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Show I i A Una Richards Expects to Lower Records at Bis Meet I I j Ogden A. A. Athlete - Out After New Marks I I in Field Exhibitions -1 First Class Competition Promised in Track Meet Here on ji Monday; Richards Expects to Shatter H 2M Fnur State Records !i 1 jl Alma Richards, former American all- M around champion and rated as one of , America's greatest track and field j stars, expects to shatter at least four 1-3 state records In the big track and field n meet at Lorin Farr Park Monday af- ff ternoon. Richards is one of four men 51 who will' wear the colors of Ogden In Iff the Olympic meet and is a world i beater. . Monday afternoon the star expects 'i to shatter the present state record In the discus throw, javelin throw, high , - Jump and broad jump. Richards is the present holder of the high Jump rec- li ord and also of the broad Jump record. fS However, the elongated athlete Is outj lS to set new marks. I llS jjj One of the features of the meet will 3 m ho the high Jump in which Larson and j IE V Richards will take part. Both men lm n,n.A mii-i-e -.r hoftpr tlmn 6 feet 5 i I I I Inches in this event and the conipotl- js. tion should be keen. Richards won f the aerial event in the games at Stock- f holm in 1912 as a member of the Am- J erlcan team and holds the present $ Olympic record at 6 feet 4 inches. The state record stands at feet 3 inches, a With the Aggies, Utah, Ogden High ,f school. Weber Normal, West and East High school aggregations and all first-place first-place winners in the high school tour- S ney at Provo Saturday entered in the 1 meet here Monday, a record crowd J should be on hand. (I Coach Clarence Douglas of the Tig- Jl ers last night entered the following 2 men in the events named 100-yard 1 dash O'Keefe, Hutton; 220-yard dash 1 Hutton, Veasy; 440-yard run 0'- Keefe, PIngree, Hutton, Griffen, Veasy; Vea-sy; mile run Williams, Griffen; 880-yard 880-yard run Kerr, Griffen; relay Hutton, Hut-ton, O'Keefe, Richards, Veasy or Pin-gree; Pin-gree; shot-put Richards, Williams; discus throw Williams, Griffen; javelinWilliams; jave-linWilliams; high Jump Pingreo and Veasy; broad jump Veasy and PingTee; polo vault Richards. Lofgreen and Terry of Weber Normal Nor-mal will be entered in the three-mile run. Jack Croft of Weber will be entered en-tered in the discus throw. Funk. Hagan, Everett, Western, Frankie and Smith of the West High will all be entered. From tho East High, Ozzie Smith, Brady, Jewkes. Kump, Martin and Wilson will be entered. en-tered. The entries from the other high schools will not be made known until after the state interscholastlc meet. With the class of the high school men In tho state in harness as well as the best In the colleges and the Ogden A. A. tho meet should be by far the greatest ever held In this state. Tho four "super-athletes" Hay-mond, Hay-mond, Martin, Richards and Larson will address the students of the Ogden High school and Weber Normal college col-lege Monday morning prior to the staging stag-ing of the meet The hour of the as sembly at the Weber Normal will be 11:20 o'clock. At the Ogden High school the hour for the appearance of iho men will be announced later. Homer Chrlstensen, starter, will send the men on their way in the first event promptly at 3 o'clock. Specials from Logan and Salt Lakevill cany scores of fans who vU.UrtBheir f'rst chance to see the fourftrfoj'n the same meet. Uflv |