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Show Cromwell's Trojans Seen As Track Champs Again By ROBERT MTERS LOS ANGELES, April 1 (AP) By way of idle announcement, the amazing Dean Bartlett Cromwell and the mighty Trojans of the University of Southern California will have a track and field team in action again around the country this year. I The amaxing Mr. Cromwell, now embarking on his thirty-first year! as track coach at U. S. C. doesn't know exactly howl strong his 1939 aggregation ag-gregation will be,' but, pressed for a word . or two on; the outlook, he obliged with a few, thousand. Consid-arably Consid-arably boilsdi down, the dean I its ted: "I think i we'll have a pretty fair team this, year." The old boy was having his little 1 Kks with these words, because he 'f last six I. C. A. A. A. A. meets entered, en-tered, and the list of Olympic champions cham-pions and world record smashers is almost too long to recite at one time. And when the N. C. A. A. meet is held in Los Angeles June 16-17, and the L C. 4-A goes on at Randall's Ran-dall's Island in New York May 26-27. Southern California will be around with a strong defending outfit Cromwell lost several stars from but year's national championship team, but he's been losing stars most every year and bobbing right back with star replacements, so be isn't worried. As a nucleus, the squad haa one of the best miters in ths country in Louie Zamperlnl. ths slim Italian boy who defeated Chuck Fenske In the N. C A. A. last year in Milwaukee; Mil-waukee; Oklahoma Bob Peoples, who broke the American "native" Javelin throw record two weeks ago with a toss of 234 feet 1 inches, and Loring (Bud) Day, co-captain co-captain and pole vaulter, who did 14 feet T inches last year and bids fair to Improve the mark this season. Knows aa well as Dean Cromwell the next one that Troy's Cardinal and Gold will be battling It out In the national championships this summer, upholding a record that is nothing short of astonishing. Cromwell-guided teams of U. 8. C havs won ths last four N. C. A. A., championships and taken a total of aeven of the 11 N. C. A. A. meets entered; they have won the 4 |