Track Squad to Meet Yale

Four out of five 800 is a good batting average for any sport for any season. Jaakko Mikkola's trackmen at present have a record of four victories in four starts. But Bob Giegengack's Yale squad, strongest in the East, is due in Cambridge tonight.

The Crimson goes onto Soldiers Field for a warm-weather testing of the powerful Blue team at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow.

A prospective score appears dismal when derived from meets between mutual opponents. Harvard edged Dartmouth by 12 points in Hanover last Saturday, while Yale piled up better than two for one against the Indians in a triangular meet with Columbia two weekends earlier.

But a comparison of times and distances on paper don't indicate any three-figure walkaway for the Elis. It should be something like 85 to 55. It could be closer.

About the only heavy mid-term loss to Giegengack's team is Heptagonal sprint title-holder Charlie Kellar. Yale is well-balanced, however, with plenty of depth--so Kellar's loss means only that the powerful Blue will have an approximately equal edge in running, field events, and weights.

Fuchs Shot Put Choice

World champion Jim Fuchs, who relies more on sheer strength than on form, will take the shot put, with Eli and Crimson captains Vic Frank and Geoff Tootell trailing. And it should be the same three, in the order of Frank, Fuchs, and Tootell, with the discus.

Unless Eric Stromsted or Dick Rubin can better previous performances, Yale's Spence Cone, Gould Donahue, and Paul Mason can sweep the hammer; but Charlie Keith and Don Trimble are a potential Harvard one, two with the javelin, with either Fred Ravreby or Eli Dick Bowers grabbing third.

Dave Carter and Harvey Thayer can take the 100 and 220. George Ellis and Hobart Gottlieb are Yale's threats in the 100, while Gottlieb should be close to Thayer in the longer sprint.

If they hold to the form they showed in the Dartmouth meet, Thayer and Ed Grutzner could take the two lead positions in the 440. Elis Fred Swope and Henry Stoltmann will also figure strongly in the race.

Wade in Half Mile

Ronnie Berman's springtime victories in the half-mile have to end sometime. Sometime is tomorrow. Former national mile champion George Wade set a new Yale mark of 1:52 flat last week. Stoltmann's times are also better than Berman's.

Wade, a tall, long-striding senior from Seattle, will take the mile, with teammate Frank Elfinger second and Dave Cairns third. Eli Ed Mearns is close to 9:30 in the two-mile, and teammate George Dole and Harvard's Bill Baker can also score. Charlie Durakis can take the hurdles, but Brian Pendleton of the Blue figures to lead Pat McCormick.

Comparative times indicate a very close mile-relay, with Harvard on top. Carter will edge Tod Lewis of Yale in the broad jump, but Elis George Appel and Neil King should pole vault higher than Bud Lockett. Lockett and Dick Barwise will get their opposition from George Hipple and Jim Keyes in the high jump