Evening star., 1927-12-24
SEEN AS WINNERS
OVER WEST TEAMS.
Both Contests Next Monday
Offer Difficult Tasks to
Pick FaVoritesA

n IEW YORK, ne",mhrr e4.--li
hooks as though the West were
VI pulling an authorized West
i Point on the East in the foot
ha]l game between The two see
ticSS which viii he STAGED sndcr the
auspices of the Mystic shrine at the
k"zar stadium in san Francisco.
Monday afternoon.
So far as the writer knowS. the team
which Andy Kerr recruited in the
East contains none hut dnderSr adu-
a'CS. whereas Eah ltCllingherrN :
Western outfit has several alumni. in
c'0dinS Morton kaer, former tni-
TerSity of southern California star;
Griffin and Bell former california
PLAYERS, and last. hut by no means
least. Cowhov kutSCh
When Nick kutSch. the stnCkNard
lariat throwar. CT temperamen'al at
the University Of Iowa where his ca
reer. both scholastic and athletic.
was somewhat spot'N--he migrated
from Iowa CITY disappearing com
plttcly from the Western conference
spotlight.
Cuts Big Swath
Like most good Iowans. il appears.
kutSch went In California. where he
cut a great swath this season as
hack on the Olympic Athletic Club
eleven. Playing in the backfeld Of
Hollingherry Western team he will
have a chance to hask once more in
the national sunlight.
The hackfield Of this eleven is Ger.
tain 10 be good. what with Kutsch
and Meeker Of Washington State al
ternating al quarter: kaer and Joel
Hunt of Texas 4 4 NJ. at the halves
and Pat Wilson. the gigantic liuskie.
at fun. 1t will have TO he extremely
good, however. 10 show an edge over
ANDY kerr.s hackfield array. consist
ing of Caldwell. Yale: .Ioestinc. Mime
sofa: Amos. Washington and Jeffer-
son. and PresneIl, Nebraska.
kutsch. by the way. is said 10 have
announced that next year he is going
to return to Iowa for more intereo-
iesiate foot hall. All of which sug-
Cests an ambitious, not 10 say a SAN
Eulne. Young man.
Just for n flyer. the writer picks the
East 70 win Mondays game his opin-
inn hein- hasnd chiefly on the potency
ce as powerful and fast and versatile
a hackfield as ever was assembled on
a gridiron.
Choice Is Not Easy.
That game in Los Angeles Monday
between thel All-South and All-Pacitic
Coast seems no more difficult 10 fore.
cast. Dixie has never had more fine
foot hail players than this year and
with the exception of Shiver and
Nash Of Georgia. the best that the
land below the Smith and Wesson"
line. as old Bill keeler puts it. can
produce viii he in the Southland
lineup.
The Pacific Coast team, like the
Southern outfit. will have no alumni
PLAYERS, although with Stanford and
California players restrained from mar.
ficipa'ion because IF forthcoming
games against Pittsburgh and Penn.
syiFania. respectively. il is certain
that the greatest strength Of the
Golden slope cannot be represented
sEainSf the stars whom Coaches Wal
lace Wade, Bill Alexander and Dan
McGugin have piloted over the
Rockies and the Sierrss. This being
SO. the writer looks for victory for
the South
With the four elevens above ro.
1efred TO hard at practice and the
pennsylvania and California eleyens
working out at Berkeley: with Stan.
iord going through it's PAGES at paIo
Alto in preparation for the battle
with Pittsburgh at the Rose Bowl
IN Pasadena on January .. foot bali
has never boiled so merrily on the
West Coast