TRACK

The Penn Relays are looming on the horizon a week or so after we write, but at the moment the track team is in the same state of suspended animation as the others, with only time trials to remind the boys of the shape of things to come. Coach Ellie Noyes is entering his first outdoor season with a considerable nucleus of veteran performers who are good enough to give a creditable account of themselves in almost any company. The immediate problem is the choice of a group to represent the Green at Franklin Field for the Relays, a concourse which involves a few individual events, as well as dozens of relays of various shapes, distances, and forms.

For the individual events, Coach Noyes will probably take the following: Maurie McGrath (Navy) in the discus; John Hanley '49 in the two-mile; Joe Conley '46 in the high jump; and Sam Felton (Navy) in the hammer. There is a strong possibility that he will also take a shuttle-hurdle relay team on the sound assumption that, although there are no Earl Thomsons among the present timber-toppers, he has four men who can give a very adequate performance, something no other institution (with the perennial exception of the Army and Navy) can probably muster. Coach Noyes has four men who can do under 16 seconds in the high hurdles, with some of them down very close to 15 seconds —which is very good time indeed. The shuttle team will be picked from Al Snyder (Navy), Bill Kimball '47, Joe Conley '46, Dick Blackwood '49, and Dick Moersch '49. The first three will probably go, with the fourth man either Blackwood or Moersch.

The sprint and middle-distance relays are at the moment up in the air, with several able operatives currently in both but with insufficient quantity to make surefire teams. The leading sprinters are John Parks '48 and George Howard '47, while the quarter-milers are led by Dick Tracy '45 and Larry Goodman (Navy). Halfmilers find Ken Coyne (Marine) leading the pack, with Ken Hanlon '49, Dave Blair '44, and Phil Harmon '43 the best of a not particularly exciting group of milers. The two-mile, as indicated above, will be extremely well run by John Hanley '49, whose work in cross-country last fall marks him as one of the best distance runners to wear the Green in many , years. With the exception of the versatile Joe Conley '46 in the high and broad jumps, the rest of the jumpers and vaulters can stand considerable seasoning. Finally, in the weights (particularly the hammer, discus, and javelin) we should hold our own, with McGrath and Felton the most talented tossers of these lethal instruments. But we will know more in a few weeks.

THE BIG GREEN'S STARTING INFIELD snapped in front of the dugout with Coach Jeff Tesreau, whose unorthodox baseball garb tells the chilly story of early April practice. The players, left to right, are Al Gould, first base; Harry Durham, second; John Stockwell, shortstop; and Walt Snickenberger, third.