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Show Fieldhouse Suits Utes In Opening Track Drill The University of Utah's new $220,000 fieldhouse again proved its worth Tuesday as Coach Ike Armstrong sent 16 Redskin Red-skin trackmen through their first workouts of the season fully two months earlier than ever before in track and field history at the university. Usually in mid-January track hopefuls are lounging around the Union building or the libraries, dozing doz-ing and dreaming of that 9.6 hundred, hun-dred, that 4:20 mile or the 1:56 half mile they plan to run once they're able to get outdoors in their running togs and get In shape. This year, however, the setup li quite changed. Any youth who has hopes of becoming a track and field star can begin fulfilling his plana any afternoon now by Just reporting on the running track In the fieldhouse. Two tentative Indoor meets have been read into the conference minutes. min-utes. Coach Armstrong reported, but the meets in Salt Lake City and Logan between the Ute and Aggie runners are still up in the air awaiting approval of the athletic ath-letic councils. Eight lettermen will be available avail-able for duty this spring, according accord-ing to Armstrong, although tha possibilities for a strong team depend de-pend largely on the strength of several sophomore prospects. Captain Clarence Gehrke, all-conference all-conference Javelin thrower, leads the parade of veterans which Includes In-cludes Pete Bogden, weight thrower; throw-er; Maurice Barlow, miler; Reid Shepard, 440; Deral Bishop, sprinter; sprint-er; Dan Hunter, pole vault; Rulon Calllster, hurdles, and Mervin Jones, broad jump. Most promising of the sophomore track and field men are Mac Spee-die, Spee-die, hurdler; Boyd Stansfleld, 880; Rue Dastrop, two mile; Eugene Prlgmore, miler; Melly Atkinson, high Jump and pole vault; Darrell Jensen, hurdles; John Stewart, sprinter, and Ray Stewart, high Jumper. The squad, which will be augmented aug-mented later by the appearance of several hopefuls who are now competing com-peting on other athletic teams, is expected to work out daily in the fieldhouse until weather permits the outdoor drills. Darrell Jensen, one of Coach Ike Armstrong's sophomore hurdling hurd-ling prospects, gets a few pointers from the Ute mentor on the correct exercises to limber up before soaring over the high sticks in his first night of track practice in tho new field-house. field-house. Jensen is expected to help carry the Red and White colors In the hurdles this year along with Bulon Callister and Mae Speedie. t |