CAPPER TO LEAD TRACK TEAM

Francis Whittler Capper '15, of Brookline, was unanimously chosen to lead the University track team next year at a meeting of the "H" men held in Notman's studio yesterday afternoon after the picture was taken. The choice is a popular one, Capper having been the mainstay of the team in the half-mile run for the past two seasons.

Capper began his athletic career at Brookline High School where he played on the football team and began his development as a track star. At high school, he ran the sprints, the low hurdles, and the quarter, besides doing a little broad-jumping. His skill in each of these events kept him from specializing in any one of them and it was not until last year, when he had been shifted to the half-mile, that he began to show really championship calibre. In his Freshman year, Capper ran the quarter against Yale and took second place. Last year, in the half, he took third place in the Yale meet and also in the Intercollegiate meet. As a member of the 390-yard relay team last winter he helped to establish a world's record of 3 minutes, 3 seconds for the distance when running against the strong B. A. A. quartet. In the Yale meet this year, Capper finished second to Captain Brown of Yale when the latter established a new dual record of 1 minute, 54 seconds. He secured a fourth in the Intercollegiate meet in the same event when Caldwell of Cornell made a new record for the distance of 1 minute 53 2-5 seconds. In this race he was beaten only by Caldwell, Brown of Yale, and Meredith of Pennsylvania, who holds the world's record of 1 minute, 52 1-2 seconds.

Capper was handicapped this year in having to face in his races the keenest competition of years, but nevertheless he always finished well up despite his comparative lack of experience. He has run better with each succeeding race, and with the added strength of another year's running should prove a well-nigh invincible man.