Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-12 | Page 11 | East-West Distance Classic Held Today

:US1-WESWIKF CLASSIC HELD TODAY I Runners From Every Nook of State Will Face Starter. After being postponed twice on account ac-count of the we.atb.er god the East to West high school four-mile jaunt is being be-ing staged In Salt Lake today. Ogden will have one representative Jn the class Griffon the star who copped tho three-mile cross country run at the school some time ago. He is a distance man of considerable repute. The raco was first held in March, 1916, with Al Warden the winner over a field of more than ono hundred, ms time was 22 minutes ..at. The record is tho target for the runners today and with. Ideal weather conditions tue mark is expected to be shattered. Hogan of the West igh scuool, winner win-ner of tho mile and half-inilo jaunts in the state moot at Provo last week, and Kuinp of .bast High are expected to stago a pretty battle. Griffon of Ogden Is also expected to be heard from. More than 100 runners will face the starter.