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Show Keen Interest In Dual Meet Saturday Ilulchinson-Wrig-lit Duel In Sprints To Be Feature of Individual Contests; Close Score Predicted With Utes Favored. Jenson and Hatch, of the "Y" team are exceptional half-milers also. Vernon Scott, of the Mormons, is hailed before-hand as a likely winner in the hammer throw, witTi Madsen, Shoher and Jones showing up best so far in the discus. Shower also throws the hammer, Scott, throws the shot and Lowell Moore, California addition to the "Y" is a good shot and hammer man. Scott is expected to recover from an ankle infection in time to be in shape for the meet. Anything Is possible in the javelin jave-lin event, as both schools have men who have been tossing It out around 170 feet. Floyd Carn has tossed the spear out farthest of the Cougars, Cou-gars, but lias been pressed jlose by Melvin Griffith. Griffith has a. bettor mark than any of t'he men in the javelin event in previous years but has been unable to work into a consistent form this year. . Along with these two aces are Mor- J ris Snell and Jones on the "Y" ; team. In the javelin event Utah has as their supporting casters. Hack Davies, Toby Welch, Jack Day and several others who will be down to Provn Saturday to get a' hreat'li of fresh air. Millet may take a probable third in t'xie broad jump. Utah has Lorraine Lor-raine Cox, Aldo Richins and Harry Allen as strong contenders in the broad jump and Newell Rushforth, Cox and Frank Fish burn in the high jump. In Lyndon Dudley Coach Ott has a valuable point winner in the middle sprints. In the Invitational meet hist Saturday Dudley tied the record in the 410 and broke the record hold jointly by Owen Rowe find Burnell Lewis in tlte 220-yard low hurdles. LaMar Taylor, the slightly built lad from FJ) Paso, Texas, who has roved the find in the B. Y. camp (his year should have little trouble in winning the mile event a3 he has already negotiated this race this year in 4 minutes 31 4-5 seconds sec-onds for a new inter-class meet with but little competition. If pushed hard by Grey Lusty, hope of the Ute camp, Taylor will likely hang- up a new record. In the two-mile, Theron Snyder, who beat Taylor out in a crosscountry cross-country race last fall will be the best bet of both schools. Taylor, as well as making the best time in the state in the mile this year Lias also made the best time in t lie half-mile half-mile with a time of 2:01. Brad Uta'h university's supremacy in state and conference track circles will receive a real challenge next .Saturday on the B. Y. U. stadium field, when they go up against the best team Coach Ott Romney has pioduced at Brigham Young since the "Y" won conference honors in 11)29, in the first dual meet of the season. Utah is given a slight edge with their more experienced team but backers of tiic Cougar team are even predicting a victoiy for the Mormons, due particularly to the influx of the best crop of freshmen fresh-men cinder men the B. Y. has had tor a many a season. Tn the 100-yard dash the two fiohools have produced a "natural" when Grant Hutchinson, former Carbon al'nlete, now running under the "colors of Brigham Young, runs against Harold Wright, "Utah's Canadian Can-adian import, who has so ably stepped into the shoes of the departed de-parted Nate Long in the sprints. "Fiog" Rasmusscn, Cliff Toone and Ernie Jensen, another freshman who has been showing up well, will aid Hutchinson against suc'h men on the Utah squad as Jackie Bennett, Herman Goldstein, Sam Bennion and Howard Greenwell. E. Y. U. should be powerful in the relay races, with a good flock of sprinters for the SSO and Brad Jenson, Lyndon Dudley, Floyd Hotter Hot-ter and Bob Stratford ready to be called in the longer relay. Utah will come close to a clean sweep in the jumps, athough Recce may surprise in the high jump and |