Track Team Faces B.U., Holy Cross

For the first time in the Spring season, Harvard weightmen will come into the limelight as the deciding factor in a relatively close meet. The Crimson track team, that has averaged over 100 points per meet against Boston College and Rhode Island, runs into the fast squads of Holy Cross and Boston University at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon in the Stadium.

So far the weight events have been instrumental only in piling up the score, but today both of the visiting teams are strong in the distances and in the field, and are strong enough in the shorter runs.

Mikkola's squad figures to win, possibly carrying off as many as 65 points, and it should be a fairly spectacular run for the second slot.

Geoff Tootell, Don Trimble, Al Wilson, and Charlie Keith should lower the boom early in the meet with the shot put, discus, and javelin. Keith threw the javelin over 182 feet last Saturday, but the Crusaders' George Gallogly has bettered 170 and can be second. BU's Irving Black and Jim Lang ought to finish one-two over Dick Rubin with the Hammer.

Dave Carter, who has starred for the Crimson in recent contests by sweeping the broad jump, 100, and 220, can only be sure of the jump this afternoon. Crusader Bill Gould, New England intercollegiate 220 champion, should win that event and may be a strong contender in the 100. Court Ellis and Dudley O'Leary of BU also may figure in the dash scoring.

Quarter, Half Tough

In the longer distances, Ronnie Berman will have trouble with Crusader Dick Ahearn in the half-mile, and Harvey Thayer will get his strong opposition in the quarter from Terrier Dudley O'Leary, who did 48.1 seconds as a freshman.

The Crimson has been pretty weak in the longer runs. Ahern should finish ahead of BU's Dick Fitzgerald in the mile, with Dave Cairns third. Crusader George McVey will probably run away with the two-mile as easily as Rhode Island's Bob Black did last week. Charlie Durakis of Harvard can take both hurdles events again, but hurdler Pat McCormick has been sacrificed to a Law School exam.

Carter will take the broad jump, with Court Ellis second, and Kelley third. Kelley and Ellis can very well give the Crimson's Dick Barwise trouble, with a three-way tie at six feet a possibility in the high jump.

Unless Bud Lockett comes through, the Crimson will be lucky to get anything in the pole vault. Terrier Jose Barbosa, sixth in the Olympics, does a consistent 13 feet.

If a mile relay is run, it should add another five points to the Harvard total. Last Saturday Lou Tsavaris, Ed Grutzner, Tom McGrath, and Joa Walsh ran a respectable 3:28, with Grutzner turning in the best time.

If Mikkola wants to substitute Thayer for one of the others, they can do a better time. The relayers were a high point in Crimson scoring efforts in the slow-starting, relatively unsuccessful winter track season, and will probably have equal success in the warm weather.