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Show HigEfl School, EBYBJ hmmvs kmmm U9?3 retay tern Four of the most talented prep relay runners in the history of the Springville High School will be honored today at an assembly at 2 : 45 in the school's : 1. f ' ' , " ' 1 " s . a v' : 1 - n - w - 4 I s H - - ' i -i . f , 1 j . ' V x " J - 1 ! i f 4 t -i - ' ' i ' - 1 " " t ' A I s 1913 RELAY QUARTET, who set the state's top 880 record, and who will be honored today at an assembly at the high school, include Harold Hartman, Creed Haymond, Arthur Wiscombe and Fred Weight. Coach Homer Christensen (right) is deceased. auditorium. These four speedsters speed-sters include Harold Hartman, Creed Haymond, Arthur Wiscombe Wis-combe and Fred Weight, all members of the 1913 relay team which ran the 880 in the record time of 1:32 at the BYU Invitational Track Meet that year. These fellows, who will be honored also at the BYU Invitational In-vitational Meet Saaturday, on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary An-niversary of the event, will be introduced today on the high school assembly in their honor. hon-or. Any of their former school mates, friends and relatives may meet the honored guests at the high school during and immediately following this assembly. as-sembly. Top record BYU will formally recognize and present gold medals to the 1913 team during the Invitational Invita-tional Meet Saturday afternoon. after-noon. The record this team made stood for many years and would probably be the best mark today had the ,-runners used the present day track and field starting blocks and the perfected baton. Instead, In-stead, in their winning race, the runners merely took their stance, began their race on the go signal, passed a hand carved stick for a baton and raced down a designated oval track, less conditioned by far, than tracks of the present record rec-ord runners. The new record is 1:30.3 set by Las Vegas High School in 1957. About the runners Following graduation from SHS, the foursome broke up and went their various ways. Only one member remains in Springville, Fred Weight. He followed farming and dairying and previous to retirement, he worked as city sexton. He completed com-pleted his stint in the army during World War I, married, lived in Idaho a short while prior to making his home in Springville. His racing record was handed down through his family line when his daughter, Lenore, set up an" outstanding BYU Invitational meet record in the dashes during her high school days at Springville. Arthur Wiscombe moved to Uintah Basin where he was deputy sheriff and land appraiser. apprai-ser. Later he returned to Provo, Pro-vo, where he and his wife ran a boarding house for 27 boys. Creed Haymond enrolled at the U of U and later brought national honors in track while attending Universit yo Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. Creed became one of the fastest dash men in the United States, beating the fomous Charlie Paddock in 17 out of 21 races before tearing a leg ligament that later terminated ter-minated his track running. He became a practicing dentist in Salt Lake; served also as president of the Northern States LDS Mission. Harold Hartman moved from Springville a year or two following graduation and is presently living in Lewiston, Idaho, where he is chief electrician. elec-trician. He is the smallest of the four sprinters, weighing only 112 pounds. His wife is a school teacher. Their coach, Homer Christensen, is the only deceased member of the group. More than six million GI loans have been made, the Veterans Administration says. |