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Show B. A. C. AFTER STATE MEET Believe That With Heasonable Luck They Can Land First Place Today at Salt Lake. Last Wednesday afternoon Coach Christenson of tho B. A. C. with some six or seven of his huskiest nthlctes departed for Salt Lake City to en-gago en-gago in the annual stato high school contest, which is on nt that place today. to-day. Notwithstanding tho fact that tho local school took only third' place in tho division high school meet held here last Saturday, the coach and loam have strong hopes of landing first place in the stato tournament, barring any unforsccn accident and with reasonable luck in tho drawing of tracks, etc. Tho events which tho B. A. C. has the strongest hopes of winning are the short sprints the 100 and 220 yard dash'- tho high and broad jumps, tho hammer throw, tho relay race and perhaps tho hurdles, if Riddle Rid-dle is entered, as well as somo second and third places in theso ovents. It is believed that the Southern division di-vision this year is easily the strongest strong-est division of the state, according to the records published of tho various meets, and as there wero only six points between tho first and last places in the southern meet, with only a little bad luck in the drawing of tracks, n case of fouling nnd the indisposition in-disposition of one of tho B. A. C.'s best sprinters to prevent them from taking the meet with several points to spars, it is confidently believed that the local school will capture the state meet. For instance, had Jones been at himself and havo ran about equal to Gurr, as it is said ho has been doing in practico work, we would surely have landed tho relay race carrying eight points, which went to Dixie on tho closest decision it was possible to ( make, anil tho 220 yards dash, with its 5 points for first place. These two events, in tho natural course of cjr- j cumstanccs, without doubt belonged , to the B. A. C, and would have more I than won the meet. In tho quarter . mile run Brooksby was fouled twice, and completely ehut in, or lie would have won first or second placo without I a doubt. In tho stato meet there will j be judges on tho turns to look out for j such violations of rules. In the hurdles, hurd-les, Riddle entered tho event without previous practice, and yet in tho second sec-ond half of the distanco covered by tho race, was rapidly closing the gap botween himself and Hodges, tho Murdock hurdler. McConncll, who had won all the way through in tho broad jump, was beaten one inch by Durham of Murdock, on his last trial, giving tho local man no opportunity for a "come-back" at the now mark, or it is almost .a certainty that ho would have won. And had tho actual distance between tracks at start and finish have been measured, tho home man would havo won by four or five inches. It is only reasonable to suppose sup-pose that tho results will be changed in tho stato meet. Altogether the prospects for the B. A. C. to win tho stato meet nro most reassuring. |