THE SPORTING SCENE

The local opener for the varsity baseball team, scheduled today at M.I.T., has been postponed until May 7. Prospects for Saturday's game against Boston University on Braves Field are reported to be better, however, although the lacrosse match against Syracuse on the B-School Field may be postponed.

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One of the few undergraduate Olympic hopefuls will enter his semi-final try-outs next Saturday at Marblehead for the Monotype or Finn Class selection on the U.S. Sailing team. Tommy Townsend, a former Marblehead 110 champion, will face a field of 12 in Fireflies with the winner earning the right to represent the NEISA in the Olympic finals at Marion, Mass., on June 12-17. Strong winds this weekend could eliminate Townsend early in the competition, however, since he is extremely light (150 lbs.) for this class. The Melbourne Olympic yachting games will be held next November on Port Philip Bay.

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The first letters for J.V. hockey, as recommended by the Undergraduate Council, were awarded last week. Eighteen players including Captain Denny French received numerals, while the manager's award went to Howie Glaser. And for the first time in Harvard hockey history one player, Dick Allen, received a varsity letter and a J.V. leter. The J.V. team finished with a 5-5 record.

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The Ivy Football League, which will be playing a round-robin schedule for the first time next fall, will begin practice on Sept. 1, Pennsylvania athletic director Jerry Ford has announced. The opening League game will be between the two youngest Ivy rivals, Brown and Columbia, on Sept. 29. The Crimson will open its League play on Oct. 13, at Cornell. And, to remind you again, the Harvard-Yale game will be on Nov. 24, the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

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The Court Tennis delegation which entered the National Invitation Tournament at Aiken, S.C., last week after sweeping the Big Three match in New York, came home last Sunday with disappointing results. Numbers one and two on the team, Lucky Ludington and Dazzler Davis, were dropped out of the tourney in the first round by a famous father-son doubles combine, George and James Bostwick.

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To correct an erroneous impression from yesterday's paper: the varsity track team financed most of its vacation trip to Quantico with funds given by the Friends of Harvard Track. The players then supplied the difference between the expenses and the gift.