A LATE START.

Owing to the lateness of spring, athletics have been seriously handicapped. Whereas last season the baseball and track teams were on the turf by the twenty-fourth of March, the baseball team was out yesterday for the first time this year, and the track team still waits for dry ground. Likewise the crew has been delayed just about a month in its start from the Cambridge boat houses. On account of the impossible condition of the field, it is doubtful whether the football team will be able to start spring practice before the vacation. If not, spring training will probably have to be cut to a week on account of warm weather. Some critics of Harvard sports say that the seasons are generally too long, and that the men suffer from over-training. This spring's results will show just how much soundness there is in this argument. In any case, the crew and baseball team will be handicapped for their first contests, which come in the spring vacation.