Scoring System Will Favor British in Track Meet

It won't matter how many seconds and thirds the combined Harvard-Yale track team racks up when it meets the Oxford-Cambridge team here on the twentieth; it will be firsts and only firsts that count. This is because the British and not the American system of scoring is traditionally used in the international series.

A casual look at the little that is known of the English team over here would seem to indicate that the British will derive a distinct advantage from the method of scoring that will be used.

While it will be possible to tell much more about the English after their meet against Princeton and Cornell which will be held Saturday at Princeton, it now appears that the British team is loaded with stars and lacking in depth.

Wilkinson Best English Sprinter

Sprinter John Wilkinson of Oxford will represent the English in both the 100 and the 220. If he had not injured himself in 1947, he would almost certainly have run in the Olympics. He can run the 100 meters in 10.5 and the 220 yards in 22.2.

The British 220, unlike the American, is run on a curve. Since the race will be run English-style here, Harvey Thayer and Yale's Hobart, Gottlieb, who will represent the Americans in the event, have been madly practicing starts on a curve.

Freshman Weiskopf Runs 100

Crimson freshman star, Dick Weiskopf was t have run in both the 220 and the 100 on the basis of his performance in the Yale meet, which served as a time trial for the international event. He recently pulled a muscle, however, and it was thought best to use him only in the 100, and to replace him in the longer sprint event with Thayer who had placed second behind Gottlieb in the varsity sprint at New Haven.

Scot stars In 440

A. Scot of Cambridge will run in both the quarter and the half. He has been clocked at 49 flat in the 440. A 49.4 quarter by Jack Lohnes of Yale won the Crimson-Blue meet.

Bannister of Oxford should provide good competition for Yale's George Wade who set a new Harvard-Yale mile record this year running the distance in 4:15.6. The Britisher has been clocked at 4:16 and has run the mile in less than, 4:20 on eight occasions.

Durakis Is American Hurdler

Charlie Durakis, the freshman who never hurdled before coming to Harvard, will represent the Americans in the low hurdles, against Brooks of Cambridge and Williams of Oxford. The high hurdles will see a fight between Leonard Philips of Yale against Crimes, formally of Yale who will run for the British. He has run the event in 15:5.6. Phillips took the Eli-Crimson meet in 15.6.

Another freshman, captain of this year's team, Bill Geick will broad-jump against the English, together with Charlie Haase of Yale. Neither of the Americans has come close to the 22 foot distance that Cambridge star Edwards has been able to jump on several occasions this year.

This only Crimson varsity entry in the meet is this year's cross country captain, John Cogan, who will run in the two-mile event. British strength in the long distances is not known. the combined Harvard-Yale team is partly due to the fact that the hammer, discus, and javelin will not be thrown in the meet. These three events have been Harvard's strongest this year. It is not known yet whether a mile relay will be run or not.

Yale stars Jim Fuchs and George Apple are cinches to win their events-the shot and the pole vault. The thigh jump shot prove close. One Britisher is known to have jumped 5 feet, 11 inches, and Yale boasts a pair of freshmen twins who are both able to jump close to 6 feet.

The last Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale meet was held in England in 1939, when the British whipped the combined American team 9 to 3. Howie Mendel was the only Crimson winner, setting a meet record of 47 feet, 11 inches in the 16 pound shot