Crimson Withdraws Team From English Track Batlle

Crimson track forces will definitely not be joining with Yale in a meet against Oxford and Cambridge this year, the H.A.A. announced last night.

Financial problems, not an upsurge of Anglophobia, were responsible for Harvard's withdrawal from the meet. According to Thomas D. Bolles, Athletic Director, "We just can't justify the meet with our present financial difficulties."

The British teams had agreed to pay their own expenses for a trans-Atlantic voyage this year. However, they requested a guarantee from American teams that a return trip be made in 1955.

This year's meet was scheduled to be hold in Harvard Stadium in mid-June. It will probably still be held, but neither Harvard nor Princeton will participate.

According to Getchell, who said he had not yet received official notification, the English teams will run against Yale and Cornell in one meet in America.

Then they will move South, for a combined meet against a combined team from Army and Pennsylvania, who have stepped in to fill the gap. Their participation, Getchell said, was arranged by former Yale Athletic Director Bob Hall.

Getchell explained that no fund drive among track alumni could be contemplated at present since three recent drives had virtually exhausted both the patience and the monetary reserves of the graduate track group.

Cost for this year's meet would have run to perhaps $1,000 for Harvard, Getchell recently estimated. However, he suggested that to send the team to England in 1955 would have necessitated an expenditure of $4,000 to $5,000.