Bingham Award Goes to Baker

Senior track standout Jim Baker was awarded the William J. Bingham Award--Harvard's highest athletic honor--last night at the senior letter-winners banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston.

Baker, the wiry long-distance runner and cross country captain, became the first foreign student ever to win the Bingham award. His home is in Northfleet, England.

The award is presented each year by the Harvard Varsity Club to the athlete who is voted to have made the most outstanding contribution to Harvard as a student and an athlete.

Last year's winner was Bob Corris, a three-year champion in the breaststroke and individual medley on Harvard's swimming team.

In last week's Heptagonal championships, Baker won both the mile and two-mile. He is the current University record-holder in the mile with a 4:02.2 clocking, recorded against Princeton on April 20.