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Show I By -L VARDEN ' "-XM Athletes of the various schools in Utah have said adieu to the athletic world until next fait when Old King Football will enter the sport world. The prld cramc will onen the fifty- first yoar of its career next fall and In Utah the grand old game should have a first rate season. Next fall such schools as Weber Normal L. D. S., Wasatch Academy and Snow academy and others will be entcrod In the race for the state championship In the grid game. With these schools in harness together to-gether with the old timers the game should add Increased interest. Coach Carl Peterson, the new mentor men-tor for the Ogden high school spent a few hours in Ogden yesterday prior to departing for Logan. "Stubby" "Stub-by" is the center fielder, on .the Logan Lo-gan baseball team in the Cache Valley Val-ley league and is a star of the first order. He says Ogden. will have) SOME teams next fall. j Coach Ott Romney of. the East ' High school will have practically tho same team in harness jiext fall that j represented "the Leopards on the I gridiron in 1910. Such stars as Smith, Papworth, Livingston, Henderson, Hen-derson, and others will' be on deck when the mentor makes his official call for stars. - Jack Dempsey says he is ready "to scrap. Tep, but wc wonder who, Jack will fight" before meeting -Carpentier and y,-hcrc? Fred Fulton in a statement, in an . eastern -paper says that Jack is. side. tracking, him. Perhaps Per-haps Fred Is right. w lllic Meehan. the fighting Gob, i3 now In the east .endeavpring to get a match with the champion. Meehan Mee-han held a conference with Jack Kearns at Chicago but all that Jack would say was: "Wc Intond to stage a battle July 5 at Benton Harbor and wo will consider you as an" opponent op-ponent for tho champion.'' Baseba'.! in Utah is taking a regular reg-ular toe hold in all parts of the state. In almost every town of any size this season the baseballers are on edge prepared for a great season. I f V Jack Taylor the heavyweight mat ' star passed through Ogden yesterday en route to Chicago where he will , ' tangle with Strangler Lewis during the latter nart of next week. Taylor recently wrestled a two-hour draw ' ''-, with Ad Santel at San Francisco. Mike Tokel, middleweight mat champion of the world, and well known to Ogden fans, Is spending his lelsuro hours on his ranch In the Jackson Holo country. Mike is like a ground hog, he only, comes out at certain periods of the year. In a five-mile race staged at Los v Angeles last Monday, Ted Johnson and Melvin Frecbairn, both Utahns finished first and second. . Johnson will wear the colors of the Los Angeles An-geles A. C. in the Olympic trials at Pasadena. His time in tho recent . race was 26 minutes 12 seconds. M To the sporting editor: Who. holds the world's record In the high jump. where and when made'.' Frank Carlson. Carl-son. ' 1 . r Answer Clinton Larson of the Og- u-den u-den A. A. in a meet staced at Provo in July 1316 made a leap of 6 feet 7 ' tvr' and -7-S inches. .The ' meet was sane- '' . M tioned by the Amateur Athletic union un-ion of - the. United" States and that ma'rlc. still stands.. . The former record rec-ord jyas ': 6 feet' 7 'inches, made in 1011 at San -Francisco by Eddie Bee-son. Bee-son. Weber Normal college students will hold -their annual field day exercises v at the school next Thursday afternoon. after-noon. The entire program is under of the school and many 'features will no doubt bo on the card. Track and field . events of all., natures na-tures will be on the mantle with the various classes out after honors. - Alma Richards, star all-around athlote of tho Ogden A. A. and American champion In the all-around HB events In 1315, will leavo within a few days for Los Angeles where he will complete his training for the Olympic team. JH |