Crimson Harriers Plan Win Over B.U. Today

Pausing for a breather in their preparations for Cornell and Brown this Saturday, the Harvard cross-country team will visit Boston University today for the annual slaughter of the Terriers.

Last year Harvard defeated the boys from B.U. 15-50, which is a shut-out in cross-country. It means that Crimson runners finished in the first seven places.

So meek do the Terriers appear again this year, that coach Bill McCurdy sent his Harvard runners through a full-scale workout yesterday instead of giving them the usual day off before a meet. Of course, the fact that Ivy League co-favorites Cornell and Brown loom on the near horizon for the Crimson also had much to do with McCurdy's unorthodox action.

Two Good Runners

He said yesterday that B.U. has "only two competent long-distance men, at most." One of them is Paul Scott, a transfer student whom McCurdy describes as a sturdy runner roughly on a par with Harvard's big three of Meehan, Crain and Hewlett.

B.U. also has a sophomre named Herbert Doyle who is from Nova Scotia and is something of an unknown quantity. "I've heard of a very good runner around here who halls from somewhere up in the maritime area, and Doyle may be the one," McCurdy said.

The rest of the B.U. team are middle-distance men, he said, and should present no threat today.

Big Meet Saturday

In the meantime, Harvard is focusing most of its attention on this Saturday's important triangular meet here. A deep team, Brown was the pre-season Ivy favorite, but with the reappearance of Cornell's Steve Machooka, the Big Red is now figured to give the Bears a run for the title.

Machooka ran away with the IC4A meet as a sophomore, but competed on only one or two occasions last year. He should Provide a good test for sophomore Walt Hewlett, who won without being pushed against Providence last week. Crimson Captain Ed Meehan, who has been plagued by a bad Achilles tendon, should be closer to top form Saturday and could stay with Machooka and Hewlett.