The interest in the Mott Haven games next Saturday is greater than for some years, and the prospects are that the contest will be extremely close and interesting. As has often been the case three colleges are claiming consideration as possible winners of the cup, but this year it is Pennsylvania and not Princeton that will make the fight with Harvard and Yale. Experience has shown that predictions concerning the outcome of the individual events cannot be made with any degree of assurance. However, brief mention of the men whose public performances have been worthy of especial notice may be of interest.

In the hundred yards besides the Harvard and Yale men, Dear of Princeton and Ramsdell and Bucholtz of Pennsylvania seem most likely to show up well. Dear won the recent Princeton-Columbia hundred in 10 1-5 seconds. Ramsdell has been running regularly in the same time this spring and Pennsylvania seems fairly confident that he will win. Buchotz was second in the event last year but has been beaten by Ramsdell this spring.

In the 220 Merrill and Prado both beat Yale's best man at New Haven. In the other colleges Ramsdell of Pennsylvania and Small of Columbia who won third place last year at the intercollegiates are the most promising men in the long dash.

In the quarter Merrill and Hildreth will have to meet, beside Sanford and Chubb of Yale, Shaw of Cornell and Freeman of Pennsylvania, both of whom are probably able to run slightly under 51 seconds. Shaw won third place last year. Freeman has been in the finals for two years past and is reported to have improved considerably.

In the half there seem to be few men outside of Harvard and Yale who can hope to finish up near the front. Kelsey of Pennsylvania has run in about 2m. 3s., and Orton from the same college should go very fast if he is not used up after the mile run.

The mile should certainly go to Orton. He is the American and Canadian champion and has run about eight seconds below the best intercollegiate record. Jarvis of Wesley an who won last year, Morgan of Yale and Coolidge and Collamore of Harvard are the other knownmen. Morgan is running fast this year and it would not be surprising to see him beat Jarvis.

Both hurdle races should be fought out by the Harvard and Yale men, though Michigan is said to have a low hurdler who has made fast time. Harvard can hardly hope for quite as good luck in these events as she had at New Haven, as Capt. Lyman fell in the finals of the high and Cady was shut out in the trials by meeting both Bremer and Garcelon.

The standard in the mile walk is poorer than it has been for years and there seems to be no one better than either Phillips of Harvard or Bunnell of Yale.

In the bicycle, Coates and Osgood of Pennsylvania are men who will fight with Glenny of Yale for first place. If the race is fast Elliot may do better than at New Haven. In the field events there are beside the men who contested in the Harvard-Yale games, Leslie of Pennsylvania and Burke and Earle of Columbia in the high jump, Ramsdell of Pennsylvania in the broad jump, Towne of Williams and Bucholtz in the polevault, Knipe of Pennsylvania in the shot and Patterson of Cornell and Clark of Swarthmore in the hammer.

The results of the N. E. I. A. A. games at Worcester today will be watched with interest as showing what may be expected of the New England colleges at New York.