PLAYFAIR WINS FOR CRIMSON HARRIERS AS RECORDS FALL

Flashing to the front in the last hundred yards of the H-Y-P cross country meet. Captain Bob Playfair ghosted by Woodland of Yale to finish the course at Nassau in record-smashing, time, while his team-mates rolled out a 25-30 victory over Eli yesterday and a similar total for the separately scored Princeton duel.

This is the third consecutive year in which Playfair has taken the meet, making an all-time record for individual performance in the Triangular.

Channing of Harvard followed Woodland to the tape, while Henry Marcy of the Crimson harriers was edged out of fourth place by Princeton's Hogan, first of the Nassaumen to finish.

Frequent Waterloo

In previous years, Harvard has found the hilly course at Nassau a frequent Waterloo, as the flat lay-out along the Charles had given the Mikkolamen no preparation for the gruelling hill-and-dale affair of the Tigermen. This year, however, Coach Jaakko had his men working out on the Brookline Country Club roughs and fairways, building up a stamina which proved the winning factor for the race.

From the start of the Triangular Meet, the race was between Playfair and Woodland, with Channing, forcing his way to the front of the remaining pack for a Crimson third place. At the halfway mark, Playfair began to step up the pace, but Woodland gamely matched stride for stride with the Harvard captain, and when they entered the home-stretch, Woodland was in the lead.

With the tape a bare hundred yards away, however, Playfair surged by Woodland in a magnificent sprint. Increasing the gap with every stride, Harvard's captain broke the tape twenty-five yards ahead of his opponent, furnishing an almost precise duplicate of his victory over Bonthron in 1933, when Playfair overtook Princeton's ace runner some eighty yards from the tape, to lead the Mikkolamen to victory.