The thirty-fourth annual track and field games of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America will be held today and tomorrow in the Stadium. This afternoon at 2.30 o'clock the preliminary elimination 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 exceptionally 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 today will be 50 cents. Reserved seats for tomorrow, at $1.50 and $1 each, are on public sale at the Athletic Office and Leavitt & Peirce's in Cambridge and at Wright & Ditson's in Boston. There are a number of good seats still on sale. Admission to the Stadium tomorrow will be 50 cents. As the meet is not held under the auspices of the Harvard Athletic Association, neither H. A. A. nor baseball season tickets will admit to Soldiers Field.
There are 1,046 entries, made by twenty different colleges. This is far larger than the entry list in any previous meet. The entries from the various colleges are as follows: Harvard, 129; Cornell, 114; Yale, 96; Michigan, 91; Bowdoin, 80; Pennsylvania, 79; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 73; Columbia, 68; Amherst, 06; Dartmouth, 59; Princeton, 52; Syracuse, 31; Brown, 27; Stevens Institute, 26; New York, 19; Williams, 16; Fordham, 13; Swarthmore, 9; Haverford, 4; Johns Hopkins, 4.
Judging from the meets which the different colleges have held this year and from the records of the individual performers, first place seems likely to go to Harvard, Yale, or Cornell. Princeton, Pennsylvania and Michigan are closely matched for fourth place. There are a great number of unusually good men, however, among the entries from the smaller colleges, who may win a large number of points. The University team relies on seven or eight excellent performers to win the majority of Harvard's points, while Yale and Cornell have more evenly balanced teams. Looking at the three teams from this point of view, it seems as if Cornell and Yale would be weakened more by the performers from the smaller colleges, whereas Harvard, whose team is counting on first places rather than seconds and thirds, will probably not be materially affected. The points in each event will be: first place, 5; second place, 3; third place, 2; and 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 of only 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, 2nd, etc., where the final results will be posted tomorrow.
Time and Order of Events Today.
The program of events today in as follows:
TRACK EVENTS.
2.30--100-yard dash, trials.
2.50--880-yard run, trials.
3.10--120-yard hurdles, trials.
3.30--440-yard run, trials.
3.50--220-yard hurdles, trials.
4.10--220-yard dash, trials.
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