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Show any TRACK ATHLETES WILL GO AFTER TITLE Sprinters and Baseball Tosa-ers Tosa-ers Will Soon Take Place of Basketeers in College Col-lege Sports. utah and aggies have: had ill luck Ineligibility of Star Hoop-sters Hoop-sters and Injuries Have Combined to Make Hard Sledding. The eollehito basketball season i drawing to an end, and with tho eomitif of spring weather, Coach Kelson H. Norgren of tho 1'nive.rsity of Utah is turning his attention to track and bnso-ball. bnso-ball. Tho basketball season thus far this year has been rather a hard ouo for tho universitv team, which started out brightlv, but ovmig to the injury of Captain Elilon Beal, tho ineligibility of 'Tanker and the inability of Earl Skidmoro, veteran pi:ird, to play this season, the ehauees of Coaeh Norj;reu 's boys to laud tho championship have, been considerably diminished. Tho four colloiriaLo teams of the state appear about ovenlv matched in basketball basket-ball abilitv at this" time. The Brigham Youue university and Brihani oung college teams are playing: great ball, and Coach Norgren s team is traveling at a better gait uow. The Utah Agricultural Agricul-tural college team, owing to defeats at tha hands of Utah, the B. Y. C. and tho B. Y. U seems to bo pretty well out of the race. The other three teams, though, aro nip and tuck, with a slight advantage resting with the University of Utah bo vs. Utah stands a good ' chance to lose both to tha A. O. and B. Y. C. teams on the Logan trip next Friday and Saturday, but with the B. Y. U. game, which will probably decide de-cide tho championship scheduled for Salt Lake the following week, the dope weighs considerably in favor of tna university. Hard Luck Teams. The" champion haTri" luck teams of Utah this eoason havo beu the Utah Aggies and the Utah university teams. The Aggies lost three of their best plav-ers plav-ers earlv in the season. Utah duplicated dupli-cated a. little later on. The ruling out of Peterson for rough work in the recent re-cent B. Y. C.-Aggie encouuter, followed by tha declared ineligibility of Maugban and the injury to orensou, center, left tho northerners considerably weakened. Tha pendulum then swung far in favor of the university. But that institution, following tho announcement that Skid . more would not play this KCasou, lost, Packer through a conference ruling, and is now nursing its captain, Lldon Beal. Beal is scarcelv able to use his right hand as a result of injuries received re-ceived in the Illinois A. C.-Utah game, but it is thought the hand will bo entirely en-tirely vi ell by the end of the week. Tho B. Y. U. and the B. Y. C. teams havo plaved unusually good ball this year, considering the material available when thev started. The college, team, alwavs fast, started out with a win ovor the Aggies and a clofe defeat at tho hands of Utah. Big Series Doubtful. The proposed series belwcoa the champion conference team of Utah and of Colorado is doubtful. If the Universitv Univer-sitv of Utah wins, the Centennial state victors will probably bo brought to Zion. In the deciding gamo of the Iiockv Mountain coin" e.rence whether Utah'wins or the (71 ah Aggies tho title of Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and possibly tho northwestern states, will go in the shuffle. As a result, re-sult, tho local boys are planning a hard fight for the championship, as moro depends de-pends on it this vear than at any time in the history of Utah. The scheduled game between tho local university and the Buckeye Paint team of Toledo, Ohio, which claims the Ohio ta.te .'luinipiorishh), has been called off. The Toledo hunch was delayed several weeks iu the trip uud ashed for a later date with '('tali. Owing to spring baseball base-ball and track work, the university management, turned the offer down. The game was to have ben played here next week. ... , A feature of the season thin fur lias been the great local interest iu basketball. basket-ball. University games have drawn larger crowds than for a long