Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-29 | Page 10 | Denver Club Seeks Services of Five Utah Track Stars

00 . Denver Club Seeks j Services of Five j Utah Track Stars With prospects for a Digger and better year in athletics in the west Tn country the Denver Athletic club' of Denver, Colo, has written etters to a number of Utah athletes in which they urge the Utahns to represent them in athletic competition W. Creed Haymond, Al Warden, Ted Johnson, Clinton Larson ..nd Alma Richards are some of the track stars who have received lete)s from ih Denver organization. Warden represented h? Denver or- ........l.v, , iJ1( ,u ,ne aig, ten mile classic staged at Denver, while ,'ohn sun woie the colors rtf he Denvci 1 lub lor a number of yes I J. , Haymond Is the national collegiate champion in the 100 and 220 yard dai-h ' events and is rated as the fusees! fur long runner America has evej kno'- r. lie capuuned the University o Pcnn sylvanta track and field siars during the past y,,ar and has - ab.'ished a great record throughout ihe cnt.r country. Alma Richards w;s n member of he Olympic team in 1912 and won the High jump at Stockholm Since tbul time he has won scores of track 1 events. He coppPd the all-around championship at San Francisco in 1915 and at Paris during rhe 1919 meet of the allies won the high point ' honors. Clinton Larson. R. Y. U Mar. is! rs ed as the greatest aerial man that the track world has ever developed. Larson copped the high jump al ; Pans this year and was the nation .1 champion In 1916 and 1917. lie has a, record of 6 feel 7"i inches in il , hich jump Ted Johnson, fovuier western champion, cham-pion, is a long distance runner of on-i siderable note. He has xvon races in all parts of the country and has won i the bi Denver ten-mile event, on four! occasions. Johnson is being sough.i lor the ten mile Jaunts for the Denver club. He has been on th" path for the past ten years and is still able tol step off miles in fast order. Al Warden started his running e ; reer in 1915 at Palt Lake and has won I" more Man one hundred races i:ir-ithat i:ir-ithat time. He explained the ir-ok I earn at San Diepo under n.' il colors and has a record of 1 minute and T-7 '.seconds in the half mile fo est&b fished a record of 21 minute's and 15 (seconds for four miles at Snll Lakr' 'in 1916. which has never been Drokcn. i The Denver clubmen are a is.) afier 1 1 he services of Bob Martin, the Sfar distance runner of ih.' s . Lakn Elks. However Martin must serve another an-other year under the colors of the 'Elks before changing organizations.