Track Team Favored Over Tigers In Dual Match at Princeton Today

The Harvard track team ought to clobber Princeton today, but New Jersey fans will be staying around Palmer. Stadium until the last moments of the meet anyway. The occasion will be a duel between the two best college high jumpers in the East.

Princeton's captain John Hartnett and Harvard's sophomore Chris Pardee are getting to be old rivals. In this winter's Harvard-Princeton-Yale indoor meet, Pardee left the Tiger several inches behind, with a winning jump of 6'7".

Hartnett was upset; he showed it a week later by flipping over 6'7 1/4" to beat Pardee by an inch and win the Heptagonals. They met again a week later at the ICUA games and Pardee raised the stakes; after tying Hartnett at 6'7", he rolled over 6'9" on the first jump. The Tiger captain crashed through the bar three times.

Record Broken

Pardee's jump that day was an Ivy record, but it didn't last long. Last Saturday Hartnett wen 6'9 1/2" against Rutgers and then announced that he had done 6'11" in practice and might just do it against Pardee.

The Crimson sophomore, meanwhile, took it easy, going over 6'6 1/4" on his first try against Holy Cross, and then quiting. He explained apologetically that he felt stiff. Pardee speaks of 6'6 1/4" with a tinge of scorn, as if it were something most high jumpers could do with their feet tied together.

Whoever wins the high jump today, Harvard should win the meet. Art Croasdale, one of the most consistent shot-putters around, should get little competition in his specialty, or in the hammer, where Princeton has no one over 165 feet.

Aggrey Aworl will get competition from John Ball in both dashes, and Tony Lynch should have his hands full against Tiger record-holder Tod Williams in the hurdles. But Ed Meehan has beaten Princeton half-miler Terry O'Keefe twice, and the Tiger distance men should be no threat to Meehan and Walter Hewlett. Harvard might even take the 440 for once; Princeton's Lew Hitzrot hasn't been under 49.5 yet.

Power in the Field

In the field, Chris Ohiri, Awori, and Pardee may sweep the broad jump against Princeton's John Pieper, who set a personal record of 21'5" Saturday. No Tiger triple-jumper has beaten 43'; Ohiri is consistent at 47, Tom Holcombe and John Bakkensen should clean up the javelin and the discus respectively without trouble.

Only the pole vault appears to be a sure source of points for Princeton; Dick Bolander, at 15', is 2' ahead of any Harvard vaulter. The Tigers might even sweep the event.

It will take more than one sweep to keep the Crimson from running away with this meet; after dropping a 76-73 decision to Army two weeks ago, the varsity is mad. They showed it in picking Holy Closs apart, 106-37, last weekend Today's score in Princeton could be almost as impressive.