Reprint of a (local? Glendale News- Press?) newspaper article - written sometime in March/April 1927:

GLENDALE IS PROUD OF HER STAR SPRINTERS
Two boys of the Glendale Union High school district, Frank Wykoff and Russell Slocum, Saturday afternoon carved a niche in the athletic hall of fame. At the same time these two lads, in company with many others, proved that the young man of today, who uses proper care in his living, possesses a better functioning human machine than at any other time in history.

Sport followers do not have to remember many years back to recall the day when 10 seconds was considered the ultimate speed for the 100 yard dash. Such flyers as Charley Paddock, Charley Borah and others have proved that faster races could be run. Now come two lads from the same high school who show that high school boys are capable of doing practically as well as their elder and more highly trained. brothers.

Wykoff and Slocum have both run their sprinting races faster this year than any other high school man has ever run them. They have broken every meet record to date. Wykoff has been timed several times, by many different timers with varied watches, in the unbelievable time of nine and on half seconds. This is equal to the world's record. Unfortunately, three have always been one or two watches with slower time recorded in the races and Wykoff has not been given the record time. However, at the present, he holds the unofficial world's record in both the 100 and 220 yard dashes, and his teammate, Slocum , is just one yard slower in each race.