Track Team Goes to Brandeis Today, Seeks Greater Boston Cinder Crown

The Crimson trackmen seek to reaffirm their supremacy among local collegians in the third annual Greater Boston Conference meet at Brandeis today and tomorrow. McCurdy & Co. beat out North-eastern 74-61 for first place in this year's indoor competition, and the coach expects the outdoor results to be about the same.

Part of the Harvard strategy will be to pile up a big lead in today's field events. John Bakkensen, who set a University record with a discus throw of 173 ft., 8 1/2 in. in Saturday's win over Dartmouth, is the prohibitive choice for first place in that event. Teammate Bill Pfeifer will battle Northeastern's Carl Wallin for second.

Wallin is favored in the shot put, where he has registered a 57 ft., 4 1/2 in. heave. Crimson junior Art Croasdale should be a solid second. Another Northeastern behemoth, Bill Corsetti, is the first choice in the hammer throw, but Croasdale just might upset this husky Huskie. Corsetti has a 196 ft., 7 1/2 in. effort to his credit, the nation's best throw by a collegian this spring, but Croasdale topped him in the Penn relays when the Northeastern star was plagued by foul trouble.

Because of a schedule conflict, Chris Ohiri will miss today's competition, but his understudies in the broad jump and triple jump should still make healthy additions to the Crimson point total.

Aggrey Awori and Boston College's Henry Keller will battle for first place in the broad jump in what could be today's most exciting duel. Both have been near the 24-foot mark this spring. In the triple jump, it will again be Keller against Chris Pardee and Olufemi Olunloyo for the Crimson. The Eagle ace is a more solid favorite in this event.

The Harvard pole vaulters, Don Forte and Jay Mahaney, and M.I.T.'s Ken Morash are likely to share the top three positions in that event, but the order is anybody's guess. In the final field event, the javelin, the Crimson's Tom Holcombe looks good for a second place behind Tom O'Callahan of Brandeis. Larry Ward can give Harvard another place if he can beat out Tufts's top spear-thrower Chris Rudd.