Show MUSCLED BRONZE COAST STAR SURPRISES SURPlUSES EASTERN COACHES if f. f E 34 w. w He HeL Looms q s as s Round All d O Olympic Athlete thiet 1 li J West Outstrip Outstripping ping East Keep Keep your eyes on n the the West It ItIs ItIs' ItIs IIii Is Is' going to figure and figure big bg CAZ A In the final tryouts for tire the United 4 i g Stat States s Olympic team at the Harvard Harvard Har Har- j vard yard stadium next month The country's athletic strength is shifting shift F ing westward The showing made by the University of California and Stanford university cracks In Eastern meets Is convincing The strength of the far West athletes Is a somehow sturdier sturdier-a a more dashIng dash dash- f I. I f Ing brand of mettle California California- a- a ap p r J O Americas America's s playground playground affords affords an outdoor life the year round and S the work of clever coaches Is I. getting getting get get- e t Pt ting results Former United States t L in Olympic teams have showed allowed almost a complete dearth of Western men vt But right now flow It seems that they I will predominate the first string squad which will be selected to l I carry the Stars and Stripes at Ant I In n Au August g I j 4 3 I By Dean Snyder When Jack Merchant University of f California athlete came out or the West to meet the Eastern c cracks acks he be got a new title He lie came heralded as California's greatest greatest greatest great great- est all round star But no sooner had Lawson Robertson Penn coach set eyes on the bronze muscles muscles mus mus- cles des of the Golden Gate youth than he remarked TARZAN he he Is my Idea of Tar Tar- I zan Merchants Merchant's muscles res resemble he heavy y I coils of ot rope when he is in action When he strains at the grips of the sixteen-pound sixteen hammer the ev event t tit t in which he excels the muscles of his arms arris and legs stand out in great tawn tawny knots Excels With Hammer At the Intercollegiate track championshIp championship championship champion champion- ship event held in Philadelphia Merchant Merchant Merchant Mer Mer- chant was unable to snow to his best advantage Having his heart set sel on breaking a a. few records he overtaxed himself in the tile trials and took off oCt his edge for the tile finals Handicapped b by torn ligaments In his right leg he easily distanced the field In Inthe inthe the ha hammer mer throw His fling was I I feet 2 Inches He has done around feet In coast meets this tilis spring I Trainers believe that with a littlemore lIttlemore little littlemore more coaching he will equal the present present pres pres- ent standing record of feet 10 Inches made by Bailey of Maine In 1915 Jn u the broad jump the Californian has done over 23 feet and in the tile dashes he is very fast He reels off the century in 10 seconds flat Also he is the coasts coast's best bes javelin caster Doesn't Look Big Mer Merchant hant Isn't as big as M he lIe looks Ills His weight varies around the pound mark After a strenuous day on the field he sometimes loses three or four pounds As to training he hasn't any set code to go by Jack simply works hard and nature has given him the muscles to tomake tomake tomake make him excel G Kirby Olympic head be believes believes be be- Merchant is Js a certainty f for r the United States Antwerp team and Coach Robertson thinks the Tarzan that has lIes Is the best all all' round athlete come to light this season And these two fellows ought to know timber when they give Ive It the once over |