INTERCOLLEGIATE GAMES

The thirty-sixth annual track and field games of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America will be held in the Stadium today and tomorrow. This afternoon at 2.30 o'clock the preliminary heats and trials will begin for all events except the mile and two-mile runs, leaving only the semi-final and final heats to be run off tomorrow. Owing to the very large number of entries and the remarkably high standard of the competitors in many of the events, the preliminaries this afternoon give promise of some excellent performances.

Admission to all seats for today will be 50 cents. Reserved seats for tomorrow, at $1.50 and $1 each, are on public sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, Amee's, the Co-operative, and the Co-operative Branch in Cambridge, and at Wright & Ditson's and Herrick's in Boston. There are a number of good seats still on sale. Admission tomorrow will be 50 cents. As the meet is not held under the Harvard Athletic Association, neither H. A. A. nor baseball season tickets will admit to Soldiers Field.

This year there are 956 entries, made by twenty-two different colleges and universities. This total is slightly less than that of the past two years. The entries are made from the different institutions as follows: Harvard, 125; Cornell, 113; Yale, 96; University of Pennsylvania, 79; Michigan, 68; Princeton, 62; Colgate, 61; Amherst, 53; Dartmouth, 51; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 46; Syracuse, 46; Williams, 28; Columbia, 27; Bowdoin, 24; Brown, 16; Rutgers, 15; College of the City of New York, 10; Wesleyan, 10; Fordham, 8; New York University, 6; Pennsylvania State, 6; Swarthmore, 6.

Judging from the meets which the different colleges have held this year and from the records of the individual performers first place in the games seems likely to go to Cornell or University of Pennsylvania. Cornell's main strength lies in the runs, but the team has also some good field event men. On the other hand, the Pennsylvania aggregation is a well-balanced one and will take many seconds and thirds. It will probably happen that one of the two will detract a sufficient number of points from the other so as to allow Yale to slip into second place. The University team will have Michigan to contend with for fourth place, with the odds in favor of the latter for the position. The actual strength of the Western team is unknown and it is possible that it may be even a serious contender for first place. Princeton, in spite of the fact that the dual meet was won from Yale, can hardly expect more than sixth. This year will see a number of points go to good contestants from the smaller colleges, and these odd places can easily upset all expectations. At present it seems that 29 points will win the games for any team. The points in each event will be first place, 5; second place, 3; third place, 2; fourth place, 1.

Two score boards have been put up in the middle of the Stadium, the one on the left to record the track events and the one on the right for the field events. On the track score board the number of the event will correspond to the number of the event in the program. The time only of the first man will be recorded. Today the numbers of only the men qualifying for the semi-finals or finals will be recorded in each heat. On the right of this board, under the word "score," will be posted the standing of the first four colleges.

On the field event board, under the words "man perf.", the number of each man as he performs will be recorded. Today the men qualifying for tomorrow's competition will be posted in the spaces after "1st," "2d," etc., where the final results will be posted tomorrow.

Time and Order of Events Today.

TRACK EVENTS.

The program of events today is as follows:

2.30.--100-yard dash, trials.

2.50.--880-yard run, trials.

3.10.--120-yard hurdles, trials.

3.30.--440-yard dash, trials.

3.50.--220-yard hurdles, trials.

4.10.--220-yard dash, trials.

FIELD EVENTS.

2.30.--Putting 16-pound shot, trials.

2.30.--Pole-vault, trials.

2.30.--Running high jump, trials.

3.30.--Throwing 16-pound hammer, trials.

3.30.--Running broad jump, trials.

Forecast of Events.

The competitors in most of the events this year are unusually matched and some extremely close finishes are expected. It is hard to pick any particular events as features, inasmuch as all will undoubtedly be of the highest class, but the quarter and the mile perhaps will hold the closest attention of the spectators. While few records are likely to go, many will be closely approached. A number of last year's point winners will compete, but their chances of scoring again can hardly be based on their performances a year ago, because many new stars have been developed.

The 100-yard dash will not concern Harvard to a great extent. First in this and the furlong will probably go to Craig of Michigan. Minds of Pennsylvania, Cooke of Princeton, Ford of Cornell, and Reilly of Yale will probably fight it out for the other places in the shorter distance. Ross of Michigan is an unknown quantity and may score. In the 220 dash Ford, Cooke, Bleistein of Yale, and Bennett of Cornell will look after the second, third and fourth places.

Captain MacArthur of Cornell has made the best time of the year in the 440-yard dash. H. W. Kelley '11, on the other hand, has run consistently around 50 seconds this spring and has not been pushed. Considering the slight advantage Kelley will have because it is his own track, he seems a probable winner over MacArthur. All of last year's point winners will again compete in this event, Reidpath of Syracuse, MacArthur, Sawyer of Princeton, and Young of Amherst. Lester of Williams, Gamble of Michigan, Hough and Smith of Pennsylvania, and Fogg of Syracuse, are also fast men.

First place in the half-mile depends on whether Paull of Pennsylvania runs this race or the mile. If Paull runs only this event he should win it, or otherwise first place will go to Putnam of Cornell. B. M. Preble '12, and H. Jacques, Jr., '11, will have to contend with McKinney of Princeton and Hall and Reck of Michigan for the other points.

Jones of Cornell seems the probable winner in the mile and may break the intercollegiate record of 4 minutes, 17 4-5