Show Backseat Driving By Frank K Baker Telegram Sports Editor Runner Will Shine for Y in Mile Milo The Lone Star S r State and the landof land lane of ot clanking castanets and strumming guitars have united to provide the Cougars of B. B Y U. U with one of their most colorful runners this season eason His form is as Individual as the line of events that brought him to the school at Provo In fact hes he's as free from accepted style as the pinto pony he so aptly imitates when he runs with his head thrown back his hair flying in the wind like the mane of ofa a wild horse Lamar Taylor is only a fre freshman hman He is not yet a record breaker He HeIs Heis Heis is wiry and sturdy though and is destined to cut quite a il figure in the mile and half hat mile runs before he heis heis heis is through He is no giant being only five feet six inches tall and weighing on only pounds but his 21 years on the ranges along the Rio Grande have given him legs of steel and lungs that seem to stand pressure like a boiler boner 4 Id Like to Try Out For Track Said Ho Taylors Taylor's advent at the Y is as ro romantic ro ro- mantic mantle as the land from which he hails halls Id like to try tryout out for the track team he said simply to Coach Ott Romney one ne afternoon What can you do countered the Cougar coach his bass voice boom booming booming booming ing as his eyes appraised d the little fellow before him Oh Id I'd like to to try the mile half and mile runs said heO heO he O 0 K Get out there and lets let's see sec what you oU can do Out he trotted head high hands down Poor form perhaps but he was still trotting ahead of the pack when the race was over Taylor knew no previous coaching He attended El Paso Texas high school for three years running the middle distances in his last year ear and doing the in 14 nt at an eastern Texas meet for the only time a watch was held on him in prep schools schools' Last year he was a student in a school conducted by the L. L D. D S. S church at Colonia Juarez Mexico and was Induced to continue his training at B. B Y U. U b by Tony Bentley Bent Bent- Ie icy ley former Y distance runner Taylor will run both the and the mile runs Saturday against the Vies Utes In the dual dULl meet at Provo Pro and hes he's going DIng to be hard lureS to beat Like Wright ht of or Utah's sprint squad Taylor has yet yd to be really rel tested Romney believes the boy can do the mile In 48 and the half halt mile in two minutes flat fit His Ills best time in early carly trials this year ur for the Is 15 2013 and 5 4 for the mile Faces Problem of I Lengthening His is Stride I Romney faces the necessity now of lengthening Taylors Taylor's stride hoping that by another year he can cnn have the Texan covering at least a a half foot more with wilh each step Stretching a runners runner's stride is delicate deli cate business Sometimes a runner lunner is spoiled altogether by the process unless it is done slowly enough not notto notto notto to disrupt the rest of his form An outstanding example cf of Romneys Romney's success in that line however is Lon Kump whom Ott coached at East high here Kump became one of the states stales best for tor his period after aftel stretching the scope of his stride c. c Ta Taylor lor Is a conscientious fellow Early this week Romney instructed him to run the half hall mile setting 62 seconds for the first quarter and 63 for th the last Taylor ran the first half exactly on schedule but outdid himself on ori the final lap and 2nd ran itin it itin itin in Cl 61 When told he had run it two seconds sec see faster than asked he wanted to run it over again to sec see if he could do it exactly on schedule |