| Show Three-Cornered Three Fight For Conference Track Title Is in Prospect Cougars and Colorado Arc Outstanding Favorites This Week Weck Many lullY Brilliant Features in State Combat I IBy By BOB GOODELL Colorado Aggles Utah and B. B Y U. U are expected to fight Ifor for top honors in the Rocky mountain conference track and andfield andfield andfield field meet Friday and Saturday in the U stadium With eastern and western division performances closely matched a hard-fought hard battle is in prospect from start to finish Utah state champion on this side of the by virtue of at Saturdays Saturday's hard-fought hard victory banks on a dazzling array of at sprinters led by Harold Wright The Utes also should score heavily in high jump low and high hurdles and mile run with scattering points in broad Jump pole vault and I weights B B. B Y U. U only a shade behind the Redskins counts on its distance and middle distance runners rs featuring Lamar Tl Taylor lor ace cef t miler Outstanding f. f strength in the HO v 4 event and mile relay re re- re-n re lay also is seen to together together to- to to-i to gether with evidence evidence evi evl- I dence of point scoring In low hurdles hur hur- t hur-t 4 dies dIe s s sprints sprints- p r I n t s r weights and possibly pos pos- v ft sibly the broad jump and javelin Colorado f. f j- j r r have a great array Y of weight men j headed b by the hammer heaving j Ivan D y k e m a n nfl who also shines in in- in and high hurdles The Ag- Ag Greenwell gics gies are powerful in the Hurdles distance distance dis dis- dis tance runs and pole vault where their men ran wild in the eastern division division division divi divi- sion meet in which C. C A. A C. C almost doubled the point total of Its nearest I competitor Colorado U. U I The three leading contenders may be counted on to divide first places with fair equality The big battle is for tor the spots from second to fi fifth th In Inclusive in- in elusive with n a point scoring method of 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 and anel 1 to be used Consequently Fridays Friday's preliminaries ies in the U stadium take on vital Importance The team that qualifies es most heavily l for the finals will take the role of favorite In a hurr hurry Ut Utah h did the expected Saturday by taking the measure of B B. B Y U. U by a 66 3 1 to 58 3 2 score trailed with 27 counters less counters less than expected because of ot Utah's surprising strength In some of the field events Disqualification Disqualification Disqualification of the winning Redskin yard ard relay team cost the Armstrong men five additional points that would have made their margin a bit larger Harold Wright one of or the greatest sprinters In Rocky Mountain conference history proved the big gun of the meet when he tied two state records winning the century in 98 93 sec see second seconds onda ond and 1041 the In seconds In the he tied the marks of oC Dave Pearce and Owen Rowe of B B. B Y U U. and Nate Long Long- of Utah while hIie in the furlong furlone- he ho equaled led the great reat mark of Creed Haymond liar Hay mond established establish cd In 1915 Howard Porky Greenwell of ot the Utes proved another sprint hero by placing an easy second in the and tying Grant Hutchinson of B. B Y U. U for second in the Many observers ers thought that Greenwell had nosed out his Cougar rival In the longer race as well as the With Wright Greenwell Jack Bennett Ben Ben- nett nelt and possibly Herman Goldstein in the conference meet the Utes will willbe willbe be hard to catch In the sprints Goldstein Goldstein Gold Gold- stein did not take part in the state event but Coach Ike Iko Armstrong hopes to use him in a l race or two inthe in inthe inthe the conference classic B. B Y U. U won von seven first places Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- Utah following with six and with four All of which demonstrates demonstrates dem dam that the Cougars cannot be counted out In tho the R. R M. M C. C scramble Coach Ott Romney has his best track team in man many moons Lamar Taylor of B. B Y U. U met his stiffest competition of the season eason when Milton MUton Red Cowan of the Redskins finished only two yards behind him inthe inthe in inthe the mile mUe run The Cougar freshman romped off oft in his customary place in inthe inthe inthe the van of the milers and beat of off the challenge of Gray Lust Lusty only to find tind Cowan matching strides with him on the final straightaway T Taylor had the necessary sprint to win in the fast fasttime fasttime fasttime time of All sorts 9 of lr boxing featured the yard HO-yard dash Pete Wilson of the Cougars started in front and stayed there Lyndon his teammate who had previously been undefeated in that event was boxed in at the start and Freddie Hartenstein of Utah suffered a similar fate on the last last turn terrific being necessary necessary necessary sary to give them second and third places respectively Glen of ot Apples Acles turned in ina a brilliant race to win the twomile twomile two- two mile run from Taylor of the Courar Cou Cou- gars who has improved with every meet took the lead early euly and stayed there to o win in fast fut time of 1005 far ahead of Taylor Talor Brad Jen Jensen en veteran Cougar half half- miler finished strong to defeat John Fetzer Utah freshman in 1595 1 Jensen Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- sen ran a heady race and had plenty of reserve power at the thc finish while Fetzer uncorked his best a bit too early in the race Utah got two t P places s each in the hammer and discus Jack Johnson came within six-hundredths six of a foot of ot Scotts Scott's winning hammer throw in the opening event of the day Utah showed its mile lo relay possibilities in the final event of ot the day when Hartenstein almost beat out Dudley of B. B Y U U. after aUer Pete Wilson had given the Cougar anchor man a 3 big lead The Thc time was fast and observers point to th the fact that one Harold Wright will be used In the conference meet |
