ADOPT METRIC SYSTEM IN THREE TRACK MEETS

Metric measurement of races and field events will be substituted for the yard system in the Yale, Princeton, and Intercollegiate track meets this spring, G. M. Fenollosa '33, manager of the Varsity track team and of the I.C.4A. meet, announced last night. The traditional yard measurement will be used in the Greater Boston Intercollegiate Track Meet, in the international meet with Oxford and Cambridge, and probably in the Dartmouth meet.

This change from the long-established custom of measuring college races in yards and miles and field events in feet was caused by the recent action of the I.C.4A. and the A.A.U. In March, 1932, the I.C.4A. voted to run the 1933 Intercollegiates on the metric system if the A.A.U. agreed to adopt the change. Last December the A.A.U. voted favorably on the project, the final decision being left to the athletic boards of the different colleges.

Both Yale and Princeton have informed Fenollosa that they are abandoning the old yard measure.

The trackmen held their first outdoor workout for the field events yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field. Spring practice will be formally organized this afternoon when all the Varsity and Freshman candidates meet at the Dillon Field House at 3.30 o'clock.