| Show I r THE REAL DOPE f t t By BILL COLTRIN i V I Clint Larsen who can hold the title of I Mr fr Track and ad andField I Field if anyone can in these parts dropped into the office the other day to talk up the A AAU A U meeting scheduled for May ray I 28 in Utah stadium but before the session broke up we had learned a lot of things about Clint we never knew before j I Among the things which we doubt if many know is that I Larsen will be head judge of the high jump at the national A AAU A U meet on June 24 at Fresno Cal and that he has been invited to fly to Europe with a track team this summer summer sort sort of an ambassador of good will will will-to to go along with the boys Looks Like Fine Track Meet First to make Clint happy well we'll point out that therell there'll be bemore bemore bemore more than competitors in the intermountain A AAU A U and that I proceeds of the meet will help send Rocky mou mountain aces to the national meet Three are a cinch to go and all stand a good I chance of placing high according to Larsen These three boys are Ralph Roylance whose javelin mark compares very favorably with an any in the nation Clarence Robison Robison Robison Robi Robi- son whose distance running leaves little to be desired and Keith I whose high hurdle time is good enough to rate a ashot ashot ashot j shot at the nationals Since Roylance Rolance probably will be representing Utah State college Robison B Y 1 U and Utah at the N C A A Ameet Ameet meet at Los Angeles the week preceding the national A A U it seems a cinch that all three will be shooting for big honors j jUp I Up at Idaho they are booming a miler to who is going I to make Robison run his best in the intermountain A AAU A U and I if he can push Robbie that normally dull race may be the high highlight highlight I light of the meet here next week I The Copper Co has underwritten all the expenses i of the medals and therell there'll be gold for first silver for second and bronze for third A special yard high school relay event has been put on the program and this should be worth the price of admission alone When a Dive Becomes a Jump We Ve got Clint to talking by asking him how much difference the rather new jumping high-jumping rule makes This new rule was made back seven or eight years ago and it allows just about anything whereby in the old days a jumper had to go over feet first Now the high jump is more like a dive and anyone can see eee that it is easier Well Veil Clint opined I believe belie that it should add six or eight inches to a jumpers jumper's marks The only rule they have now is that the athlete must take off on one foot ot but Ill I'll predict that that restriction will be thrown out this year ear and that absolutely anything will be okeh from now on Perhaps the biggest day in one respect in Clints Clint's life was in 1918 in Texas At the arm arms aviation championships there I Clint won five events both hurdles the broad jump pole vault i and the high jump and took second in the yard dash I IThe I The prizes were peculiar He received pocketknives shoes I and watermelons watermelons enough watermelons so that the whole company company com corn pany got a feast Held Field Worlds World's Jumping High-Jumping Record i It was Wag in 1917 when he was at his peak though That is the year he did 7 6 6 for a worlds world's record and did 6 5 8 6 s 's at the I Pennsy relays a meet mark that stood for 17 years And once I he be won that strange event the event the hop step and jump Clint lives for track and field Now he is touting young oung Joe Kenned Kennedy of South high school as a corner comer note that he did as as well or better in the state high school meet than the college bo boys s 's did jumped did jumped about 6 And I expect him to place high in the A AAU A U meet next week Clint said When Larsen was high jumping everyone was using the old scissors style but Larsen improved on it by starting his leap in about the same way and then doing a back roll over the bar I It was picked up all by himself out in the sagebrush and mesquite when I was a boy I |
