The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
NEW FEATURES FOR
COLLEGIATE MEET
Real >prints Promised for In
door Games in the
Garden.
UrRDLES ARE INCLUDED

Smoother. more even, better regulated
aud harner contests are promised for
rho second annual indoor i~ntercollegt-
ate games II the changes made In the
,roprammc yesterday by the executive
and advisory committees are approved
a, A spccial meeting Of the I. G. A. A.
"A. and there is no doubt that they will
no The committees met at the Waldorf
,s,ori, and decided on many alterations
n the character n running OF the
events to be held in Madison Square
Garden on March 4. These will become
,nerstiya when passed as amendments
n IN. by-lnws at a special meeting to
he held November 10. the eve Of the
running Of the college ~cross-country
championship at Boston.
In outlining the new programme the
.dea Of team competition has been re-
tanned In its entirety and the organizers
have proited by the experience OF the
ars, meeting. which. though successful.
was largely experimental. Also the en-
couragement of the mediocre athlete
will lie continued and so far as is pos
sIble he will be made to feel that he has
the same share In the glory achieved by
his college as the top man of the team.
who i- bent on establishing record
BY measuring the distances OF the
races in laps instead Of yards the work
Of the officials will he made easier. the
competitors will be less liable to confu-
sion and the spectators will be kept bet
ter Informed az to the progress OF the
competitions. Above all the committees
have developed a scheme by which the
short distance races will be really sprint
races and not scrambles around a cir
JUS track with the race won over night
by the team which grabs the pole po-
sit.on In the draw. The new scheme
also allows the hurdlers to participate,
which was impracticable under the
method adopted at the initial meet.
The inclusion OF s~traightaway dashes
for sprinters and hurdlers is therefore
the most radical and important de-
yelopinent, and II took some ingenuity
to devise means to accomplish this I'M
provement and still retain the team
incentive. In the Garden the distances
II these dashes will be seventy yards
for the sprinters and seventy-fve for
the hurdlers. In case the meet is trans
ferred to any other hall there Is an
elastic provision which calls for the
dash to be- at the longest distance, not
TO exceed 100 yards. that can be rom
y~eniently run, n the hurdle Is like
wise restricted to a distance not ex-
,eeding 800 yards.
40 college will he allowed to enter
more than four men in these events and
points will he distributed in the running
II all the heats. In each preliminary
mi-fnal and in the final heat first
,lrt VIII count I. second 3. third 9 and
rh !. The team with the highest
7hnr " points will he declared the
ntr Ia extra heats to eliminate odd
20 points will be scored. The idea
90 a practical one on PAPER and
D 20 crack sprinter may win all his
h'ats the best he ran score will
pc nts. and this may be easily
% ONE by consistent work on the
4 two or more members OF another
1t the meet in the Garden last March
distances were fixed by the bylaws
wards and tn avoid confusion by
TrG the relays at different points
w.. necessary to lay nut two tracks
: has been obviated by making the
1.tau.e II each race TO he run around
'r, track consist of Il certain number
Il laps, In future all relay teams will
h' made W of four men n the dis
tarcts to be run by cach IA will vary
rom the shortest race of two laps e
he longest Of lively" laps. In h Gar
len the track IL ten laps to the mile. Sc
that In the short ace the men will rur
a fifth Of a mile and In the longest they
viii travel a mile and a Nth.
Another departure is the addition Of
a team race, which will give the cross
country men and long distance run
ners a chance To distinguish themselves
The distance will he twenty-four laps
and the scoring will be on the same
basis as that OF the cross-country
championship An Improvement In thu
conditions Of the medley race also ha
been made ANA the sprinters will HI
placed In the second relay. so that there
viii he less chance of "A mixup. Tht
weight events provided the most salts
factory feature Of the opening indoor
meet and will he retained withou'
ohanEe.
The events selected are
TRACK EVENTS.