Winter Carnival at Mechanics Hall

An innovation in winter indoor track is planned by the track management to conclude this year's indoor work. A huge carnival will be held in Mechanics Hall on the evening of February 23, under the auspices of the Boston Athletic Association. This will be the biggest thing hitherto attempted in winter track work and will take the place of the carnival ordinarily held at the board track on Soldiers Field and in the Gymnasium. The accommodations in Cambridge have proved too inadequate for the yearly increasing number of entries and the track authorities have decided to expand.

The features of the meet will be the class relay races. A man, who wishes to have his name withheald, was offered the sum of $250, to be awarded as a scholarship to a needy pupil who is a member of the class winning the race. Fifteen men will run on each team, each man to run two laps, the race being run in two heats and the winners meeting in the finals.

Also the University 390-yard relay team will run against the Boston Athletic Association four in the last event of the evening.

Besides these special features of the carnival there will be held the regular handicap events, a list of which follows: 40-yard dash, 45-yard high hurdles, 45-yard low hurdles, sack race, running high jump, 12-pound shot-put.

Besides these events it is planned to have several bouts of wrestling, fencing, and an exhibition of dueling swords. The annual tournament in wrestling and fencing will be held in the Gymnasium during February, down as far as the semi-final rounds, but the semi-final and final rounds for the University championship will be held the night of the carnival in Mechanics Hall. Not only will all the events be open to all men in College, "H" men included, but students in the graduate schools will also be eligible.