Track Team Banks On Field Events To Edge By Dartmouth, Brown

Against Brown and Dartmouth this Saturday, the track team's strategy will be what it has been all year; try to club its opponents so hard in the field events they won't be able to make up the difference on the track.

The Crimson anticipates a sweep in the broad jump and a hammer throw, and firsts in the shot, javelin, and discus. This should give it a lead which neither Brown nor Dartmouth will be able to overcome, but it may be close. Present estimates make Harvard the winner by about eight points.

Laris to Challenge Mullin

The best races of the day will probably be the one and two mile runs. In the mile Dartmouth's Laris, who was last year's winner (4:11.3), will face a determined Mark Mullin. Also running will be Ed Hamlin and Jed Fitzgerald. The two mile race is a toss-up between the same men.

In the half-mile run, captain Fred Howard is a slight favorite, although he will probably run either the quarter mile or mile first. But the sprints and the hurdles look bleak for the Crimson.

Harvard has only one good sprinter in Frank Yeomans, but he will be no match for Dartmouth's Ashworth and Zeilman, or Brown's Jack Moreland, who is capable of a 9.8 100-yard sprint at any time. Moreland also runs the quarter mile and the low hurdles and he could win them all. In the 440, he will have stiff competition from Holzel of Dartmouth, a good sub-49 man in that event.

The broad jump should be won by Tom Blodgett, followed by Alan Albright, with "Zik" Azikiwe and Marty Beckwith completing the Harvard sweep. It will be the same story in the hammer throw; Stan Doten should win, and Loren Clayman, Ed Bailey, and Roger Wilson will be right behind him.

The discus will be a tussle between John Bronstein and Dartmouth's George Ramming. Last year, Bronstein beat Ramming by mere inches. In the shot put, Rick DeLone, Sarge Nichols and Steve Cohen should take the first three places.

Beckwith is a slight favorite in the high jump, as is Blodgett in the pole vault and Tom Corbin in the javelin throw.