Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-05-19 | Page 23 | Shot Mark due to Take Tumble

Shot Mark Due ToTakeTumble AMES, Is-. May II IfPV-A wide-open wide-open race for th Big 81a conference outdoor track and field champion ship started bar today at Clyde William field. Nina preliminaries were on th first-day program with poeelbiUUee of now records la four events to get th show off to a sparkling start before th finale tomorrow afternoon. after-noon. Missouri's Tigers won th tit I a year ago at Lincoln, Nea. Sonne railblrds said Nebraska's Comhuskers, perennial rulers of Big Six track and field prior to hurt year, and Oklahoma wsro ths leading possibilities to dethrone th Tigers. Other Insiders, however, said It was no certainty that Missouri would drop Its championship and also pointed out that results this spring indicated Kansas Stat, with big Elmer Hackney, ths country's best sbotputtsr, Kansas and Iowa Stats could b figured as tltls threats,