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Show FRANK K. BAKE R , TELEGRAM SPORTS IDITOP. f 1 M j ' As Utah's volunteer ski team, Dave Quinney, Dick JGmball, Bill Siegel and Lawrence Fox gave' the Univer- j sjity of Utah fine representation in the invitation collegiate Jneet at Sun Valley during the holiday. The. fine work of theeboy should do much toward en-ourafinf en-ourafinf university official to eventually make a place for Jkiinj and other winter aport activitie on th regular athletic program for interschool competition, Quinney took first place in the jumping event at Sun Valley, tnaking leap ot 38. S and 37.9 meter in hi official trials. In an inofficial leap, in which he disregarded form in an effort for lllstance, he soared 47.S meter. The record for the hill i SO toeters, held by Alf Engen. , Quinney else was fifth in th combination which Is composite (tending ef effort la th jumping, slalom, down- hill and five-mil cross-country event. Kimball was seventh. These boyi who made the trip to Sun Valley at their Own expense to compete under the school colors are hopeful hope-ful of trying their fortune in March in the Pacific Coast I collegiate meet. They are to be congratulated for their fndeavon, which in effect may blaze a trail for more elaborate elab-orate winter sports program at the university in the future. Another Indication of the national and International Importance Impor-tance attached to th (peed trial on the Bonneville Salt Flat tre In Utah come with th publication of the annual iport re-j re-j view by th New York Time. Excerpt from the lead story by John Drebinger in the Time follow: ' "Inasmuch as speed i still emphasized a the keynote In jom of the sports' most fascinating spectacles, the palm per- ; hap ihould go to th doughty Briton who, last September, ' rolled their high-powered racing machine out on the Bonne- Ule alt flat of Utah to engage In one of the moat amazing , (peed duel of all time. "It wa indeed a year when no record no matter how im- 1 fixing dared call Its soul it own for 24 hours at a clip, as was Jptly demonstrated by the duel between these two Englishmen Who defied th law of inertia a well as those of the traffic ourU by hurtling thir contraptions over the ground at the in- i Credible speed of more than 3S0 m. p. h. 1 I "There wa aa electrifying thrill with the report that I John X. Cobb, a London fur broker, had driven hi super- , I charged machine ever a mease red mile for aa average speed ! of 2S.l m. p. h., the fastest that man had ever propelled j himself ever land. . e "But that night Captain George E. T. Eyston, whose ; . record, set In Augut, had Just been wiped eat, wa heard ' J te mutter, Yeney that!' Whereupon the next forenoon he j e . drove hi eevan-toa Thunderbolt through (pec for aa average speed ef XS7.I m. p. h., er nearly six mile per minute, j ! "That sufficed to induce his compatriot to call truce for I further adjustments, but both are likely to be back to give it an-j an-j bther whirl in 193S with th 400 m. p. h. mark their ultimate I objective." i a |