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 Mat Stars Practice For Far Western Meet

 
     
  That man Grattan is shedding the tears again. Not content to rest even one day upon his team's victory over University of California, Grattan, ever the slave driver, drilled his charges harder than ever Monday night in preparation for the Far Western AAU meet to be held Saturday at the Oakland YMCA. It's might hard to believe but nevertheless Mr. Gene is very much worried over his team's chances this week.

"Everything points to us as the winner," says Gene, "but here is the joker. My boys are going to have to compete against each other and therein lies the rub. Some of my best men who could be scoring points by defeating an outsider will be beaten by their own team mates. I don't like the idea but it just works out that way in tournaments of this type. Consequently, there is a chance that some other college will amass more points than us."

And so that his why Grattan goes about his work with his chin down. He plans to enter two teams in the championship meet. Besides the regular varsity men who took the growl out of the Bear, Gene is entering the freshman squad. Thus the local contingent will be well represented.

San Jose assumes the role of defending champs for the meet. Last year quite a few Spartans came back with gold medals signifying first place while a goodly number copped silver medals. This year there is every reason to believe that a ditto act can be accomplished, but Grattan is worrying just the same. And what are you going to do with a guy like that?
 
     
 

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