Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-05-27 | Page 16 | Six Touted Californians Enter A. A. U. Track Meet This Week

Six Touted Californians Enter EnterA A AAU AU Track Meet This Week By JOHN MOONEY N Now Now- w that Colorados Colorado's golden horde has withdrawn across the Wasatch mountains carrying its third successive Big Seven conference conference conference confer confer- ence track and field title B. B Y Us U.'s cinder adepts are expected to resume their domination of Utah tra track k in the Intermountain in A. A A. A U. U meet at the Ute stadium Sat Sat- With Colorado out of competition tion thI this week the Cougars are expected to dominate the team scoring but they may be forced to t take ke sideline it comes comes' to copping many individual honors Chief reason for this belief lies In the entry of six luminaries from California who are counted to tomake tomake make mak the afternoon entertaining for the spectators and interesting for the competitors Heading the list of ot notables is Olympic Champion Earle Meadows Meadows Meadows Mea Mea- dows who is touting as having cleared 14 feet in competition more times than any other pole vaulter Meadows until recently held the world pole vault record o of 14 feet 11 inches with Bill Sefton Others Others- who will be In the party from Tom the coast are Peyton Jordan former U. U U.S. S. S C. C track captain who is s one one of the better sprinters on ontIe tile tIe coast Art Cazar Cazares s miler roller Tames Tames' Vince Reel hurdler and Bill Wakefield high jumper The return to team domination of Utah will do dothe the Cougars good though since all the B. B Y U. U hopes hones va vague ue though th they v were of Colorado for the conference conference conference con con- ference title vanished with the wind before the heats were completed afternoon Satur Saturdays Saturday's ays competition then was just a form rare race with the fans Keeping on edge edse to see lust I how big C. C Us U.'s margin would be in inthe inthe inthe the meet which was made more spectacular than ever by the smashing of three records the the- tying tying tying ty ty- ty- ty ing of a fourth and the breaking of another which was not allowed because of the wind Record breaking performances Were turned in by Utah's Captain Clarence Gehrke who broke his week od javelin mark with a 1 toss toS of feet Mac Sp Speedie p lE of Utah who skimmed over the ic low hurdles hur hur- dIes in seconds to era erase the 33 seconds mark set bv by Dale of B. B Y U. U In 1936 and Paul Cope of Colorado who topped the high hurdles In to remove the record of set by Dick Kearns of Colorado Cy Ellsworth defending chamIon champIon champion cham- cham pIon Ion in the sprints down the he straightaway to win the century century century cen cen- tury in 96 seconds and equal the mark set by Lenny Powers of Denver in 1933 and then came back to o snip a tenth of a second off the time for the furlong in pacing the distance in seconds A five- five hour mile wind was blowing atthe at atthe atthe the time so of course the time could not have been allowed Colorado scored 86 points with B. B Y U. U registering 56 Utah 36 Colorado Colo Cab rado State 34 Utah State 16 Denver Den Denver Den ver 10 and Wyoming 2