LIBBEY AND BATES CAPTURE NEW ENGLAND CHAMPIONSHIPS

K. P. Libbey '24, captain of last year's track team, and H. N. Bates '25 reached the finals in the pole vault and 440 respectively in the Olympic tryouts. Although they were eliminated in the final round, each won the New England championship in his specialty during the summer.

In the National Championships, which were held early in September at East Orange, N. J., the Boston Athletic Association relay team on which Bates was running anchor, won the mile and placed second in the 880 and the two-mile. Bates also took a fourth in the Junior National Championship 440. Libbey was defeated in the senior pole vault by E. E. Myers '2O, another former Green track captain, who at present holds the College pole vault record.