HARVARD FAVORED IN I.C. 4-A. MEET TODAY

The University cross-country runners boarded the train for New York yesterday afternoon to enter the Intercollegiate American Amateur Athletic Association race over the Van Contlandt Park course this afternoon.

A perfect season was completed last Friday when the men beat. Doth Yale and Princeton in a triangular meet here Captain W. L. Tibbets. '26, has shown a consistent ability to cross the finish line well in the lead, with E. C. Haggerty a close contestant for the place. Both of these men have taken the first two places in every meet of this year, and promise an excellent showing in the intercollegiate run. R. G. Luttman '28 also has had an excellent season, with the exception of one off-week in the beginning of the year. Since then he has kept regularly in third place for Harvard.

Mikkola Praises Baths

Jakko Mikkola, University cross-country coach, expressed complete satisfaction with the condition of his men, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. When asked if he laid much credit to the Finnish Baths which have been tried out this year, he replied: "It is hard to pick any one point which may affect the success or failure of a runner, but there can be no doubt that Finnish baths tend to take away stiff ness in a man's joints and make the muscles supple, and these are two valuable assets to the men. I think the system should be permanently established here for Harvard runners."

The value of the Finnish bath as a conditioning medium was not appreciated by American athletes until Paavo Nurmi visited this country last winter. During his series of record-breaking performances on American tracks, Nurmi made use of Finnish baths in New York and Chicago, and when he came to the Harvard Stadium to make his great bid for the American mile record held by Norman Tabor, he visited the baths at Quincy, accompanied by Coach Mikkola.

264 Runners Are Elected

Twenty-three colleges and universities from all parts of the East have entered 264 runners for today's run, the seventh annual 1. C.A. A. A. A. meet. The other institutions to be represented this afternoon are Bates, Boston College, Colby, College of the City of New York, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Lafayette, Maine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Penn. State, University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, Princeton, Rutgers, Syracuse, Union, Williams and Yale.

Syracuse, which captured the honors in 1922 and 1923, is Harvard's most dangerous opponent in the coming event with such runners as Bell, who made a remarkable showing last year when he won the Freshman race; Gottlieb, conqueror of Nurmi in a handicap test last winter; and James Loucks. Pittsburgh, with only Corbett and Howell of its last year's victorious five available, appears to have little chance

Very little is to be feared from either Yale or Princeton, this year, especially since the Crimson decisively underscored them last week. Captain Smith of the Yale runners, who captured the individual title in record time last year, will be among the threats in the starting lineup. His early-season injury this year, however, has proved a heavy handicap to his running, and he has shown no remarkable come-back so far.

The University men will probably start is follows:

W. L. Tibbetts '26, E. C. Haggerty '27, R. G. Luttman '28, Peppins Portfilio '27, Edward Gordon '27, W. V. King '28, L. I. Novogrod '27, J. N. Watters '26, G. L. Stebbins '28, and H. R. Kobes '26.