lime nast. Another feature has been the squabble between the local univorsit v and the Utah Agricultural college. No new phase has been added to the sub-ieet, sub-ieet, eM'opt that the ygffi"s' surge--t ion to the effort that the former Hah league, minus the Cuiversitv of t'tah. be restored, has met with did'ent. At present, however, the dispute Ikik. languished upparrntlv. The two rchools are. getting on a. little better trnis; and !f now apiirars that the two state inMi- . hit inn" will eonfinur in h b t.'t : as jn the pns ACCIF.S GIVE THEIR SIDE OF PACKER CASE Cp'e'nl to Ttio Triliuno. I, HOAX. T'1'. 10. Not thai the Clvl V-s'Vtr r:--r- i;ih Ii'-jj riniiMv 0 iro-M r,f -,v lilt- H'n'-ilM-.t 0r 11.? K'x-kr Mown-u Mown-u : n r-r.r. ! r'-ui''. t ! if A'r.Uf t :vi 1 li ir T1 - !'..' 'in t"-i- -or m-'. v kri'-TMi. :-n l1' M.r-v may n"t r- jiivJit Mi" iinjn:-t Inv r,'it :;1lon ti :if Cl'-V V..T'. 'A r 1 1 1 :i I ' rl b - un- f i i - '! i r i i '' " In 1 r i r i ; t n t It- r; i e 1 o an l-,:i;e. M:;t:v p'-ri-'iup and Hinfi 1t'V.;;m--.t-i ,jf " ' y'' hitvt. pri'rW-rj :irl:r.K ;i 1. 'iff'-r'-Til ':rci' In vi,i--ii :- i.-(1(tti- ni ' ha-o he. ,-n li'iH'j'- t Ii t f 'I T'MC'lf UJJH -;qua il(t'"1 f,l t'T- 1" l.U lint hf A. vi; - fi'ii;:piv' trvii't' f" nJ .f :i c"".i r.-,r'tt ::wi t..s n'ft l n I J in i HE 1 o tl T'f I - r.t ni; We:- t. f-linirnn of I'm .-::;'( rn-iU'-W ff t.i." eillff, 1 IViTV (Coiitinr"?fJ on Followint;' P;igi.) VARSITY TRACK WW BEGIN SPRING WORK (Continued from Preceding Tage) desirous that all th facts in the Packer cabe shall be known, bing content to abide by the opinion of the public when it shall have read r.hem. The Ageles have never shown a disposition to be nar-ro"v nar-ro"v or unfair in such matters, he declares. When MauglTan. their own athlete, was charged with havtn? run a footrace last summer for S3, and his amnt-eur ftandins quen'Jorted bt-caue of this. Dr. West immediately im-mediately summoned Mausrhan and the stuient frankly adaiitted rhe truth of the charge. He was Immediately eliminated from coUese athletics, in pi' 01 the fact that his services wei e needed m college competlUorie. Not a tenth of thr5 interested in athletics ath-letics know that Clyde- Packer coached at the. Preston aacif-my for two ears, says Dr. West. He did so. and so the A,'ffies asktd If eoaohts were not pro-f pro-f esilonals under th con fere n'-e rule?. There was no difference of opinion as to that, but Parker averted that hi was not paid for coaching that he drf-w hie ciliary cili-ary for teaching and coached for i:oth;ng. He made out a very strong case, and Dr. Weft was askefl to yather what informi-tlon informi-tlon he could on the other sMe of the controversy. con-troversy. He did go. and prefenied Ins findings to the conference at the January meeting. Packer wa. adjudced iuf-llgible." Later, through a misunderstanding, f)r. West asserts, ho was roinstatf-d. The ca.e wap not dropped, however, for tt coin-mitteo coin-mitteo of the conference was named to go j over all the testimony an! make recommendations recom-mendations an to the final action to be ! taken. The Agg!fs were not informed who j the members of this cuinmlttee were, but no Aggie wei 8 upon It. It imported undr date of February 13, recommending that the first action of the conference 'in declaring- Packer Ineligible be mainin Inrd. Dr. West Fayn he had no des)n to Ho Packer an Injustice, for ho If'arnecl that the university pla or wji s a very lair athleto and a splendid young1 man. o he asked the B. V. college of this city and the B. Y. university of Provo to pjss thHr opinions on t'(:e evhU-nce ho had gatliered. He Riihmltted all his papers to the athletic ccuinrila of tluse schools, being be-ing alfo vn careful tt) snd in all of , packer's affidavits and papers containing his side of t he cns-. Tho two i.-onnclis considered tliy o;neriflnn mid then voted! to declare Packer ineligible. At the P. Y. C. thnro was the greatest reluctance to i do this, an Packer was an old prudent of the school and a prime favorite there. |