COACH PLANS TRACK MEDLEY

Early in August, the first events of the 1944 "Guadalcanal Decathlon" will get under way at Soldiers Field under the supervision of Jaako Mikkola, Crimson Varsity track coach, it was announced yesterday. This five event affair is open to all civilian, Army, and Navy students at Harvard, and particularly to those men out for track or cross country.

Starting off with a 26-foot rope climb, the test will last for the better part of a week and will include, in addition to the rope climb, a landing not descent, 100 yard dash, 100 yard obstacle course--"The Guadalcanal Special,"--and lastly, a 3.7 mile cross-country jaunt along the river bank. The "Special," feature of this endurance test, is a straight sprint over walls, ditches, and sandtraps, a submarine dive, and finally zig-zagging through a maze of sandtraps and runways.

Contestants may tackle the various events one at a time during the course of a week and points will be subtracted from each man's score for every second over the record for the event. At the end of the week, all five events will be totalled, and prizes will be awarded to the highest point winners.