Yale Letter,

Yale's track team has had its first tryouts of the year in its interclass games and the dual meet with Princeton. The former was, held with bad weather conditions, but Torrey did the 100 yard dash in 9 4-5 seconds and Parsons did the had mile in 2 minutes and a fraction of a second--a remarkable performance. The Princeton meet was a rather tame affair but interesting as being the first intercollegiate event since the Pennsylvania games. McLanahan broke the world's record in the pole vault and Captain Clapp easily won both hurdles. The time in all the track contests was good. De Witt was Princeton's best man, and he and Williams were the only Princeton men to get a first; Williams ran the mile in 4 minutes, 31 seconds.

The baseball team took a decided slump, losing to both Tufts and Andover with Mackay pitching in the first, and Jackson in the second game. The batting and fielding were miserable, Yale getting only three hits at Andover. It is only justice to the batteries to say that with any kind of hitting they would have won.

The University Dining Hall is soon to be put under the a la carte system as a trial. The old system seems to have been outgrown.

The work of the crew has not been especially encouraging. Scholarship conditions kept three strong starboard oars from the Annapolis race, so that Yale only won by half a length. The crew, which was composed of men who had never rowed in an intercollegiate race before, was as follows: stroke, Blagden; 7, Miller; 6, Fish; 5, Bloomer; 4, H. N. Scott; 3, Ferguson; 2, Whitney; bow, Phipps.

In the intercollegiate gun shoot, Harvard was an easy victor; no team in the contest threatened her lead at any time. The Yale team finished third.

Lydig Hoyt '06 won the annual punting contest on Friday. Points were given for accuracy, speed and distance.