Track Athletics.

Training for the annual fall field games has now been going on for a week. There are never so many who train in the fall, but this year the number is rather larger than usual. Over seventy-five come out daily, and this number will be increased, now that Mr. Lathrop has announced his intention of being at the field in the afternoon. Very few of the men who were on the team last year will train this fall, but there are about twenty-five who did good work and will make strong candidates this year. There are also several good men from the preparatory schools.

Of last year's team, E. J. Holmes '96, H. W. Jameson '95, N. W. Bingham '95, G. C. Chaney '94, W. F. Garcelan, L. S., E. B. Hill '94, and Captain Wheelwright are at work and will compete in the games. Thirteen others are in college and will train in the spring.

From the preparatory schools came an unusually long list of aspirants, among them Blakemore, who captained the Roxbury Latin School team last year, Wesson, who won the interscholastic half, R. R. Hollister, who has won the Exeter-Andover mile for two years, his best record being 4 min. 49 sec., two bicyclists, Brown and Jones, the former with a record of 2 min. 23 sec., Southwick, who last spring broke Collamore's former record in the mile at the New York interscholastic games, running in 4 min. 52 sec., and H. L. Williams, who equalled Fearing's interscholastic record over the three-foot hurdles, 16 3-5 sec., Dwight from St. Paul's School, who has run the half in 2 min. 8 sec. There are also some other good men in college who have not come out as yet, C. J. Paine, Jr., from Hopkinson, with a record of 5 ft. 10 3-4 in., and Stickney, from Harvard School in New York, with good records in shot and high jump.

The freshman games will come probably on October 23, and the 'varsity games October 27.

There is a scheme on foot for giving up one or possibly all of the regular winter meetings and substituting open handicap games in Boston some time in February or March. It will be necessary to obtain the consent of the Athletic Committee, but hopes are entertained that a petition will be successful, as such games would greatly improve the financial standing of the association. The regular winter meetings have seldom netted any profits.