The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-26
Stanford Is Favorite to
Win National Track Title
Led by Mighty Eric krenz
Who Set New Records in
Shot Put and Discus, West
Coast Varsity Will Probably
Establish New Inter-cOllegi.
ate Point. Total Mark
BY ALLAN J. GOULD
ASSOCIATED Press Sports EditOr)

ASSOCIATED Press Sports Editor)
Cambridge, Mass, May 26.-It's
an old saying with the Yankees that
"As Ruth goes, so goes the team"
Eric Krenz, 22-year-old Babe
Ruth Of track and field sports,
seems to WELD a similar influence
upon Leland Stanford's mighty
team, favorite today to romp off
with the fifty-second intercollegiate
A. A. A. A. championships for the
second straight year and take the
historic title back to the Pacific
coast for the seventh time in eight
season.
Eric, the curly-haired sophomore
who losses the 16-pound shot and
discus around with the same reck-
less abandon that Ruth hits home
runs, was in record-breaking form
in yesterdays trials, from the mo.
!! ment he stepped out on the Harvard
turf to hurl the shot to new record
Of SO feet / inch until, few hours
later he wound up q busy day By
tossing the discuss new record
distance Of 154 feet, II inches.
"As Krenz goes, so goes Stan
ford"
Easy Victory Expected
Eric sets the pace but he isn'
the whole team, by any means
Twelve and possibly thirteen other:
stood ready to contribute to Stan
ford's score, which experts expected
to produce a one-sided victory to-
the Cardinals as we'll as to estab
| lish the highest point total in a
least 10 years, if not 80 years.
]. seemed probable to observer
. that Stanford, in spite of keen oppo
sition from Yale, Southern Califor
MIA, Harvard and Cornell, woul
equal or surpass the Appoint MOD
ern mark, set by Cornell in l9l
. and possibly threaten the ali-tim
} hieh-mark Of 81 points, registere
!. BY Pennsylvania in 1899.
Yale, the casts only hope and
e slim one, surprised even its arder
e supporters by sticking close to Star
e ford in the qualifying competitio
yesterday, which cut the entry Ii,
6 Of some 500 performers down to IL
I, in 10 of the Is championship event
9 The Cardinals margin over the Ell
< was only Is to IL in the number
! oualifiers but the proportion Of SEQ
o ing power embodied in the Stanfol
group was much higher than tn
! in the blue brigade. There was
!, wider gap between Stanford's SEQ
:: :. inr machine and other outstandil
- squads, such as those representa-
y Cornell, Harvard and Southern "a
- = iornia, each of which qualified Gig
# men yesterday.
ID Three Marks Fall
$. Three championship meet recor
of were shattered in the preliminari.
~ two Of them by Krenz and a thi
er bv Al Bates Of Penn State with
os broad jump Of "a feet, 10 :
Or inches. These as well as 9th
v existing marks faced further alta
in the finals, scheduled to start Il
d. Afternoon at 2:SO o'clock, caste
ne daylight time.
er Yale pinned its faith in Sal
aas Carr, famous pole vaulter, to rel
ne the challenge Of two eastern riva
y. Lee Barnes Of Southern Californ
nt present worlds record-holder, q
l1 Ward Edmonds, slim Stanford q
ne In the quarter-imle, another. pr
nectiye thriller, the Ellis seain !
~ forward an eastern hope In Laun
q, ~ lot Ross, who was kept out OF
-, a. 22O especially to conserve his en-
81 ries for the race with Bud Spene
=. Stanford captain. and Ray b
!. butt. Syracuse flier.