The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-28
VTHLETES START IN
At UTAH UNIVERSITY
Bunch of Huskies Shaping
Up for the Coming
Season.

PoouIor o-yrnnasIum class work started
al the university yesterday. For the past
week candidates for the track toom nave
been taking their daily workout. out yes
terday for tho first time was the great
mass OF the students turned loose In the
beautiful new gymnasium. FROM no" on
until June next the great hu9SIe-1i.
yeloping center will be working TO lts
fun capacity. making all studonte. re-
gardlcss OF their athletic likes ana ols-
likes, healthy young men.
Gym Glasses Organized.
Several gymnasium clnsees have been
organized Coach Maddox VIII give Il
special class for college students ana ar as
have n special class for medical students.
Assistant Physical Instructor MarsnaII,
who took "A special course IN gymnasium
work at Chautauqua last summer, is busy
arranging hours for his preparatory and
normal classes.
After tho regular classes were over
those athletlcally inclined students VINO
have been anxlously waiting for the open
Ing OF the gymnasium flooded In ana TOOK
possession. From then on the handDall
courts. three In number, were WORKED
to their limit the swinging rings were
operated. the weights pulled; the dunn
bells and Indian clubs swung and all the
new and novel athletic devices tried AT
) o'clock last evening close to one nun
dred students were subJecting Themselves
TO some kind OF athletic training. From
this squad Maddox certainly ought 70
SLIT some nHeIN mdteTldl LOT uS' Oh 'h'
track this spring
Good Men Working Out
Among those working out were men
built for all kinds OF events, or long
legged jumpers there was a herd AT
their head stood the giant Swapp, VINO
slSps the bar with his old-tme grace.
Hedges too shows up In promising
form, and these two veterans OF last
wears team are having no snap 10 hold
the laurels won. for among the fourteen
Yesterday were those who give promise
of taking equal rank with them. Judging
from swaps exhibition OF yesterday he
Will demolish his old record Tor the hleh
lump OF 5 feet g15 inches, which comes
within half an inch OF tying the State
record. held by Adams.
Harry Moore. captain OF the track team.
put I'm hard afternoon at the weights
and i'm PLAYING handball Moore cleared
up all the sprInters in the State last year
and Is working hard 10 repeat the trick
this year. Parke. Pitt and score OF the
other speedstcrs also did some good lin
bering-up work.
Football Men Cutting In.
Tub" Hennessy. Boise and number OF
football men OF the freshmen rank are
loosening up their Joints and muscles
with a view OF shifting the weights this
spring Steffenson and Carlson, two OF
last Years reliable weight men are not
at college this year. and new men must
be developed TO help Fred Bennion back
up this end OF the NarSityS line Boise
did somo little work with the weights last
year and has the making Of a good man,
Hcnnessy is comparatively an unknown
factor. but has a stocky build, and II
he can get the action ought TO be able 10
jugglc the weights I'm handy fashion.
Cross Country Running.
Nor was the athletic exercise confined
entirely TO the inside OF the gymnasium.
Some OF tho more enthusiastic spent a
few minutes In vigorous work outside.
of this number Scott and Taylor. couple
Of promising youngsters. became conspic-
uous by making the rounds of the cross
country circuit. run OF three good miles.
The course leads over the sage brush
hills. south from the university almost to
the State prison, then east In the direc-
tion OF Red Butte. and thence back In
triangular form TO the university The
boys found part OF the course deplorably
muddy and IT Is not probable that any
more trips will be made until Old Sol
pays a few lengthy visits with his scorch-
Ing face turned particularly In university
direction.