Show Farmer Lad Becomes Becom s Champ Champo Champi Runner S o 0 4 Raymond Haymond Ex- Ex Ex World i Track I King ICing o O Late Homer I Christensen's Christensen s Pi Every afternoon during the tho three thre spring months of or 1910 a young yount man mar who soared well over oer the the six foot marl mai-k was seen cen riding a bicycle from Provo Pro to This youns oun giant was tho the late lato Homer ChrIstensen ChrIs ChrIs- ensen then a senior in the tho Brimm Bri Brig Bri- ham hani mm Young Youn university uni Homers Homer's deSire desire de lle- sire to help youn youngsters le led him to tc this dail daily bicycle task When he arrived in SHing ille each afternoon ho would find ambitious ambitious am- am youngsters roun running aroun around he tho school building nut and also from froni ono one apple appo tree to a pine tree 10 ards apart Christensen was these o. o youngsters young coach chief advisor an and i traIner From rom all of or these healthy healthy- looking farmer lads ono one tiny but aggressive e youngster b by the name of Creed Haymond who tipped the thc scales at pounds was labeled as the school chool champion old oM then I 1 was only 14 H years but jut somehow or other I mana managed d to o nose out tho the older youngsters especially In the so o called O. O This yard yam 2 O- O artl race lace consisted of running from Crom com tho apple alpl tree to tho the pine treo trec and back hack Wo o had ha no track and the ho nearest straightaway wo we hind in iii town own was tho the Main street sidewalk wall said aid D Dr Haymond toda today BEST IN STATE IIa Haymond's Haymonds achl achievements have lla ct to o bo equalled by hy any ste in inho tho ho history of oC tho the state Ho lIo first won von the tho Springville ilIc school sprinting elm championship then tho county count crown rown antI and later Journeyed to Salt Lake ake Lake to annex both tho the and yard 20 dashes in tho state prep When ion Creed arrived to compete in ill time ho state prep meet in 1912 1 tho the and nd yard O dashes lashes were welo tho the chief chic topics of or interest Not because Creed Clec was going oIn to compete but because two brothers ono one Mat Gal- Gal acher lache of West t high and Ferrell Gallacher Gal- Gal acher lacher of ot I L. L D. D S. S and arid Leggroan o of Granite were going oln to fight tight it out arid and for all ahi for tho time city and amI state tate When these husk husky Salt Lakers lined up at the start tart only one omie man ian had hind confidence in n young youn Haymond Ho Ito was Homer Christensen Before the raco race ho told Creed reed Dont forget forSet tho the other f fellows fellows fel- fel cl clows lows arc ale just as u tired as us you Oll are arc areso so o dont don't give o up With these words word fixed i. In li-i his hl mind Haymond walked away with both tho tI-ia and 2 yard 20 y 0 rd dashes a 2 STATE RECORDS He lie came camo back the time next year to state tato meet an and set sot two new records 10 10 0 flat for COl tho the and anti 22 2 flat fiat for tOI ho tho 20 O. O Tho yard record has lias been broken but his yard mark malk till stands stand Creed saw a hl his first track when he entered tho the state Joust The Cummings Cumnings Cum- Cum field speedway so o u pleased him that hat ho he enrolled at the University ot Dr f Utah During hl his freshman 11 year ear ho he 10 experienced setbacks because cause of the he older competition Carl Cline then hen tho Nato Lon Long of or the tho Rocky Hock Mountain conference nosed out Treed Creed in both tho the and O. O and andIn In n so tio doing doing- e established hed two conference confer- confer nce ence records But nut with a year of ot y S I f 5 r 4 I i f S r added experience Creed met Cline Chine who hIo hailed from iron Boulder and arid nosed him u out in both and 2 O races anti and again broke tho conference marks ATTENDED PENN Creed liked tho thu track but his mind was also on his school work He lIe wanted to become a a. dentist University University Uni Uni- v of oC Utah had hind no dental school so ho left the ti-ic Beehive state ann enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania l national and anti InternatIonal international international inter inter- national fume fame awaited him Under tho the direction of or Lawson V. V TIo Robertson ertson Olympic J Creed developed into the ua ha national Intercollegiate Inter Inter- collegiate and anti ar vard man n r For or two years tho the youn youngster ou ster 1 who used to run around from 1101 tree treo to tree treo in Springfield ruled he lie col- col world A He lie ran and l i the time foremost runners runne's of or thO da day Although ho never nevet competed a H Charlie Pa Paddock dock his time fo to the thc O wa was one fifth second better Paddocks f |