Harriers Squash In ians; Meehan Sets New Record

Captain Ed Meehan set a course record yesterday as the Harvard cross-country team topped off a nice holiday in New Hampshire with an easy 19-44 win over the Dartmouth Indians.

About the only surprises were that a Dartmouth runner managed to sneak into second place and that Walt Hewlett, Harvard's number-one man, decided not to make the trip. Faced with the possibility of missing Friday classes for four straight weeks, Hewlett elected to take yesterday's workout in Cambridge instead of Hanover.

As it turned out, Howlett's workout was probably more strenuous than his teammates'. Meehan's fine performance was accomplished with the greatest of case--he finished 24 seconds ahead of Dartmouth's Lee Daneker.

Bill Crain was just three yards behind Dancker, and thereafter Crimson runners came in one after another in rather monotonous fashion. John Ogden was fourth. Langdon Burwell fifth, Dave Allen sixth, etc.

Meehan's time, nine seconds faster than the old mark, will stand as the new record even though he ran yesterday over a slightly shortened course.

Meehan experimented by running with both his ankles taped tightly. Judging by his record breaking performance, the Crimson captain may have found at last the "cure" for the sore Achilles tendons that have plagued him all season.

After their illnesses last week, Crain's and Ogden's performances also are very encouraging. Crain led Daneker through-out most of the last three miles only to be outkicked by the Dartmouth runner in the final ten yards.

With the Big Three and Heptagonal meets coming up in the next two weeks, a sturdy, healthy squad is essential to the Crimson hopes. Harvard will enter next Friday's meet at New Haven as the favorite, although Princeton has a very respectable team led by Ray Somers.

Yale, which finished a very distant third in last year's meet, should again present no threat.

Coach Bill McCurdy figures that Harvard also has a very good chance in the Heptagonal in two weeks, despite the presence of Brown and Cornell, both of whom have defeated Harvard.