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Show MILFORD GIVEN 4 CHANCE TO BID FOR UNIT MEET UNION PACIFIC PROBES SENTIMENT AMONG LOCAL MEN To what extent the town of Mil-ford Mil-ford and railway employees' organffca-tions organffca-tions would be interested in having the unit athletic meet held in Mil-ford Mil-ford this summer, was the object of a trip to Milford last Friday of R. R. Smith, Special Representative of the Union Pacific General Manager; A. C. Frees, Athletic Director for the Los Angeles and Salt Lake unit; and A. A. Hendricks, Athletic Director for the Union Pacific system. Meeting Friday evening at the employees' em-ployees' clubhouse with the members of the Athletic club and representatives representa-tives of the Milford Lions club, the officials present spoke optimistically of Milford's chances to secure the meet provided sufficient interest were shown here. According to the tenor of their remarks, it was evident that Milford stood the best chance of any of the towns who have applied for the honor of staging the meet. Will Take Much Money A sum of between one thousand and fifteen hundred dollars guaranteed will be necessary to finance the 'meet More definite figures will be submitted submit-ted to the president of the Athletic Club soon, and these figures will be passed on to the railway organizations and the Lions Club for their consideration. consider-ation. Events of AH Kinds The meet will consist of all events of an athletic nature. There will be the usual track and field events found at all meets of that sort, but in addition, ad-dition, there will be trap-shooting, rifle-shooting, baseball games, fire-bridage fire-bridage contests, band concerts, tennis, ten-nis, horseshoes, and other sports. There are also swimming and golf , included on the list, but if Milford secures the meet, it is possible that the latter contests will be held elsewhere, else-where, probably at Las Vegas. In an effort to make Milford especially especial-ly attractive to the athletic directors in their recommendations as to where to hold the meet, local athletic officials of-ficials are considering laying out a golf course west of town, near the rifle range. This, it is believed, will not only mean an extra inducement to bring the meet here, but will be an asset to Milford in a purely civic way, as it is thought that a golf course here would be well patronized by Milford people. Other Towns After It Other applicants for the meet are Las Vegas and Cedar City. Milford stands a good chance to win over these applicants as Las Vegas is so located as to present difficulties because be-cause of its mid-summer heat, while Milford is more centrally located than Cedar City. Los Angeles has not :nade a bid for the meet, and also states that the athletic club there will back the meet in great numbers should it be held in a town on the Salt Lake division. Their big fifty-piece fifty-piece band would likely be sent complete. com-plete. While the problem of financing is a great one, Milford people are weighing the advertising and publicity features which would go along with the meet. The town of Milford should eap a rich harvest from the publicity publi-city alone, in addition to making a ":reat day locally when the vast crowd swoops down upon the town on the ('ay of the meet. Date Undetermined The unit meet must be held by July !Mth, according to Mr. Smith. He mentioned a Sunday as a favorable 1'ay, as this would cause a minimum (if loss sustained in time by athletes ! eing away from their work. How ever, this docs not seem so good to i Milford people, as they do not feel j ; hat the town would respond as well ' s if the meet were held on another) i'ay. Most people who have expressed . themselves on the choice of date, are l oping that July 24th, Utah Day, will he selected. This is a state holiday, find would mean the possibility of "lore people being able to attend rom Salt Lake, Provo, and the larger 'tah cities. If Milford wants the meet badly nough, it would seem that it could be secured. It will bring thousands of people into town. The athletic park in Milford, according to Mr. Hendricks, is ideal, although there will be quite a bit of labor necessary on the track and baseball diamond, i It will be the biggest thing that ( Milford has ever sponsored in its ! history and will therefore take the . united efforts of all groups and individuals in-dividuals to put it over, j To date, no word has been received ! by local officials in regard to the definite de-finite guarantee it will he necessary to raise through advance sale of I tickets and other means. |