New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-11
new FIXTURES
FORT. c. A. A. A. A.
TRACK MEET
Committee May Drop One
Lap Dash and a Re
lay Race.

There will be material changes in
the list of events for the second an
nual track and field meet of the Inter
collegiate Association of Amateur
Athletics Of America, according TO the
plans formulated AT a meeting Of the
executive and advisory committees OF
that organization. which met at the
Waldorf Astoria yesterday afternoon.
The committees recommended 10 the
major body the elimination Of some
and the substitution Of other events.
These will be acted upon in a special
meeting of the I. c. A. A. A. A. called
for November 10 in Boston. the night
before the intercollegiate cross
country run. Other recommendations
included the strengthening Of che
executive committee from four to six
members and changing the duties Of
the treasurer.
Romeyn Berry, Of Cornell, again will
manage the indoor meet, which will be
held in Madison Square Garden On
March 4. The one lap relay, which
last year resulted in so many spills,
was eliminated and a dash substituted,
and a team race of twenty-four laps
was added TO the programme. The
total changes show that whereas last
year there were six relays in the
meet there will be five, a team race,
twenty-four lap team race and a
straightaway high hurdle race.
If the amendments 10 the bylaws
proposed by the executive committee
are adopted the events of the indoor
meeting will be as follows:
Track events-A relay wherein each
man runs two laps; a relay wherein
each man runs three laps; relay
wherein each man runs six laps; re-
lay wherein each man runs twelve
laps; medley relay race wherei.. the
first man runs four laps, the second
two laps. the third six laps and the
fourth eight laps; a team race of TWEEN
ty-four laps 20 be scored by the same
methods used in 'cross-country run
ming; a straightaway dash; a straight
away high hurdle race.
Field events Shot put, high jump
and pole vault.
All Of the track events will be for
teams Of four men each. All of the
races around a turn will be on track
approXimating as nearly as possible
ten laps to the mile. In Madison
Square Garden this will be exactly
ten laps.
The dash will be the longest distance
nOL 10 exceed luU Naiuh, lHhl can u
conveniently run straightaway in the
hall where the meeting is held-sey-
enty yards in Madison Square Gar
den
The hurdle race will be at the long
est distance not TO exceed l2O yards
seventy-fve yards in the Garden.
In both the dash and the high hurdle
race no college may start more or less
than four men. In each preliminary,
semi-fnal and final heat, first place
counts 4 points. second 3 points. third
2 points and fourth point. The team
with the highest number of points Is
the winner. In extra heats 10 elm
mate odd men no points will be scored.
The field events will be run as they
were last year. They'will be for teams
/ Of five men each. The team with the
/ highest average performance wins
Those who attended tie meeting were:
President Walter p. Pfeiffcr. Column
/ bia; Secretary William II. Draper. jr..
I New York University; Treasurer d. VI.
/ Lake, Princeton: executive cOmmi tee,
Frederick p. Clement, ir, Harvard;
Paul F. Sanborne, Cornell; A. II.
/ Bunker. Yale; {. ". y. Townsend,
/ Pennsylvania; advisory committee,
Gustavus r. Kirby. Columbia. Thorn
ton Gcrrish. Harvard. and Romeyn
] Berry. Cornell.