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Show John Benson Is Impressive In 440 According to a report Union's Coach Glen Allred brought back from Provo last weekend where he went to' enter a few Cougars in the 'Y' meet, a glorious glor-ious future in track is predicted . for Roosevelt's Johnny Benson, who is attending the Brigham Young University on a track ' scholarship. - - Last Saturday, John and another an-other 'Y' 440-yard man ran an exhibition with Art Barnard, Los Angeles Athletic Club Olympic Olym-pic hurdle star, and both John and his team mate beat the L.A. star. Barnard won second in the high hurdles in Olympic competition, and is now training the for 400-meter hurdle race, which was the reason he tried the exhibition 440-yd. race. The BYU track coach told Allred that John has been clocked clock-ed at 50.3 in the 440 already this year, and expects him to get down under 50 before (the season progresses too far. Time on the exhibition was 50.6, with 1 John taking a close second. |