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Show V California "U" Will Enter Classy Athletes In Trials Blue And Gold To I Present First Rate I - Team At Pasadena I "Pesky" Sprott Expected to Romp Home a Winner in B5j3i Mile and Half Mile Events ; Merchant Aspires for Honors to the Broad Jump ; California I Tracksters to Compete in East That the University of California will present a first rate team in the western trials for the Olympic team at Pasadena next month Is almost a certainly, according- to Burns Ellison, California student who passed through Ogden yesterday en routo to his home at Denver. The Blue and Gold warriors have several mon on' deck who will n doubt make history for the school In the coming meet and also In the meet scheduled at Ann Arbor, Mich., for the qar! part of June. The work of "Pesky" Sprott, mUr and half-mller of the school, has been the cause of no end of chatter tho school campus. Sprott has be-?u winning win-ning the two events . In all of the school meets on the coast anl also in other competition, ire hia a mark of better than A.2& in thj nv'c and 1,5'J in me nait-miie. In the meet against tho University of Illinois Sprott was defeated in. the mlle event but came back in the 80 and showed his heels to the field, tt was his first defeat of the season, lie is 1)cing backed to show a world of class in the coming games' and will no doubt he one of the best bets for the University of California. . "Brick" Mullcr, former San Diego high school star, should cause trouble in the aerial event for Larson and Richards of the Ogden A. A. Mullor although .only a first year man, has been clearing tho bar at 6 fcet3 And better in westorn college competition. He Is regarded as one of the finds of th west In the aerial event. Johnny Merchant, is some broad jumper. In one of ,the recent meets on the coast the star aviated over the H take-off mark at 23 feet 11 Inches. H This Is a new record for coast teams. IH He is consistent and Is regarded "fts IH one of the best men in America In ihat tvn;. He is one of the greatest H grid stars on the coast and will be H pitted at end when Utah vies with tho jH western stars next fall. IH Houdrickson is a star in tho furlong H and -440 yard events. He has been H one of the mainstays of tho Callforrifa H team In these two events and will b'e H one of the men to represent the sclro'Dl H in the eastern meet. IH Captain Poterson Is one of the b&tt H pole vaulters In the west and has a jH mark of bettor than 12 feet 6 inches H in this event. He will lead his men H against the uest in the Big Ten coil- IH ference next month. IH Majors In the weights is the clas IH of the const in the weights. He has -been heaving the javelin and dischjs H out' of the lots on tho coast, according H to Ellison, and will bear watching- 4n H the coming games. H Coach Walter Chrlstio of the school Is slated to be one of the trainers for i the American team that will Journqy to the finals at Antwerp. Christie ts a former Princeton man and has bcon at the helm of track- athletics" at tho California school for the past twenty J years. He is recognized as one of Am- fl erica's greatest track and field H coaches. H |