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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...
...holes are dug at this season because other work is slack, and because when the ground is frozen on the surface and the frost does not go too deep, less damage is done to the lawns and turf, and the digging is scarcely less difficult than at another season...
...turf is in good condition and thoroughly dried out today, but the weather is threatening...
...talk in the Locker Building and a half-hour's signal drill in the Cage, but dissatisfied with the showing being made lately, Coach Haughton wound up the afternoon's work by staging a hard scrimmage on the field. The play was impeded by the thick mist and wet turf, but before it was stopped at 5 o'clock by utter darkness, every man was sent in to take part. No scoring was made, for the University team could not make consistent progress through the seconds' line, this being the only safe method of attack on the slippery field...
...Enwright '18 ran through signals with the team in the Cage, but was not trusted on the treacherous turf in the field. His injured ankle seems very slow in healing, and it is feared that an early return to the game would seriously endanger his final availability to the eleven...