Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-11
CARDINALS LIKELY
TO PRESS TROJANS
Powerful PaIo Alto Team Is
Menace to Southern Cali
fornia Reign.
BY FRANCIS ]. POWERS.

"HERE are murmurs along the
the Pacific Coast that South
4 ern California will not have
things quite so much its own
way on the track this year. The
I. C. A. A. A. A. and National Col
legiate champions again will be
represented by powerful COM
bination of track and field stars,
but Robert Louis Templeton is
making magic at Leland Stanford
and the Cardinals are expected
to give the Trojans a rough battle
all the way through the Pacific
Coast, National Collegiate and I.
c. A. A. A. A. championships.
Winter trials at Palo Alto indicate
that Stanford is going to be stronger in
several track events than last year. Abe
Hables has stepped the quarter mile in
40 is and has been beating Ben East
man rather often. Abe's brother, Ike,
also is displaying a lot of talent, and
with the normal amount of improve
ment Stanford expects the HableS boys
to more than hold their own.
Smith Hurdling Well.
Podge Smith, the Cardinals star
hurdler, is hopping the high timbers in
.151-5 and the lows in even .25, and
there are two or three other fair bur-
dlers on the squad. Aebersold is expect
ed to be a find in the tWo-mile event
and Templeton is well satisfied with his
early season efforts.
Bobby Jones not the golfer - has
been flinging the discus well over $50
feet and is likely to give Bob Hall, the
Southern California weight man, real
battle once the season gets under way.
Stanford lost Harlow Rothert and Eric
Krenz, its great shot and discus men of
1880, through graduation, but Temple
ton has a knack of always producing
good weight toSSerS. Right now there
are three promising shot putters on the
Cardinal squad and more will be said
of them in the future.
Southern California will have most of
its 1880 point winners back in harness.
The loss of Teddy Welsh In the high
hurdles was no light blow to Coach
Dean Cromwell, but perhaps he can get
along.
WykOR in Trim Again.
Frank Wykoff, the fastest human"
who Travelled the century in g 2-5 in
the national collegiates, is showing no
i'll effects Of the ankle injury sustained
last Summer and will be the Trojans'
reliance in the sprints. Vic Williams,
440-yard A. A. q. champion; Bill Carls,
winner of the low hurdles in the ]. c..
A. A. A. A. games; Jim Stewart. N. G.
A. high Jump champion, and Cliff Hal
stead, the California State mile champ,
all are on the Southern California squad
and form the nucleus of a team that
will take a lot of beating.
The Trojans' most obvious weakness
Is in the high hurdles. With Welsh
out they have no one who can top the
bars in Is seconds. Little strength can
be found in the pole vault and two
mile events, but in all of the others
Southern California is well equipped.
Cromwell expects to use WykoH only
In the century when the TrojanS come
East for the two big meets, but will
work him in the 220 during the Cali
fornia season.
Other Good Trojan Sprinters.
The Trojans have some other good
sprinters in Milt Mauer, Howard Said
and 'Red" Guyer, all Of whom are
capable of 10 seconds or better, and
from one Of the three may develop an
other real star.
AT this distance it would seem that
East and Middlewest have little chance
to stop either Southern California or
Stanford in the intercollegiate or ma
tionaL The supply of track stars on
the Pacific Coast apparently Is mex
llaustible and Templeton and Cromwell
are a pair who can get everything out
of the material at their disposal.