Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-19 | Page 23 | Potts Sees Six Firsts Fir Cougars

Potts Sees Six Firsts . For Cougars DENVER, My 19 (-Colorado optned lu driv for iU aecond con- Mcutiva Big Seven conference track title today ai pike troupei from the sevei schools tested th cinders and tun of Denver's mile lush stadium. Qualifying trlali In nine events ant ths finals in th hammer tbroi were slated for to- day's pro gram starting at 4 p. m The finals tomorrow tomor-row will get undei way with the firal field events at i f - a t- a- p. m. and ths in- Potts Itial race, the milerun, at :30. Frank Potts' Colorado team Is seeking seek-ing domination of track sports in the Rockies- Ths Buffalo! won ths last 12-coUege Rocky Mountain con-e con-e ference meet two years ago. Preliminary tests will trim down ths field in the sprints, hurdles, 440-ysrd 440-ysrd dash, ths shotput, javelin, discus dis-cus and broad Jump. Entrants In ths 880, mile and two-mils races . and ths high jump and pole vault ' will compete only in tomorrow's finals. Potts looks for much tougher competition for his team thsn when it made a mockery of the meet at Salt Lake City last spring. Brig-' Brig-' ham Young, western division champion; cham-pion; Colorado Stats and Utah, ths conference runner-up last year, ahould keep the Buffalo hustling. One new conference record had been hung up already this season t and two othsrs msy be registered before the lsst strand of yarn Is napped Saturday. Loren Creess, Colorado sophomore sopho-more football tackle, shattered the shotput mark that had stood sines , 1930 by hsaving ths iron ball 48 feet t inches in last wssk's sastsrn division meet ' If wsrm weather and a fast strip greet the athletes, Paul Cop of Colorado might knock a fraction off th high hurdles mark of 14.5 seconds sec-onds Dick Kearns, also of Colorado, hoisted two years ago. Cops, a v junior, tied that time last week. Carl Clark of Brigham Young has bettered the conference pole vault record of 13 feet inches in practice this spring, although his best competitive mark of the season was an inch under that height Other outstanding performer this year and their best records: 100-yard and 220-yard dashes, Cy Ellsworth, Brigham Young, e.8 and 21.7 seconds; 440, Wiles Hallock, Dsnvsr, 4DS seconds: 880. Henry Bourne, B. Y. U 1:87.8; mile, Henry Hobbs, a Y and Ed Hart, Utsh, 4:27.4: two-mile, Clyde Hardy. Utah, 10:07.7; low hurdles, Cope, 24 seconds; sec-onds; high jump, Leonard James, Utah Stats, feet 2 incbee; broad jump. Walter Hamilton, a U 22 feet 8 Inches; hammer, Dave Schlo-thauer, Schlo-thauer, Colorado Bute. 1U feet 11H Inches: javelin. Proctor Bohman, B. Y. U., 195 feet; discus, Miks Ju-rich, Ju-rich, D. U- 145 feet 10 Inches. Potts predicted Brighsm Young would sweep six first places, including includ-ing th mil relsy, with Colorado winning four, Utah three, Colorado State two and Utah State one. "We'll pick up a few fourth and fifth places, but these points won't amount to a lot toward beating out B. Y. U, Colorado State and Utah university. Ths outcoms of ths meet, a I see It, will hinge upon Brigham Young's ability to cut in on ths seconds and thirds w hope , to collect"