Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 9 | Utah Relay Team First to Enter Drake U Relays

Utah Relay T TeamS Team earn First t to Enter Drake U Relays Co Coach ch Armstrong Will Take 5 or 6 Stars to to Des Moines Moines' When the University of medI medley y and and mile mUe relay reay teams take talie their post in the annual ake Drake re rela re- re la lays s 's it will wUl mark the first time ever in the history of the U. U of U. U a relay reay team has been entered in a ameet ameet meet east of the Mississippi riven liven I Utah will wll be represented in the medley relay mile rel relay y mile and mile half-mile and possibly the javelin The five or six athletes to make the I trip to Des Moines will be in charge of or Coach 1 I J. J Armstrong former Drake university football star who needs no Introduction around Des DesMoines DesMoines DesMoines Moines his old collegiate stamping grounds Jackie Burton vho Who is rated as as the cream of ot the at the present and as as' the b best st rUn runner er ev evor in Een-in in n in In this part of t tie the e country will b be Utah's best bet in the tile relays Jackie nas taken part in ina a. a couple of ot nati national scholastic meets meets' and aud Js not riOt lacking In experience e. e While In high school Burton won von v n the mile ter-mile and mile half-mile events atthe at itt atthe the tile Chicago meets S B Burton is is doing his second year on the the- track at the Crimson sch school ol He graduated from Davis county high During his first year of coll college college col col- col- col l lege ge track he w was s never never beaten neaten and n he ran everything fr from ni the 00 y yard rd dash to the toe half mlle He n now w holds th the Rocky Mountain Mountain con conference confer confer- er- er ence mile half record making the vo t Japs aps in 1 minute 73 seconds He lIe also holds the state record in inthe inthe I the e quarter at seconds and nd the half mile a at 1 minute 81 seconds I In the class track meet this year Burton clipped off oft the the mile halt in two minutes flat fiat showing that he heis heis is headed towa toward d another r banner year ear Dile to bad w weather ther the Ute ha have ve been v working ou out t In th the open for only t the e past two W weeks ks Burton Is scheduled to run the the mile half-mile in th the medley rel relay y yand am and take part in in th the mile half special Saturday and nd the mile relay Jack Squires is s scheduled tun torun the mile I in the medley y relay elay nd sp l l mile mUe race Captain Captain- Adrian Pembroke Pembroke Pem Pem- broke an and ana l' l Joe Folca Foica liri the quarters in the medley relay and and these two bo boy along with Evans and Burton will make tip the mile rel relay y team The mile rea relay team c of Burton Polca Folca Evans and nd Pom- Pom broke brok cleaned up pp on on Y everything Lyth ng in inthe in the conference last year rated das d. d as as' one of the speediest Joil mile relay teams ever turned out in Utah Doral Pilling the av lIr thrOwer throw r. r is likely to be the sixths sixth man hinn to tomake tomake tomake make the trip east Pilling Holds t the e c conference re record ord at 1839 1839 1830 feet r et and If he can come any Vh anywhere re around this mark prior to the the departure arture for the he east he will m make le the the trip