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Show LOCAL HIGH'S CHANCES GO GLIMMERING . - Strict Eligibility Rales Bar Star Athletes; Manager Mclntyre Resigns. . BT "BILL" TATSa A the result of the eisqneliacatiea , of Captain Oeorg Atkia of th track team yesterday by Principal Ooorge A. Eaten of th high acheo ud the resignation resig-nation of Huntr Boy Mclntyre this . morning, tho Salt Loko hlfk ochool will, la all probability, not bo rapro-tnUd rapro-tnUd la tbo stat moot this iprlBf nor put oot into tbo Bold a track uan at all. . - - i . : Tho list of all track and baaaball man was turned Into th ofllco yesterday by ' tha respective manigsrs. Th back Ust was th worst mutilated of the two aa "Juddy" Atkln, tha Tory baok boo of th wast aiders la track and on of tho bast all round track and field maa who haa ever beea produced at th local high auboeL was doslaratt insUgibl and not only that, but bayonet ba-yonet all hopes ot ovav ' up his vacs work. Atkm, who was eUoesu last sirisrf to captain this year 's track team, waa anowiug better lorm than nt any previous previ-ous time, h had beea working tor ,' several mouths iu Ilia Kymuaaiuu. aud in tha early work tifat uaa bean done the paat two weeaa showed exceptional kill ia th shot, sprints and jumps and would undoubtedly hava lowered all of hie old recurUa by in tint ot th stat iatursesoiaatlc meet. . All the old mea, including Manager Mtintyre, are thoroughly uiacouraged, aa there IS ae proper lieu! on iim to work out and their eapta.a ia gone. Melntyr turned in his resignation Inis niorniug and the track wura will not bs continued. This will be the Aral year that the high school has tailed to put a track team into the field, but to do as thia year would mean a I in ust a sure defeat. Wheeling and Atkm are both out of running, which takes froai the red and black team two men who have never been beaten by scku!sst,s track men ia Utah. Tbtae two men alone sotiid be rounted upon fur twenty-five twenty-five or thirty points essiiy. It is not th rules mad by th stat interseholaatin athletic association, nut tb rulea that govern the west siders in athletics that haa cat out the Hii( stars. Both Atkln and Wheeling are eiieible to compete uoder the rule of . any other school ia the stats, but the high sholastie staudard maintained nt the high school throws them out, which means that two holders cf stale inter-srsolsatie inter-srsolsatie records (a I'lah' wjil be out of tbe meet on May iu anil that the local high school, which i- tke tardea! institution ia the stats, will not compete. com-pete. ' " ' Now that trark will aot be taken up, all energies will be turned towsrd bane-ball bane-ball and unless half the baeehsll men "flunk" out the red nnd black color bearers will put into th field one of the strongest sine ever produced by tbem. Although th loss of Aikm la a joit, there ar several other promising young pitcher at the high school who rsa nil I down ths pine in the box with entire satisfaction. '" This spring prdhiised to outiVine any other for the hivb school as far hack aa its trsck work wss concerned. The in-vltatioa in-vltatioa of the University of California Califor-nia for the Ideal school to compete In th Pscifle soast intcracholaatie mret on April S9 was to hav been accepted and with Atkln and Wheeling nmoag the entriea the west aiders would ksis ataad n bright 'chance df being dcnlt out a first or et W"t. given a sail when tb flonl reckoning .waa made. |