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Track Experts Busy Forecasting Find Yale Sure Winner Today But None Can Agree On Score

Elis Should Sweep Hammer Event

In the hammer throw, Yale is conceded its only clean sweep by the Harvard prognosticator. Harvard's only man of power is Berglund, whose inability to stay in the circle on the long throws rules him out as a serious contender for points in today's meet. The Yale scorers ought to be,--Earl, first, Luikin, second, and Eckart or Marting, third.

All the other field events may be viewed in a more rosy light. Mr. Barnett, in forecasting the meet from the Yale standpoint, overlooked the ability of Hyatt to come through in surprising moments in both the broad and the high jumps. And it is on this fact that the Harvard men, who remember Hyatt's winning high jump in the Yale meet last year, pin their hopes for several points. Gerould and Hyatt, then, both of Harvard should take the first two places in the broad jump, while Gifford of Yale will have to content himself with third place.

Yale has an impressive collection of broadjumpers. Comins is an easy winner, as his 23 ft. 73-4 in. jump in the Princeton meet would indicate. His team-mate, Weinecke, did over 22 feet in the same meet, but Harvard optimists are hoping that Hyatt will be able to come through with a jump which will beat that. In that case, Yale will get six points and Harvard three from this event.

In the shotput, the Yale and Harvard prophets agree, strangely enough. Both predict that Eastman will be first, Dunker second and Esselstyn of Yale third.

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Bench of Yale will win the javelin as his 184-ft. throw in the Yale meet with Pennsylvania three weeks ago is better than any thing that Coach Farrell's men can do. Kernan, however, will be able to take second for Harvard, and Greenidge, first place winner for two years, may be able to take third, although an arm injury has kept him from practicing for a dangerously long time.

The final event is the discus throw. Here it is hardly necessary to say that Carpenter will win, as he has been doing 140 feet regularly in practice, and on a great occasion like today, he may be able to rise to the 152 foot mark he set some weeks ago in the Virginia meet. Hallowell, another Harvard plate thrower can take second place, and Yale's third place will be won by Graf or McCoy.

Looking at matters in this light, Yale's score comes to but 71 points, while Harvard rises to 64 points. There is quite some difference between this result and the 95-40 total arrived at in New Haven. As a matter of fact, the true score today will probably be some where between these two estimates. Taking a mean average of the two scores, the real result of this afternoon's meet will be

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