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Show I AMATEUR ! CHATTER By Al Warden j i Ted Meredith, former university of I .Pennsylvania track and field star, and! I one one the greatest stars that ever! donned the Penn uniform, may reprc-j sent the Meadowbrook club in the east-, ern trials for tho Olympic team nexti I June at Philadelphia. Meredith wa.sj national 440-yard champion in 1915. j James Campbell, national 880-yard j champion, and a brother of the famous! iLeroy Campbell, former title holder iu the same event, will wear the colors of the Chicago A. A., in the mid western west-ern trials. Campbell is nof a freshman fresh-man at tho University of Chicago. Ho iwon the national SSO-yard title while 'a student at the Lewis Institute at j Chicago. 1 Baseball practice at the Utah Aggie ' lair will start as soon as weather conditions con-ditions will penult according to Coach Lowell Romuey. Romney has some ; first class men at the Aggie lair in jarvis, Dee, Falck, Spencer, Hansen, (Andrus and Gardner. I I Oscar Smith state intcrscholastic ; 100-yard champion In 1919, Is in prime condition for the high school track 'games this spring. . iJmiUi holds a vie-,toiy vie-,toiy ocr Creed Haymond and is rated fis one of Utah's greatest spring stars. !l-le is a student at the East high school Bob Weaver, one of the best athletic j boosters on the Pacific coast is planning plan-ning a number of entertainments tor ,ihe track and field stars that enter the western Olympic trials al Pasadena Pasade-na next June. Weaver Is one of Cnl-j Cnl-j itornia's greatest boosters and while he has not announced the program, it ' is a certainty that the members of tho I Ogden A. A. will be well taken care of J In Vern Funk, Coach Homer Chrlst-(cnsen Chrlst-(cnsen of the West high school has a 'star of the first order. Funk was a I i member of the Panther track and field team in 1916 and is a middle distance star of the A l type. He has a record 'of 1 minutes and 46 seconds in the mile run and a mark of 2 minutes and 6 seconds In the half mile. This sen-son, sen-son, however. Christenscn, will noi doubt, use Funk in the 440 and SSO-yard SSO-yard events. I i Oliver Millard, former star distance i i runner of the Olympic club, holder of, the western five-mile record,, and at one time a runnerup for the national! title, will not be seen in action in the games at Pasadena. Millard has decided de-cided to forsake the spikes for the ciuv pie-life. -He-has a mark of 24 minutes, and 4S seconds in the five-mile run. J Hulton and O'Keffe, both sprinters of the Ogden high school are expected., to show a world of class in the state high school meet this spring. Both boys are fast and should be able to j bring home the bacon. , oo |