s have strong teams. Readers of
this department will remember that the Worcester Academy took second
place, with 141 points, at the in-door meeting in Boston last March, and
Andover won the Interscholastics in June last year. The programme of the
dual games will be the same as the Intercollegiate order of events, and
only three candidates will be entered from each school. Worcester's best
sprinter, Clark, has been ill, and will not run again this year, and so
Senn or Barker of Andover will have a better chance for the 100 and 220.
Barker, however, is inclined to be indolent, and is not careful or
regular in his training. Laing of Andover is pretty sure to win the
mile. He won that event in the Interscholastics last June in 4.32-2/5,
but as he is twenty-one years old this year, he is debarred from
competing on Holmes Field in June. This I.S.A.A. rule would not affect
his status in the Worcester-Andover games, however, and Laing will there
try to lower his record. Holt will take the shot event for Andover, and
Malby, his schoolmate, will probably get second. Holt should also win
the hammer throw. Lorraine of Andover will do no better than to secure a
place in the 440, which will be won by Judd of Worcester, if he runs.
But Judd may reserve himself for the half-mile, which he is sure to
take. As Andover has no good men in the jumps, Worcester should get 10
points or more there, and Johnson of Worcester will easily take the pole
vault, having a record of 10 feet 8 inches. Barker will give Hine a
close race over the low hurdles, and may win. Hine took the event at the
Interscholastics last year. These dual games will be an excellent thing
for the advancement of the sport, and I hope some of the other large
schools, situated at a distance from one another, will take up the idea
and arrange similar meetings.

A field meeting of Pacific Coast amateurs was held at the Olympic Club
Grounds, San Francisco, April 20th, and the school-boys who entered made
a very good showing. The games were held for the benefit of the
University of California team, now in the East, and the young athletes
of the A.A.L. compared very favorably with the men who have come on to
joust with Yale, Princeton, and Pennsylvania. Jackson of the Oakland
High-School won the mile run in 4 min. 38-3/5 sec., with Brown of the
University of California second. Brown led in the last lap until the
stretch, when Jackson spurted and won by the very narrow margin of ten