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Show Mm urn m GET J! j Quarter Mile Track Will Be Constructed at New Baseball Park With the ba.sketbr.il season over, I (rack and field and baseball squads of Ihe Ogden high school and Weber I normal college are limbering up in preparation for the coming season Al though several of the shining lights! of the baseball and track squads of these two schools have graduated ihe mentors expect lo have nitty ma-; machines In the field. Due to Die fact that the Ogden dl -ion track. and field meet will be staged in Ogden May 5 the cinder game La given added encouragement locally and every indication points toward to-ward the construction of a lirt class 1 rn ilr TRACKS TO BE BUILT Members of the city commission including in-cluding (-omrnlsf loner Arthur Larsen, have agreed lo lend whatever assistance assist-ance possible In securing a lirst class 440-yard track lor ihe trackstcrs and in the immediate future it Is planned lo have students from both Weber and Ogden high aid In the closing details de-tails Supt. W. Karl Hopkins of the Ogden city schools Is an ardent boost-er boost-er lor track and field athletics as is also Joel E. Ricks, principal of We ber normal and with these men brick ot Ihe plan the track men are sure to secure a first class field to perform on. The present plans call for a 440 yard track with two curves to be located In the interior of he present baseball park at Lorln Farr park Under the plans It is definitely understood that the track will not in any way inter fore with the baseball park. SURVEY FIELD. The city commissioners have agreed to survey the field and to aid in plac ing the cinders In perfect position ! t inders will b obtained from the local lo-cal railroads and with the male students stu-dents lending their air Ogden Is prom- : ised a keen track. In past years the athletes who love I mis son oi amicus competition nave, not had suitable quarters for practice or for staging meets, a fact, which has hindered the upbuilding of the' game. Prospects at both schools in track appear blight and with the first break of Ihe weather squads at both schools will be out daily in preparation fori dual, division and state meets w t a I |