Crimson Golfers Oppose Williams And B.C. Today

A spring golf match in the East is usually a wet cold afternoon of trudging around brown fairways and grassless greens. Golf is a summer sport meant to be played under a July sun behind a slow foursome of businessmen on Men's day.

But the Harvard golf team never has such luck. Today they travel up to Williamstown, Massachusetts, for their second match of the season, against Williams and Boston College, and the weather remains true to form--low 50's with a good chance of rain.

After Florida

Every year after their first week of practice in Florida, Crimson golfers return to the North for about ten matches. The first few are played in temperatures slightly above freezing, the last eight in thundershowers that make the temperature irrelevant.

Although they practice on Brookline's famous Country Club, the team rarely gets to play on courses of equal caliber. Last week they went out against Amherst and Tufts on a course that had more grass on the parking lot than on the greens.

Occasionally the team meets good courses at the Eastern championships and the North Eastern Intercollegiates, but that is late in the season when even Harvard Yard has grass.

Double Trouble

The first and last week of golf are usually the only days of sunshine in a rainy season. In between, the Crimson must battle both the weather and the other team. Today's match at Williamstown should be one of the hardest of the early golf bouts because both opponents promise to be strong.