MIKKOLA MUSTERS HARRIERS FOR FIRST PRACTICE, SEES FAIR SEASON AHEAD

Headed by Captain Langdon Durwell, third pisco winner in last year's heptagonal meet, fifty varsity and freshman harriers reported to Coach Jaakko Mikkola yesterday afternoon for the first official cross country practice of the season.

About ten men from last year's squad, that went through a tough schedule without a defeat, have been working out under the genial Jaakko during the last few days but so far practice has been limited to limbering up and easy jogging.

The thinlyclads who open their schedule with the University handicap meet on October 4 lost heavily through graduation. The absence of ex-Captain Ben Tuttle, Jim Lighbody, Gene Clark, and Davo Simboli will be hard medicine to take but according to Mikkola the team should be "fair."

"We put everybody in--we should win our share," commented Mentor Jaakko who always enters all the men he can in his home meets.

On October 11 a meet with Boston University is tentatively scheduled but arrangements are not complete. A strong Holy Cross squad will invade the home course on October 18 and on the following Friday Dartmouth and New Hampshire tangle with the Crimson warriors in a triangular affair. The H-Y-P meet which will be held here this season, the Heptagonals and the IC4A meet both in New York then follow in succession.

Of the men returning from last year's squad Captain Burwell should stand out with understudies Bob McLoughlin, Bob Houghton, Bob Jay, Tom McElligott, and Bob Nichols also in the running. Among the sophomores who have already re-reported are Hugh Tuttle, brother of last year's varsity captain, Bob Ulin, Joe Scott, Willard Dalrymple, Paul Cook, and Don McCaul. The loss of Paul Johrde, last year's Yardling captain who did not return to college will be a serious one as Mikkola was counting on him heavily.