Track Team Faces Powerful Field at West Point Today

Quarter-miler Cliff Wharton and sprinter Dean Dunlavey were the only additional entries yesterday as the Varsity entrained for West Point, where they have a formal cinder date with Army, Missouri, Dartmouth and Columbia this afternoon. Forty competitors, a manager, coach, and trainer made up the Crimson encourage.

Judging from reports filtering out from the Midlands, this year's Missouri track machine is fatter than a corn-fed hog. In the Drake Relays, their hurdlers ran 2-3-4 behind national champion Harrison Dillard, averaging 14.5 in the highs, 23 at in the lows. They are two and three deep in most of the other events, and as Coach Mikkola commented, "They're not coming east just for the train ride."

Army, of course, still holds enough of its wartime power to make things interesting for anybody, and Dartmouth and Columbia have specialists who may cut into the Harvard scoring where it hurts most--in the field events. Scoring will be on a 5-4-3-2-1 basis.

Today's contest will be the final "test" for the Crimson prior to THE meet this Saturday at New Haven. While the Varsity performs at the Point today, Freshman Coach Ed Flanagan will take his athletes north for a meet with Andover.