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Schoolboy track enthusiasts look to see several records broke today, a thing which has not happened since 1914, when a new record of 174 feet in the hammer-throw was established by J. T. Murphy. The events in which new records are looked for are the 440-yard dash, the half-mile, and the broad-jump. The broad-jump, mark at present is 23 feet 3 inches, but William Comins of Worcester Academy has bettered this several times this season, and it is expected that he will be able to repeat tomorrow...
...Hammer-Throw Will Be Close...
...field events the University-Yale athletes made better marks Saturday than the Oxford-Cambridge men this winter in all but the hammer-throw Nokes of Oxford has a record of 143 feet in this event, while the winning throw by Hudson, the Eli performer, Saturday was only 139 feet, 8 inches. However, both Brown of the University and Cruikshank of Yale have bettered the above distances this spring, the former hurling the weight 144 feet, 6 inches against Penn State and the latter 144 feet, 7-10 inches against Princeton...
...Crimson runners should make their best showing in the sprints with Captain J. E. Merrill, H. W. Davis, T. W. Norris and S. A. Simmons as the fastest entries. Of the field events the 1924 men have an excellent chance for first places in the jumps and the hammer-throw. Malcolm Morse in the high and A. W. Dole in the board-jump have both out leaped the best Eli men all season, while R. L. Raymond has equaled Esselsyn of Yale in the hammer-throw...
...outcome of the hammer-throw and the second and third places in the other field events are less certain. Cruikshank for the Elis will have a difficult task to outhurl Brown with the hammer. On the whole the seconds and thirds in the field events should be fairly well distributed with the University a slight favorite...