At present Keene Fitzpatrick, coach of the Princeton track team, will make no statement as to the prospects, but the winter indoor season should be evidence enough that the team this year will be one of the best that Princeton has ever had. Captain Stevenson, Conger, Taylor and Johnston, who made up the relay team, Thompson, Massey, Huhn, and Hills, a Freshman, are some of the men who did well during the winter.
The Tigers will be well represented in the 440, hurdles, high-jump, broad-jump, shot-put, and hammer, but the other events are at present rather uncertain. Coach Fitzpatrick has not been able to discover any exceptionally promising men for the javelin or discus throws, which events were recently added for intercollegiate competition, but he is developing new material and expects to be able to put some good men on the field.
Prospects for the dashes are exceptionally promising even though Lourie is the only man back from last year's short distance runners. In one of the best 100-yard races of his career, Lourie, at Exeter, barely defeated C. H. Wansker '23, the present University sprinter who was then running for the all-Boston Interscholastic team, in the fast time of ten seconds flat. McKim and Liebman, both from last year's Freshman team will put up good cmpetition for places in these events. Ford and Scarlet, substitutes from last year's varsity team, are also eligible. McKim, who was the selection for the 100-yards in the Oxford-Cambridge-Princeton-Cornell meet last summer, and placed third after a bad start, was also the national interscholastic champion for 220-yards two years ago.
The quarter mile looks like the best hope for Princeton with Captain Stevenson, who is the National A. A. U. champion, Hitzrot, captain of the 1924 Freshman team, Johnson and Lambert competing. In the Intercollegiates, held indoors on March 11th, Stevenson did some good running and turned up at the finish in 49 2-5 seconds while the other three men average around 50.
Strength In Hurdle Entries
Princeton will maintain its tradition of strength in the hurdle entries this season with Massey, Taylor, Thompson, and North as the chief entries. Massey is the metropolitan champion and Thompson is the national A. A. U. all-round champion. Lourie has specialized in the sprints and the broad-jump at Princeton and may be called upon to run in the high hurdles, as he performed brilliantly in this event at Exeter. North is also entered in the high jump with Trop and Brumder, both of whom have done about six feet. Lourie, Gray and McKim will all compete in the broad jump. Lourie has been credited with 23 feet and is considered to be one of the best broad-jumpers in Eastern colleges.
Thompson, Spaulding and Barclay are the shot put stars, while Baker and Emery are the stellar hammer men. Baker, guard on the football team, is especially dangerous as he has a record well over 150 feet. The pole vault looks weak at present, but either Paul or Maynard may show up well, although they have had little experience.
The schedule contains five meets beside the interscholastic tournament on May 13th. After the southern trip of April 15th the Tigers will enter the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival at Philadelphia on April 28th and 29th. A week after the Orange and Black team meets Yale on May 6, the University will go to Princeton for the final dual meet of the year, but Princeton will come to Cambridge on May 26 and 27 for the Intercollegiates.