TO LAUNCH SPRING TRACK SEASON AT 3 THIS AFTERNOON

The spring track season will begin this afternoon with the initial practice for both University and Freshman squads. The members of the University squad will report at 3 o'clock in the Locker Building, but the time of the Freshman meeting has been postponed until 4.45 o'clock on account of an hour examination in German A. All men should report at the times stipulated, dressed and ready for the practice which will be held immediately after the meetings.

Four men will talk briefly to the University candidates. Captain J. F. Brown '22 will emphasize the necessity of high grades in studies as one element in the building up of a winning team; Dr. D. C. Parmenter '13 will speak on various phases of training; Mr. W. A. Barron '14, former captain of the University track team and at present a member of the Graduate Advisory Committee, will comment on other requisites of success. Coach Bingham, the final speaker, will outline plans for daily practice and the season as a whole. He will also explain in detail the various ways in which it is hoped the season may appeal to those men who a fail to compete in the regular meets. Thus there will be an Interdormitory meet for Freshmen, a spring handicap met for all track aspirants as well as competitions, in individual events such as Coach Mikkola has been holding with the javelin and discus. There are also races for certain special trophies such as the Dodge cup, the Wells cup, and the Mansfield cup which will be held at the annual spring meet.

Sophomores are still eligible to enter the competition for second assistant manager if they report at the H. A. A. at 8.30 o'clock this morning.

The spring track Season begins today. The success of the team depends this year as it does every year on the number of men who make up the squad. There are opportunities in 15 events for any man who will work with a spirit of determination regardless of whether he has had previous track experience. Let us have the largest University and Freshman squads in the history of Harvard today. W. J. Bingham '16, Coach.   J. F. Brown '22, Captain.   H. S. P. Rowe '29, Manager.

With the practice this afternoon Coach Bingham will begin anew his task of holding a successful team from a squad that has a large share of good athletes but few star performers. The immediate objective will be the spring trip begin ning on April 15 during which the team will meet the University of Virginia and the Naval Academy t Annapolis for the first time in the history of track at the University. Favorable weather has enabled Coach Bingham to start the spring season a week ahead of the time he had anticipated; an appreciable advantage with the first meet a barn three weeks away.

Although the University seems to be best represented in the sprints, the hurdles, the mile and the hammer throw; the strength is, on the whole evenly distributed. C. H. Wansker '23 stands out as the leading man in the 100-yard dash, with Vinton Chapin '23 and J. E. Merrill '24, captain of last year's Freshman team, as his running mates; while in the 220-yard sprint, J. D. Chase '22 is the fastest of the University entries. In the quarter mile both Bayard Wharton '22 and Richard Chute '22, who placed first and second respectively in the Yale meet last spring, are expected to be available with J. E. Kennedy '23, captain of his Freshman team two years ago and H. W. Howe '22 to complete a quartet of promising men.

Mile Crimson's Strong Event

In the half mile J. A. McCarthy '22, J. W. Quinn '23, and W. C. Bennett '23 have shown ability during the recent indoor season. McCarthy especially has done good work as a member of the relay team in the meets this winter. The mile race is considered a strong event for the Crimson, largely due to the presence of J. W. Burke '23, whose running in the winter season, especially at the Knights of Columbus games, gave promise of his being classed with the fastest runners of New England colleges. W. F. Eaton '23, another member of this year's relay quartet, will be Burke's running mate in the mile. In the two mile the University's strongest runners are H. M. Mahon '23, A. L. Coburn Jr. '24, and William Duane Jr. '23. Mahon won second place against Yale last year.

By his work last spring and this winter. R. S Whitney Jr. '22 has stamped himself as the Crimson's fastest entry in both the 120-yard high and the 220-yard low hurdles. C. R. Hauers '23 has demonstrated ability in the former event that has at times brought him to the tape ahead of Whitney, while R. W. Fitts '23 will run with Whitney over the low hurdles. The work of these three men should make the hurdling events certain point-winners for the Crimson this spring.

Captain Brown Sure Point-winner

The field events which as last year will be in charge of Coach Farrell, present on the whole a less favorable prospect than the running events. In the hammer throw, however, Captain J. F. Brown '22 should contribute five points to the points to the University's total in the majority of meets. By his work last year with his victory against the combined Oxford-Cambridge team as the climax, as well s by his record this year, ending with his recent victory in the indoor Intercollegiate he stands as the best weight thrower in the East. He will be supported by S. B. Andrew '23 and L. K. Marshall '22, both of whom have shown a marked improvement during the winter season. Captain Brown is also the leading University entry in the shot-put, though here his superiority over Benoni Lock wood Jr. '22 and G. A., Saxton '22 is not as clear cut as over the other Crimson entries in the hammer throw. Malcolm Morse '24 is the best high jumper with A. K. Murray '23, the only other University member who can be looked upon as capable of scoring points in the meets this year. In the broad-jump as in the sprints, Percy Jenkins '24 will be among the strongest entries if it is possible for him to arrange his duties with the baseball team in such a way as to allow him to compete on the track. J. E. Merrill '24 and C. J. Hemlin '24 are two other promising jumpers though it is doubtful if either can equal Jenkins.

Two new events this year are the javelin and discus throws, in which the University has a distinct advantage due to the presence of a separate coach for these events, Mr. Jakko Miccola, a former Finnish athlete. It is with an aim to secure more candidates that Coach Mikkola is conducting a series of informal competitions. As a result of these contests, R. M. Greenidge '24, H. C. Janin '22, and Malcolm Morse '24 have proved their superiority in the javelin throw while C. C. Carpenter '24 has been attaining the best results with the discus.

The winter track season this year could hardly be classed as a complete success inasmuch as the University was forced to trail behind Cornell in the triangular meet on February 25, and to content itself with seventh place in the intercollegiate meet at New York. The relay teams, too, had a mediocre season, but the work of one or two individuals such s Brown and Burke gave the Crimson some consolation for the failure to win all the intercollegiate contests.

In the first meet of the year, the University entered a relay team and three other men in the Millrose Athletic Association games in New York City on February 1. The relay team managed to secure a second place, losing only to Princeton, while R. S. Whitney '22 won first place in the 50-yard hurdles with the fast time of 6 4-5 seconds. The next best came in the B. A. A. games in Boston on February 6, where the University lost both a short and long relay race against M. I. T. and Yale respectively, while the Freshmen were defeated by the Eli yearlings. Here again the work of Whitney was the feature from the Crimson point of view. On Washington's Birthday, at the American Legion Games, J. W. Burke '23 ran second to Captain Driscoll of Boston College, Losing by a scant two yards in the Colonel Garston 600-yard special run, while J. A. McCarthy '22 also secured a second place in the half-mile run.

Three days later at the triangular meet in Mechanics Hall, the Crimson team was able to beat Dartmouth, but succumbed to the all round ability of Cornell's well balanced team. Captain Brown captured first place in the 35-pound weight throw; Burke won the mile race; while Wansker was able to earn five points with a hard fought victory in the 40-yard dash.

On March 4 at the Knights of Columbus games in Boston, the Crimson relay team was able again to defeat a Dartmouth team, largely due to the running of Burke. In the indoor Intercollegiate in New York a week later, however, the Crimson team failed to live up to the expectations to which its work during the preceding weeks had entitled it. Morse secured a fifth place in the high jump, Burke by fast running come home fourth in the mile-against unusually keen competition, while Captain Brown won an easy victory in the 35-pound weight throw