COLUMBIA ATHLETES.

This year Columbia will make a much greater attempt than ever before to put a strong team into the field for the Mott Haven games. Her crews have always been good ones, and though her 'varsity eight has not met either Harvard or Yale for several years, her freshman crew can alwaysbe relied upon to make a close race for first place.

A new impetus was given to athletics at Columbia last June when the 'varsity crew defeated Cornell and Pennsylvania on the Hudson. In every branch of sport at Columbia the influence of this race has been felt. It has been considered best by W. H. Fearing, Jr., and Trainer Fred Stone, not to put the candidates for the Mott Haven team into training until after the mid-year examinations, which will end on February 8, but they have already singled out the men who, by their records in the past, should show up well in their respective events.

The bicyclists will be perhaps the most prominent on the track. The college has many excellent riders. There are Goodman and Ottman, and Dickie, who won the two-mile handicap from scratch within two seconds of the intercollegiate record time at the fall games; W. H. Bird, a N. Y. Athletic Club man; Williams, why rode second in the Princeton-Columbia intercollegiate meet last spring; George Ruppert; Morrill, who won his heat in the intercollegiate race two years ago, and Captain Fearing, who scored Columbia's only point in the '95 intercollegiate meet. Besides these there are a good many less prominent riders who will probably come out during the coming months. Owing to the fact that there are such a number of good men, the competition for positions on the track team will cause the utmost rivalry, and this of course will produce the best results. It is likely that five points will go to Columbia in the two-mile race at the Mott Haven games, and in the dual games with Princeton eight points are regarded as a sure thing.

Another intercollegiate event which Columbia men are counting upon is the running high jump. S. A. W. Baltazzi, who jumped second to Sweeney in the international games, and who has cleared 5 feet 11 inches, is their best man. Backing him up for the places are Burke '96, J. D. Pell '99 and Forman '99, each of whom is good for 5 feet 6 inches. For the broad jump there are Clark '97, Burke '96, and N. G. Bijur '96-all twenty feet men.

In the runs Columbia has some strong men. At the mile, R. H. Bacon '96, W. W. Lightipe '98, F. Fuller '97, R. L. Eaton '98, J. L. Armstrong '98, and A. B. Tappin '99, the latter last year's interscholastic champion, are each capable of covering the distance under 4.40. At the half, Kingsley, has a record of 2.03.25. The quarter mile is another event in which Columbia should show well with such men available as G. T. Kirby '98, A. E. Schaff '99, N. G. Bijur '96, and Chatain '96, each good for at least 54s. At the 220 and 100 yard dashes are Clark '97, Caswell '98, Moffit '99, the Lawrenceville sprinter, Underhill and Miller, the champion of the Pacific coast colleges.

Hunz Von Baur '99, S. H. Bijur '97, and J. D. Pell '99, will represent Columbia in the hurdles.