Pencil Gives Harvard-Yale Margin Over British Team

HAA tub-thumper Hank Johnston released a from chart on the Harvard-Yale, Oxford-Cambridge track teams yesterday, and according to the statistics, the Americans should win when the two squads renew their traditional series in the Stadium a week from Monday.

Past performance figures (only first places will count in the scoring) give Harvard-Yale an edge in the pole vault, high jump, shot put, 100, mile, 880, and 220 low hurdles; the Britishers appear superior in the 440, 220, broad jump, two mile, and 120 high hurdles. No times are available for speculation on the 440-yard sprint relay.

More will be known about the capabilities of the Oxford-Cambridge team after its meet today at Princeton, where it goes against a combined Princeton, Cornell squad. Varsity Coach Jaakko Mikkola predicts this will be a close meet, as will the one here next week. "The Englishmen are good," he pointed out yesterday. Jaakko singled out quarter miler Angus Scott, sprinter John Wilkinson, and miler Roger Bannister as particularly outstanding.

Fastest for a European

"Wilkinson ran the 100 meters in 10.5 at Paris in 1947," he reported, "and that was the fastest time made in the event by a European sprinter. If it had been 100 yards, his time would probably have been down around 9.8."

Scott, who doubles in the 440 and 880, can also cover the ground. He has run the quarter in 48.8 and holds the British Army 400 meter record. "They say he has a very strong finish," Jaakko reports.

May Run Under 4:10 Mile

Jaakko reserves his special praise for Bannister. "Why, that mile here between Bannister and George Wade of Yale will be one of the best of the whole intercollegiate season," he predicted yesterday. "Wade is the kind of a runner who needs to be pushed, and I think both of them will go under 4:10, so you can see what a race it should be."

As for the Harvard's five entries (Yale has 19), a first place is fairly unlikely. Freshman Bill Geick (broad jump), Charlie Durakis (high hurdles), and Dick Weiskopf (100), and varsity sprinter Harvey Thayer (220) are all number three in their events on the form chart, and John Cogan, the Crimson's other varsity representative, is number four in the two mile.

Yale Men Favored

Commencement crowd or no, Yale will probably do the scoring for the Americans. Wade, pole vaulter, George Appel, the Hipple twins in the high jump, and shot putter Jim Fuchs are the Eli headliners.

Fuchs put the 16-pound shot 56 feet, 11 1/2 inches last week in the New York Met meet. Michigan's world record-holder Chuck Fonville is the only athlete who has bettered that distance. Appel has vaulted 14 feet, Wade has run a 4:13 mile, and the freshman Hipple twins, who high jump in their bare feet, generally get up around 6 feet, 2 inches.