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Show FA8T EASTERN SPRINTER ENTERS CLASSIC CARD OF ATHLETICS TO BE STAID ARMISTICE DAY i Creed Haymond. national col'ogei 100 and 220 yard champion, captain !of the University of Pencsylvpnia track team during the 1919 season, has ! entered the classic card of athletic events which will be staged here on Armistice day. Raymond is known from one em' of the I nited States to ihe other as one 'of the fastest sprinters that ever don Ined the togs His nark of 9 1-5 sec onds in the century, made at Sagg I field in Chicago in 1913, in the Inter-Scholastic Inter-Scholastic championships of mer'ca, lis one which any runner would be Jijat ly proud of. In the 20 yv.rd dash Hay I mond has a mark of 21 1-5 seconds I which is a world record On .hree oc j CasIonS in Utah Haymond tore the fur-lonc fur-lonc in record time find while at P'-nn he accomplished the feat on three separate events. Haymond started his career at 'he Ispringvllle high school ia IS'iC He was a star during the earlv school c'ays and trained for mon'hs i ided by a race horse which his father owned. He practiced on stride and speed run-running run-running and In 1913 when he entered the state interschoh'stic meet he set a new state record for the high schools In both the 100 and 220 yard rum In the hundred he covered the distance in 10 flat while he covered the furlong in 22 seconds. Both records stil! st?nd. Crimson Star. Entering the University of Utah in i915 he was a star of the first oider and won many races lor the crimson .At Colorado that year he defeated 'he great Clino In both spriul races &nd came Dack in tne nine rc lav ,imu o ered the last 440 ya-ds in 49 seconds, nosing Cline out at the finis'.; by inches. Critics who saw Hayncnd perform on that day stamped him as one of the world's greatest runners. Th- l tali relay team vomposed of Collier. Col-lier. Romney. Tcasdel and Hiym nd j;et the conference mile record at 3.34 on that day The mrk still st.:nds. Haymond has competed in races from coast to coast and ha won scores of first places. In the bix Pei n relay carnival staged at Franklin fi. !d. C'.iil-sdelphla; C'.iil-sdelphla; last sprint. Haymund was one of the brieht .dars of the forty schools represented. He was a member of four relay teams whicn broke four world records and in completing his final fi-nal year at school he annexed his , name on the new record cnart-' as ell as with the word nitionol c.impion. Ogden fans of this city will tare 'he-privilege 'he-privilege of seeing one of Amenu's I greatest track stars in hainecr., a man . that is from Utah, and a mar. that is 1 I'M ; j i rated the world over with the ten best urn,! stars the world his ?er lijfflj known. Haymond ftlll run unaitacl;ed tlSri in the coming meet and will compete HH in the century and lur'ong J |