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is hard to see how she can fail to make new 

 figures. Munson this year should better 4.20 

 for the first time in college athletics. He is 

 easily the. fastest American miler in years, 

 and a worthy successor of Willie Day, 

 Tommy Conneff and George. 



Magoffin is good for better than 4.30, and 

 so is Smith. If a fourth man can be found 

 to do 4.40, nearly a half minute can be 

 clipped off the record. Chicago and Michi- 

 gan claim very fast teams, while Yale, Penn- 

 sylvania and Columbia expect to cut some 

 figure. 



The individual contests should be almost 

 as notable. Most important, if it can be con- 

 summated, will be a match between Ralph 

 Rose and W. W. Coe. Both are remarkable 

 shot putters. Rose holds the record of 48 

 feet y l / 2 inches, which Coe broke at Medford 

 recently by over 6 inches. The latter's mark 

 was not accepted because of the nature of 

 the missile. A meeting of the two would 

 do more to prove the calibre of the record 

 than all else, and new marks should certain- 

 ly result. 



THE SPRINTS. 



There would be no other contest so strik- 

 ing. In the sprints, Schick, of Harvard, 

 should prove an easy winner. Dear, of Penn- 

 sylvania, and Rulon Miller, of Princeton, are 

 his nearest Eastern competitors. Eckersall 

 and Blair, of Chicago, are the Western lead- 

 ers. None can touch the Cambridge boy at 

 his best. Georgetown hopes much from 

 Seitz, who broke Duffey's 40-yard record, 

 but it is doubtful if he can last 100 yards at 

 speed. It took Duffey years to develop 

 strength to last 1O0 yards at his shorter dis- 

 tance speed. Torrey, of Yale, and Hogen- 

 son, of Chicago, are the others entered. 



Of hurdlers there are none in college to- 

 day. Graduation left only four who figured 

 in last year's championship. Vonnegut and 

 Ashburner, of Cornell, Castleman, of Col- 

 Colgate, and Amsler, of Pennsylvania, none 

 approached first-class. The hurdle will be 

 an open event. 



Neither are there any first-class men in the 

 field events, if we except McLanahan and 

 Shevlin, of Yale. Shevlin has only Van 

 Doyn, of Syracuse, to defeat in the hammer 

 throw, while McLanahan is only approached 

 in the pole vault by Behr and Adriance, his 

 mates, and Moore, of Cornell. 



THE BROAD JUMP. 



The broad jump lies between Hubbard, 

 of Amherst, Sheffield, of Yale, and Greene, 

 of Pennsylvania, unless Stangland, of Co- 

 lumbia, shows no ill effects from last fall's 

 football injury. 



Nevertheless, all these events will be in- 

 teresting as indicating something of the rela- 

 tive prospects of the teams for the champion-. 

 ships. This year the Cup contests are more 



open than ever before. Every team that fig- 



ured^ last year is depleted. Yale is the 

 heaviest loser, though Harvard, Pennsylvania 

 and Princeton all suffer. Cornell, alone, re- 

 mains intact, serving to equalize the five 

 teams. 



Pennsylvania with any development would 

 have the better chance. Dear, Hyman and 

 Taylor should win nearly 15 points in the 

 sprints, with Amsler, Greene and Boyd to 

 add 10. The addition of a half dozen points 

 would win in a broken field. 



Yale has Parsons, McLanahan, Shevlin, 

 Sheffield, Alcott, Teal, Behr, who should 

 yield 25 points, and Harvard, with Shick, 

 Schaenfus, Dives, needs to develop a num- 

 ber of second strings to win, while Princeton 

 and Cornell are in about the same position. 

 Altogether the outlook could scarcely be 

 more open. 



ON THE WATER. 



The crew men occupy third place in inter- 

 est at present. There is still a month of hard 

 work before they even enter the preliminary 

 contests. Annapolis in May meets Yale, Co- 

 lumbia, Georgetown and Pennsylvania in 

 weekly succession. These are .the earliest 

 races. Then follows the Decoration Day 

 race for Harvard and Cornell, and the pro- 

 posed second crew race in the American 

 Henley. 



If the plans of the stewards of the latter 

 event are consummated successfully this 

 race should supersede in interest almost any 

 other in college aquatics. It is now planned 

 to have Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cor- 

 nell, Columbia, Syracuse, Georgetown and 

 Wisconsin enter crews composed of oarsmen 

 who have never competed in any event at 

 Poughkeepsie or New London. Such a race 

 would produce an almost ideal contest and 

 would arouse great interest. 



Should Cornell and Harvard enter the 

 Henley event it is probable that their Dec- 

 oration Day race would be made a 'Varsity 

 event. As such it would become a champion- 

 ship contest in effect, since it would bring to- 

 gether a New London and Poughkeepsie 

 contestant and afford a basis for compari- 

 son between these events. 



HARVARD BEING WATCHED. 



Harvard's crew this year will be watched 

 with keen interest in view of the abandon- 

 ment of her long contest against professional 

 coaching. The years of defeat have at last 

 driven her to give up graduate supervision 

 and put all boasting interests in the hands of 

 James Wray, the old-time professional. 

 Yale, too, no longer makes a pretense of 

 graduate coaching, acknowledging Kennedy 

 the position he has always occupied in fact. 

 Whatever success Harvard has will certainly 

 be due to the innovation. 



Columbia will also experiment with a 





