Women's Ivy Track Meet Opens Today; Princeton Favored to Capture Title

Harvard women's track coach Pappy Hunt has a simple strategy for today's Ivy League Championships. "We're just going to have to get a place of everything."

The Crimson thinclads are going to have to do a lot more merely place, however, if they are to surpass talent-laden Princeton and grab the Ivy League laurels. Last weekend the Grange and Black squad narrowly defeated Harvard in the tri-meet with Yale in New Heven to take a tenuous hold on Ivy supremacy, third- and fourth-place finishes, the league title will be convincingly theirs.

The key to a possible Harvard upset today will revolve around the performance of the sprinting corps of Marjorie Scharoun, Kathy Busby, Sigrid Gabler and Alice Neuhauser. Last weekend Scharoun was the only Harvard runner to place in the 55-meter dash, and none cracked the top four in the 200-meter dash.

Although Busby is recovering from a stress fracture and Neuhauser--in Hunt's words, "might bust out,"--the Crimson sprinters will have to master some superior efforts to edge the strong Yale and Princeton squad.

Harvard will go unrepresented in the hurdles as freshman standout Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson will devote herself to an attempt at a one-two finish with teammate Karen Cray in the pentathlon Junior Lenny Yajlma will have to take up Patterson's slack in the long jump. In the Big Time meet, Patterson took third in the event with a 5.26 meter effort.

In the 400-meter run Harvard also suffers from a lack of experienced competitors. Gabler has began training for this distance recently to fill in the Harvard hole, but she will not pose much of a threat to Princeton's Beny Newsam, who run away with first place last weekend.

Of Newsam's performance--which out-shone that of Harvard phenom Darlene Beckford--Hunt said. "She outran Darlene and that's quite an accomplishment. New sam ran one hell of race". The Princeton star is also expected to compete for the Tigers' defending 880 and mile-relay quarters, and place well in the long jump.

Harvard record-holder Liane Rozzell--who returned to competition only recently--has a shot at taking high jump honors this afternoon, but Princeton's Sarah Chang will pose a stiff challenge Last weekend the lanky and lean Tiger was the tri-meet's only triple winner, taking the hurdles long jump and high jump.

Two areas where the Crimson team is blessed with depth and unlimited talent are in the shotput and the distance events Senior Co-captain Kim Johnson is favored to take the shot and Kate Wiley Jenny Stricker Kathy Goode and Beckford should prevailed in the 800, 1500, 3000 and 5000 events. Seniors Kristen Linsley and Paula Newnham who have been fighting injuries and illness might also see action in the distance races.