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Show Strong Track Team Seen at C. U. As Buffalos Show Much Promise DENVER, Feb. 24 (AP) Performances at the Indoor meet in Colorado university's spacious field house last Saturday night indicated in-dicated Frank Potts' Buffalos will be the class of the eastern division divi-sion of the Rocky Mountain conference again this spring. C U. has more experienced men' and better balance than Colorado State, which apparently will be the Buffs' only serious rival. Colorado's runners, too, looked in somewhat more advanced condition than Happy Hap-py Hughes' Farmers. John Phillips of Colorado, who set an Indoor record of 61.S seconds sec-onds in beating Gordon Winn, Colorado Colo-rado State's conference champion, in the 440, says the taciturn Potts deserves all the credit for his Improvement. Im-provement. "I wss just one of the boys last year." Phillips said, "but this year I've changed my stride I'm running run-ning a lot smoother. I think Frank Potts could make a good man out of the most mediocre runner." Phillips ran third in the quarter mile in the 1S3S conference meet, Ed Haynes, Denver track coach, occupied a bleacher seat near the tape. Haynes thinks "several of these Aggies are going to make trouble trou-ble for all of us before they're through," especially Walter Hamilton, Hamil-ton, blond sprinter, hurdler -and broad jumper. For the first time In this conference, con-ference, the new rule was Invoked to decide a tie In the high jump. Norman Cable of Colorado Stats and Gilbert Cruter and Don Deffke of Colorado all missed at S feet 4, after clearing 8-2. Cable was given the blue ribbon because he missed only four times In the series of jumps, while Cruther knocked down the bar five times and Deffks six. . The winning height was S 7-8 inches under the height Cruter cleared a year ago for the greatest leap ever made by a college athlete in the Rockies. |