Varsity Harriers Battle Tufts, Brown, Techmen

It took the Almighty six days to create heaven and earth and on the seventh day He rested. It has taken varsity track coach Bill McCurdy about the same time to assure himself that he has one of the best cross-country teams of his career and this afternoon, instead of resting, he takes it to Providence to prove that his creation will endure.

The occasion is a quadrangular meet with Brown, M.I.T., and Tufts on the Brown course in Providence. The meet will be the varsity's first of the season against more than one team, and first away from its familiar Franklin Park course. Starting time is approximately 3:45 p.m.

Seven days ago, with only two formal practices behind them, McCurdy's harriers outran Massachusetts. In defeating Boston University on Wednesday of this week, the team put on a performance which the coach described as "one of the best displays of running I have ever seen."

Despite the unfamiliar and unusually flat Brown course, the Crimson strategist is confident his runners can repeat these showings, and then some, against two teams--M.I.T. and Brown--which have lost two meets apiece, and a third--Tufts--which opens its season this afternoon.

The Jumbos will be paced by Bob Fawcett, one of the top distance men in New England, but are otherwise generally inexperienced. Brown's team is young and can't match the Crimson's depth. The Bruins have already lost to Connecticut and Yale. And M.I.T. has trailed both Dartmouth and B.U. to the finishes of its two contests.

A flat, hard course will favor Crimson speedsters Dick Wharton, Jim Cairns, Al Wills, and Phil Williams.