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Show I Gus Becker Expected to Make American Trap Team 1 EDENGUHSTAR I '.'Becker's Work in the East At-. At-. tracts Attention of the Wise Owl. Ogden will bo represented at the . Olympic games by four crack track and field athletes If the athletes are successful suc-cessful in the trials in this country. These men are expected to bring honors, hon-ors, galore to 'Ogden In their lines of sport. While the tnicksters arc having hav-ing their inning, the stars of the trap ! arise and announce that one of their i number "will no doubt make the Ameri can team and represent Ogden in the Olympic games in that branch of the ' Gus Becker, well-known business man of Ogden, a sport from every an-rl an-rl . gle and one of the be8t trap sho'ot-j sho'ot-j ers in the entire country, looms as one of the best bets in the United States to make the American team. Becker has been winning contests galore in all sections of the country and only recently won honors in the ' east In two open meets. He is rated by professionals ac one of the best In the game and according to some of the dopesters Gus will no doubt win a position po-sition on the team. In fact, it is a 100-to-l shot that the Ogden man will be on deck when the teams embark for Antwerp. The pick of the nation In track and field, hockey skating, fencing, boxing, ' shooting, and in fact every phase of sport will wear the shield of Uncle Sam in the coming tilts and if Becker accepts the invitation which will soon be bestowed on hlni, Ogden will have five representatives on the gala team, which in comparison with other cities and states to population will no doubt glye Ogden the first honors. "Competition in track and field this season for the Olympic team will possibly pos-sibly be keener than ever before and the same may be said of other branches bran-ches of sport. jti - ' But with it all the dopesters are anxiously awaiting the final returns and until that lim6'flie fans must' hold steady In their respective places lest the boat rock In the wrong direction. The live wires say that five men will represent Ogden and unless we all miss our guess that number is absolutely abso-lutely correct. |