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Show JTAH STARS TO ENTER ' BIG ATHLETIC MEET AT ! PHILADELPHIA SEPT. 5-8 Raymond, Martin, Johnson, Richards, Larson and J Srown Expected to Represent Beehive State; Indications Are That 2500 of World's Best Track and Field Men Will Compete in Tournament. 11 ' around athletes in the United States, will be in the fray and is expected to show his usual class. He was all-around all-around titleholder at the University of Pennsylvania for three seasons and was national champion on two occasions in the college class. Dresser, the two -mile wizard of Cornell Cor-nell university, is expected to give Ray a battle for his laurels in the two-mile race. Dressier broke the two-mile record rec-ord in eastern competition this season and is expected to be one of the sinning liphts in the title pames. Carl Johnson, stellar track athlete of the University of Michigan and rated as one of America's greatest college stars, seems certain to be one of the his:h point winners. In the intercollegiate title frames this season he won 23 points for the Michigan school single-handed. He is a broad jumper, sprinter and weight man. Charles Pores will be one of the chief contenders in the five-mile run, while "Willie Kyronen of the Millrose A. C. of New York is 07-pcctPd to have things his own v ay in the ten-mile event. It is a question ss to whether the five and ten mile events will be llt't ed this sen son. K has been planned to do p.wny with the longer run?, and if that is the final decision, de-cision, these men will enter the shorter rnrrs. With puch an array of talent In running run-ning and field togs, 'the met this year should be the greatest In the history- of athletics. The winners earn trips to Antwerp, Ant-werp, and, with such a prize as an incentive, incen-tive, the competition is sure to be keen from start to finish. Ted Johnson will run unattached in the mile event. He is now In training here. "Bunk" Brown of the B. Y. U. high school will in all probability enter the mile and half-mile events in the junior championships. Brown has a record of 4:3 in the mile at this altitude and should be able p run the distance in 4:::0 in the east. He is a finished runner. run-ner. With Utah represented more strongly and more numerously than ever before, the stars of the east will have some real com petit ion. Creed Haymond, former University of Utah track captain, captain cap-tain of the University of Pennsylvania track and field team during- the 1919 sea- i son, all -American century and furlong champion in the college class, and rated as the greatest sprinter of the day, Is also expected to enter under Utah colors. Creed is at the top of his career now, and the fans of Utah are eager to see him compete against. Ward, Ijoomis and other national! v knefwn athletes. Haymond is now in L'tah, but has not decided whether he will bo in the moot or not. His presence pres-ence in a unit would no doubt give the int.,rmo,:ii':iin section ten points. In i.io s;Tir.;s tins season, Howard Drew, former national A. A. U. cham-i cham-i pion. ratod R3 one of the world's greatest great-est s:iri ihc-s and holder of the world's : lvcord in th century, will clash with i s-.i h na 1 ionaily Known men as Andy I Ward, Joe Loomis, llias. Creo 1 Hay-! Hay-! inonr, national 100 and 220 yard intercollegiate inter-collegiate champion for the IftlS and iPlfi seasons; Wood ring, Westover, Dwycr and i scores of others. I In the 4-50-yard, some of the greatest j runners of the age will toe the mark. I Ted Meredith, former national champion; j Frank fboa, Ted Campbell and numerous ' others will no doubt furnish one of the ' t st quarter-mile even's in the h :s- I i tow of tho tran-.e. The reeord of 47 sc- 1 'Mids wi'! ho in danger, and on a fast. ! tr'irk it 5 on; e-tr-d th.r.t th old mark 1 wi'! ' c cln yjKvl with the has-heers. I toie K iv, r-out.-'d to he the crea st : n;vl twn-mtVr America ha ever j -.. r;npr.!, w:'.' rn.".nor to smash the ! vi-ii ;n ark of 412: in t: e co:ni;:c X'-rtv.a:i T:ilor set th.a rt-'rd ! in .Lily. 3, n rid L.-iy is out a 'tor Ta-! Ta-! Ivor's mark The midget Ray wi'.! have ! to show a wor'd of speed in order to brenk the present record, but distance runner.-? of the country expect to se him cover the mile in 4:L Howard Berry, one of the best a!l- : B ALBERT F. WARDEN. I iiinUCA'S greatest track and field f athletes will compete at ridladel- Phla in the annual A. A. l tm- tlotial championships, September ilonJ' m 7 anfl s from present !n-lre !n-lre I,,; the Sanies this season will see t4 ?,tc? ln m'e iv.eot in the United Or.Vs urn 1S exP' that several rlf vWn- The recent overwlieim- JtflmoM 0l ,bn Amerionn tonm in the '!n"ic-ini p,UiU's at Paris places the I-1-"; a. i fi1-,1''0 t0P f the ladder in II -i-vV,. , ,! Ani,?H-; in tho.;e cp.v.cs hl(' 'f.,. , 1 '-'v ,,p1' t m 1 frames V roi on' t.adr to-s f-., ibl't'V . n!o t!u' M-i'ini men id S'W for victory. The wln- w i't l?mor!cA 'M th Olympic 1 hnnnr "WOrp- Barium, next veur, -"sinthn rd;irt,sontinp tne United twtantJ , n Fa,ies wiU ""fcly spur the Uion.i n 10 thcir best. M vie fn,' u- chRmptonshin class jj for honors. It is expected that at least 2.00 athletes, picked from various vari-ous sections of the United Slates, -will '"e in 'he tourney. T'tah is expeeter to roll up a num'eer of points. If present plans mature, Utah will ha vo five' stars in the meet. Alma Kieiiurds. all-round titleholder of America in l!'U., former B. Y. U. and Cornell star, and internationally known in the aerial and weight events, will probably be seen in action. Richards was high-point man in the allied games at Paris. Clinton Larson, teammate of Richards and accounted the greatest hledi .lumper of th are, is expected to win at t'.-;:i l I event. 1 .arson was tho r.atioual cha -n -j Phm in ;:mT. but. lost h'.s t;;io in lb 1 I arsori is now in t r ir.drrr fo" t he ;re ; . I lie w:h represent the L. V. U- ih'bei't S. 1 "H.-d-."'l Ihrtin. forn-er "'.ar n-ih-r and two-iui'er n tk.e Lie N:r. cortferetico aivi west rr:i ie:i- iis'.a m -e c'e.amnion, will enter t'ne ir.ile mm Martin Mar-tin holds victories over Joie Kay and other eastern stars and is expected to show a world of class in, the comini; meet. He will represent the Salt Lake Fiks. He reeently won the Colorado modiii-d marathon in record time, and with ease. |