Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-29 | Page 21 | 'U' Cross Country Carded for Friday

wcon 11 CARDED Fl FFIILIAY 1 Event Is of Much Interest to ! 'H I 'H Students; Is Excellent "Conditioner." I The first blp; event on the spring ath- 1 ' 'H telle calendar ai the University oi Utah j will bo held next Friday afternoon, when J about twenty mnners will fight lt out j over the Ionr cross-country course for tho 1 'H honor of wearing tlie "IT- which Is 'l granted to tho winners of first and see- f ond places In this event. The annual A crosy-couiitry run lias come to be looked 1 upon as onu of the moat Important of 5 spring activities at the U. of L. and ranks J IH with the track and field meets In "point of luturest to thu students. Tnch year the cross country attracts 1 'H many students to the hillside us uoou I ; ilH ns the weather opens i:p. and does proh- 1 H ably more- than any other early-season l t'Vent to shov the coach what new i Rtrcnsth he has amontr his candidates for j1 track honors. The meet attractn many u students who would otherwise probably never appear in a track suit. It requires if H condition abovu anylhiug else. Often h i!IH man who has had !o:ik experience an u ivii runner cannot win from a strong Rteen u'H man over so lour: a route. Evidence of I . '1 this was furnished last year when Clydu Woollcy, a green freshman, outstripped :t iHH field of varsity runners and took flrfit I place ln the event. Woolley had never j ' been taught to run. but he was ln (rrcat Jl' H condition. Ills vlctorj- Inspired several UvH other men to try the stunt this year, and 3H for the last month there have been almost ?l ;(H fifty men working to condition them- V! ,H selves. The Kood weather gave them op- MrJH portunlly to get on the track and to do Ulii their best. H'H The two men . who look the best at (l JH present for the cross country are Cutler f'' and Teajjilel. I-ist year Cutler went Into IJ the race and nut up a great fight. I-le I, lost one of his, smock in tho first 100 ti yards and went over the rest of the course- , barefoot. The slicks and rocks cut his U foot, but he stayed with the game and 1J( H finished well toward the front. Trlii Tcusdcl is a long, lean fellow with an jf, H easy stride arid takes the ridges .and f i!H ditches with more ease than anyone else y'. In the practice runs which have been ' JH held every afternoon during tho good tf weather. t'iJi Most of tlio men who arc still out have- v IIH been over the entlro course several times, i 'H so that lt is likely that there will bo at i ! least half a dozen who will fight all the ; 'H i way to the tape. Tho course begins at i the university gymnasium and leads to JH the bottom of thu hill at the base of the ?'i big "U." At that point the captain !yH of the track team checks the runners' " H numes off ns they round him and start ,, buck. The return courac follows tho ' same route back to the gymnasium, anil Ji then once around the (luartcr-mllo cln- !H dcr track on Cummlngs field. J1- H The men who are showing the most ;' promise, any one of whom might bo ex- Jjc jH pected to got good places, are Cutler, T' IH Tcasdel, McArthur. Nelson, Flagel. Love, lH Nyman. Burrows, Verbryck and Maw. H