Yale Favored in Heptagonal Meet

Like a racehorse running against Citation and Coaltown, Jaakke Mikkola's track team will be shooting for the show money behind Army and Yale in tomorrow's second annual Heptagonal Meet at Briggs Cage and the Garden.

"Army and Yale have too much power," Mikkola admitted yesterday. He added that with an all out effort, the Crimson might surprise some of the other seven teams entered. "My gosh, I tell you we've just got to go out there and fight," Mikkola said. "If we do, we might take third place."

Ten Teams Entered

Last winter, the varsity finished fourth behind Army, Yale, and Columbia. Since then, the addition of Brown has boosted Hep membership to ten colleges. All ten are endowed with at least one or two talented athletes. Cornell's sophomore Bob Mealey, the national AAU 1000 champion, will probably win his event tomorrow; Penn has a 7:56 two-mile relay team, Olympic hurdler Jeff Kirk, and two-miler Dick Hart; Brown high jumper Dick Phillips generally gets up ever six-six; Al Holland, of Columbia, has done 1:15.3 in the 600; Princeton's Ronald Wittreich will probably press Eli George Wade in the mile; and Dartmouth has the 1948 cross country champion, Stan Waterman.

But Yale and Army pack the real wallop. The Elis finished second behind Michigan State in the IC4-A meet last Saturday. Jim Fuchs, a hippo-gazelle athlete, should win the shot and may also wind up first in the dash. George Wade won the IC4-A mile in 4:13, and sophomore George Appel took the pole vault in the same meet at 14 feet.

The Cadets are good, too. Jim Sholtz, 22-year-old senior, unofficially broke the world record in the 35-pound weight throw at the IC4-A's. A raised throwing platform prevented recognition of the record, but Sholtz will get another chance tomorrow--throwing from an official, ground-level board at Briggs Cage. "Sholtz is capable of throwing 63 or 64 feet," claims Sam Felton. Other possible event-winners for Army are Black Jack Hammack in the 600, and Win Scott in the broad jump. Both Army and Yale have swift one-mile relay teams, and the result of this event may decide the meet.

PROBABLE HARVARD SCORERS:

Pat McCormick (hurdles); Jon Spivak (dash); John Harrigan (high jump); Bill Lawrence and Bud Lockett (pole vault); John Cogan (2-mile); Howie Reed and Bob Forsyth (35-pound weight); Jeff Tootell and Don Trimble (16-pound shot); Dave Carter (broad jump); Harvey Thayer (600); Dick Welch, Al Ruby, George Williams, and Dave Hamblett (two-mile relay).

Heptagonal Timetable

BRIGGS CAGE

35-pound weight throw, 1:30 p.m. Broad jump, 4:30 p.m. 16-pound shot put, 1:30 p.m.

BOSTON GARDEN

Pole vault, 7:30 p.m. 45-yard high hurdles (final), 8:35 p.m. 50-yard dash (final), 8:45 p.m. 1000-yard run (final), 9:00 p.m. 1-mile run, 9:20 p.m. 600-yard run (final), 9:35 p.m. 2-mile run, 9:45 p.m. 2-mile relay, 10:00 p.m. 1-mile relay (final), 10:15 p.m.