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Show H College Tracksters Prepare for 1920 Season I III Utah Aggies Expect ll To Take State Honots Jl In Annual Track Meet il Sayman Kerr and "Bunk" Brown Expected to Stage Nip and Tuck Battle in Middle Distance Runs; Coach I Roberts Confident IH W Collegiate track and field siars of ! Utah are now in training for the state It i intercollegiate games which will bo 1 I M leld at Provo, May 8, This year the I J 'I three schools, University of Utah, the I V111 -Assies and the Brigham oung IH I'Hhorsity will haVe exceptional ath- H letcs in the fray and old records estab- I Uabtd years ago are expected to go b. the boards. JH At the University of Utah, Coach mm 1 omniy Fitzpatrick will have an array c( stars that should be able to slime i H during the reason. Although the "U" H iave fevv veterans in' harness Salt H Lake fans expect the hilltoppers to H lake the state meet. On the other hand H Coach Romney of the Aggies can sec- B nothing but a victory tor his stars. HQ t'oaoh Roberts of irovo does not K boast of haing stars of the Larson, wf and Richar-ls type in harness, but hej ! It "! does boast of having a hiddle distance I? runner who bids fair to shatter the If state mile and half-mile records in ft 1 '"Bunk" Brown. Brown is regarded as iI j one of the greatest high school stars J h , ever developed in Utah and in his firsi ' J ..' college year is expected to be a star .Ji of. the first order. He shattered the Hfi state high school mile record at Provo I Q last season when he covered the mile W, J , in I minutes and db seconds, shatter-' I' ( iug the former record of '1 minutes 45 V ' 1-5 seconds made in 1913 by Anderson ' W. of B. Y. U. In his record trial in the I' , S80-yard run last year Brown covered j I the distance in 2 minutes 5 and 2-5 , lv . seconds, which is within 2-5 of a sec-, l , end of the slate mark of 2 minutes 5 j j seconds, made by McCabe of Salt Lake , I high in 1932. I Many Distance Stars. I I', WithsSayman Kerr, state interschol-. 1 astic champion in the mile and SSO-1 I ard event in harness at the '-'J," the j I Crimson backers expect their star to Ij I :!efeat Brown. Brown met defeat in ' I both events last year in the. stale : 11 j meet at the hands of Kerr, but show-!. ij j ed his class the following week at Pro- ' vo when he shattered the mile mark, i W ' The mile and half-mile events with-; .i Brown and Kerr and Jacques of th : br , ' Aggies in ncMon should be a thriller, i r i The state college record in the mile 1 V - I t 's 4 minutes 33 seconds, held by Tol-.'i , j, man of the B. Y. C. in 1912 The SSO-! I l ' yard record of 2 minutes flat is held i I : by Jamison of Utah, made in the same .' ' year. t While each of the three schools boast of a star in the middle distance eents, the other events will also see any number of bright lights in harness. har-ness. Stewart, Barnes, Wing, Romney and Uie are expected to shine in the short dii-tar.ee events for Utah, while Dee. Falck and Hansen are the best bets at the Aggie lair, Dec and Falck, both former Ogden High stars, are being backed to shine 'on the Aggie team. Both are all-round all-round athletes end will also oo rcpre- j senled on the baseball team. The sprint prospects of the "Y" is (unknown, but Coach Roberts avers i jtJ-.at his men will be in the running 1 1: js said that Gurr. a former "Y" 'sprint star, has returned to school. Gurr competed for Murdock Academy! i for a number of years and wr.s an Al sprint star. 1 Weight Stars. j "Frog" .McDonald and Clyde Wcrley ( are the strong candidates for field po-! sitions on the Aggie team. At the "U." Romney, Anderson. Smith. Snelgrove, 1 Stiefel and Goodrich arc the men who I will more than likely make the team, i Weign'tmen at the "Y" are scarce,) but as has been stated. Roach Roberts; a "mum" but expects his men to take ! honors. j In the state intercollegiate meet at I Provo the best bets in the siate in the , college class will vie for honors and some close competition is expected.. While the Aggies won the recent in-dooi in-dooi meet at Salt Lake from a fast field, they are the favorites to take honors. i The meet scheduled for Ogden, on j April 24, between the University of! Utah, the Ogden Athletic association,! Ogden High school and Weber Normal I College should give the tans a line on the strength of the "U" stars aa well' as a chance to eee Haymond, Mnrtin. Richards and Larson compete. The local tr:ck proposed for Mon-: roe park will be completed in due time j according to the city commissioners j iiud Ogdeuues will have an opportun-il opportun-il of watching nationally known stars Lake part. Haymond will be pitted ! against some-of the best sprinters In j Ihe .staff and as an added attraction j it is planned to have him run a spec- "til handicap 300-meter race against! ;l;rec- of the best sprinters on the field.! |