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and Tomey are the most prominent candi- 

 dates for the pole vault, the former being 

 the best man Cornell has ever had in this 

 event. He holds the college record of 10 

 feet 2 l / 2 inches. Taylor, Baker and Joseph 

 are about the best of the sprinters. Young 

 and Seuder in the shot and hammer are not 

 up to the standard, and the Freshman class 

 is being relied on to a great extent to fur- 

 nish the men for these events. 



Captain Potter and Rush are the only '98 

 men missing from the '99 Princeton track 

 team. The strength of the '99 team lies in 

 Captain Cregan who captured the mile and 

 the half mile last year; Jarvis, the four- 

 forty winner; and Bottger at the shot. 

 There are a few good freshmen, Hutchin- 

 son leading, in the hurdles. 



Princeton expects to be strong in all the 

 running events, but weak in the field sports. 

 As usual the team will be small, and for 

 that reason Princeton will not take many 

 seconds and thirds. 



Princeton will be much stronger in both 

 the hurdles this year, owing to the going 

 to college of Hutchinson, '02. He has 

 made the high hurdles in 16 1-5 seconds. 

 Wheeler, who won a point in the inter- 

 collegiate meet in '97, will train for both 

 hurdles this season. 



In the half-mile, besides Captain Cregan, 

 are Gaskill, 1900, and Bachelor, '02. 

 Cregan and Palmer will enter the 2 mile 

 race. Besides Bottger, Kearney, '02, and 

 Pell, '02, are candidates for the shot-put. 

 The hammer throwers are new men — 

 Riley, '02, and Mills, '02. Carroll, 1900, won 

 a point out of the high jump in '97, and 

 ought to come close to winning the event 

 this year. Bottger and Gardiner, '02, are 

 candidates for the broad jump. Moore, 

 '02, will try the pole vault. 



Captain Stevens and Trainer Mack are 

 much pleased with the men who answered 

 the call for candidates for the Columbia 

 track team. Columbia's strongest event 

 will undoubtedly be the quarter-mile, in 

 which Captain Stevens and Maxey Long 

 are first class men. Rosenthal will show 

 up well in the mile, and Cogan and De 

 Mille are the best men in the half-mile. 

 Hackett leads in the 2-mile run, while 

 O'Rourke, Van Bauer, Powers, Barker, and 

 Reynolds, from Leland Stanford, will take 

 charge of Columbia's hurdling interests. 

 The chief reliance in the sprints is placed 

 on Long and Stevens, the quarter-milers, 

 though Trainer Mack has great hopes of 

 Johnson, Bucholz, Pratt, Wolf, Weisse, and 

 Ryttenberg. The team is deplorably weak 

 in the high jump. In the weights, Wells is 

 throwing the hammer near the 130 foot 

 mark, while Bruce is around 40 with the 

 shot. 



Candidates for the Yale track team pre- 

 sented themselves to the number of 137, 



and among them are almost all the old 

 men now in college. The '98 men who have 

 left college are not many, and taking it all 

 in all the prospects for a strong team are 

 bright. It will be hard to fill the place of 

 Captain Perkins in the hurdles, and the loss 

 of Cadwalader and O'Donnell in the weight 

 events, Van Beuren in the hurdles, and 

 Byers and Chappell in the sprints will be 

 severely felt, though the general opinion is 

 that the places can be acceptably filled. 

 Waller, '99 S., the high jumper, who en- 

 listed in the Rough Riders, is expected to 

 make a good showing this season. Board- 

 man, 1902, shows promise in the quajter- 

 mile, and Chittenden, 1902, in the long dis- 

 tance runs. Hunter, 1002, in the broad 

 jump, and Barnard, 1901 S., in the hurdles, 

 are expected to do some good work for the 

 Blue. 



There is little doubt that the chief contest 

 in the intercollegiate games will lay be- 

 tween Harvard and Pennsylvania, with the 

 chances for honors now about even. In 

 all probability Yale and Princeton will have 

 a sharp contest for a place. Of course 

 either of these may spring a surprise on 

 their competitors. Columbia and Cornell 

 should run close when the final score is 

 counted. 



The joint gymnastic exhibition given by 

 the teams of Yale and the University of 

 Pennsylvania was participated in by the 

 following men: Yale — R. G. Clapp, '99 S., 

 captain; E. L. Eliason, 1901 ; L. H. Schutte, 

 '99; A. H. Terry, P. G.; W. K. Shepard, 

 P. G.; G. H. Whipple, 1900; W. L. Otis, 

 1900, and M. J. Whitley, 1901 S. Pennsyl- 

 vania — McCracken, Weaver, Gibbons, 

 Gordon, Taylor, Williams, Gengenbalt, 

 Stephens, Crane, Stout, Geer, and Saul. 



Gideon Perrie, the professional Cana- 

 dian weight thrower, has been training 

 the Harvard shot putters for some time 

 past. Flanagan has charge of the Crimson 

 hammer throwers, and they are already 

 showing the valuable effects of his training. 

 W. F. Garcelon has made great progress 

 with the hurdlers at Cambridge, and Har- 

 vard should show up well in hurdling. 



The dual track and field games between 

 Yale and Harvard will be held this year at 

 New Haven, and the date has been an- 

 nounced as May 13. 



ODDS AND ENDS. 



At the last meeting of the Intercollegiate 



Cricket Association the officers were 



chosen for the ensuing year as follows: 



President, A. W. Jones, University of 



