ANNUAL INDOOR TRACK MEET

The object of a new indoor intercollegiate track meet as suggested by the executive committee of the I. A. A. A. A. has been explained the by New York Times, from which the following article is taken.

Mr. G.K. Kirby, Chairman of the Advisory Committee, of the Intercollegiate Association, upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee of the association has recently announced a proposition which desires for group tests as embodied in probably the most important of all the proposed the amendments to the I. A. A. A. A. by-laws which will be submitted at the annual meeting Feb. 28 in New York City.

Amendments to By-Laws.

The principal of these provides for an indoor athletic meeting, and in substance reads as follows:

The association shall hold each year on the evening of the first Saturday in March an indoor athletic meeting. The object of this meeting shall be, not for the purpose of ascertaining the champion member of the association, or of awarding a championship of championships, but for the purpose of bringing together each year in some central locality the athletes and their supporters in an athletic and social gathering.

The eligibility for contestants in this meeting shall be the same as that for contestants in the annual track and field championship meeting.

There shall be no championship cup for this meeting, and, except for the purpose of ascertaining the prize-winning teams in the various events, there shall to no points scored on any basis for or against the members of the association competing therein.

There shall be prizes or tokens given to all members of teams winning first, second and third, places. These prizes, however, shall not be of the same design as those given at the annual track and field championship meeting, although they shall have thereon a reproduction of the Borghese gladiator, the insignia of the association.

New Team Events

The first new articles will provides for the following events in which no members of the association will be permitted to have more than one team to be form the same member of the association: Relay race, teams of five men, each man to run 150 yards. Relay race, same provisions, 300 yards per man. Relay race, 500 yards per man. Relay race teams of four men each man to run 1,000 yards. Relay race team of four men in relays of 200 yards, 300 yards, 500 yards and 1,000 yards.

Running high jump between teams of five men. Same provisions as to eligibility as in relay events, and points to be scored as in the cross-country runs, namely, first place to count 1; second 2; and so on up the scale.

Pole-vault and 16-pound shot-put, with similar conditions as those governing the high jump as to eligibility, scoring, etc.

The distances set down for the different relays are intentionally unusual, the motives being to bring men into competition at distances which will not enable anyone to have superiority over another at one of the well established distances now competed for at the intercollegiate championship outdoors.

It is also proposed to amend the rules which govern the awarding of the championship cup for the annual field meeting, so that a first place shall count 5 points, a second 4, third 3, a fourth 2 and a fifth 1 point.

In his statement in regard to the proposed amendments Mr. Kirby in part said: "Since the time of the organization of the Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. in 1876, when first places alone counted in the score of the championship meeting, and especially during the period covered by the countries by the Columbia. Indoor meets, the spirit of the athletic contest, and especially of the training for competitors therein, has been gradually changing from the exclusive efforts to produce one or more stars to an effort to produce a well-rounded team of many good competitors, and to encourage a more general participation in athletics by all the students.