The New England Interscholastics will be held next Friday instead of Saturday, because of the Harvard-Pennsylvania ball game which is to be played on Holmes Field on the latter date. The events will number fourteen, being the regular inter-collegiate programme, except that the bicycle event will be limited to a one-mile race.
ANDOVER'S SPRINTERS.
The English High-School athletes are determined to win this meet. They have won every championship so far this year, and will make a strong bid to complete the season victors in every department. Their chances at the present writing seem much brighter than those of any other school. Worcester Academy, however, will have plenty of fire in its eye. Its backers claim to be sure of three firsts, which is a big bonus to begin with. Worcester is smarting under the poor showing made in the winter meet, and is sure to retrieve itself this spring. Andover, too, will send down a hot set of runners.
For the sprints the Worcester men count on Robinson, who can run in .10-1/5. But Kane of E.H.-S., who had his first experience in racing in the winter meet, is backed by his schoolmates to win the event. Owens of Newton, Mason of W.H.-S., Duffy of E.H.-S., Jones of Andover, Kennington of Dedham High, Seaver of Cambridge High, and Hersey of W.A., make a list that, with Kane and Robinson, probably includes the six starters in the final heat. This list will have to be enlarged to fit the 220. Boyce of Brookline High, who won the 150 at the Harvard open games early in May, runs with a beautiful stride and finishes strong, and is making a specialty of this game. Carleton of Hopkinson's is training for this event. His legitimate distance is the quarter; but a recent serious illness will prevent his getting into condition for that exhausting race, and he will probably confine himself to the 220 in hope of beating his old rival, Robinson. With Carleton in good form, this 220 ought to furnish an exciting race.
There are a dozen lads around Boston who can run the quarter in better than .55. In the interscholastic relay race at the Harvard games English High's winning team of Kane, Purtell, Hanson, and Emery averaged .54½. Emery has been selected to win this event for them Friday. To do it he will have to beat men like Badger of W.H.-S., Shirk of W.A., Clapp and Huntress of Hopkinson's, Garrett of Cambridge High, and Thompson of C.M.T.S. Thompson and Badger are the best of the lot, and with Emery ought to get the three places. The race will probably be run in one heat, as heretofore, although the field in the event, which is the prime favorite in New England, will be unusually large. Burke's record is not in danger, but the race is sure to be a pretty one.
Albertson of Worcester High will be out to win the half this year, and with Dadnum and Boyle of the same school will make a trio of exceedingly high-class performers. Hartwell of W.A., Burdon of Newton, Gaskell of Andover, if he is in condition, and Applegate of Cambridge High, ought to be well bunched at the finish. Purtell will not run this distance this year, but has assigned the task of beating Albertson to Hanson, who won the 600 so pluckily at the winter meet. If Porter of Chauncy Hall enters the half-mile, Hanson may find it hard to get better than third.