- for the American Automobile afoc!atior. The first of 1 these routes waa the Sunset route from H New York to Los Angelos along the Santa - railroad. The next, was the Northern MM route from Seattle to New York through Montana and the Dakotas. The third ws WM the Overland trail from San Francisco to WM Now York, via Reno. Ely. Salt Lak. MM Cheyenne, Omaha and Chicago. Now h MM is completing the Midland trail from New MM ork to Loa Angeles, via Kansas Cltv. MM Denver. Salt Lake, Ely. Tonopah and Los MM Angelcv MM Mr. West sard has now been In his car IH . s,everal months without a reU lit MM will have covered more- than 20,000 mil ''MM of roads of all descriptions, but when hi MM work Is dono Jt will funilnh mot valuable MM data for tho touring public. A reception Ij planned for Mr. Vcl- MM gard at tho Commercial club upon hin MM arrival here. MM |