The Harvard University and Freshman track teams will start regular practice for the winter season next Monday, without the services of Coach E. L. Farrell, who is recuperating from an operation for appendicitis at the Brooks Hospital in Brookline.

All candidates will be asked to report between then and Christmas vacation, in order to get in condition for the coming events. The Knights of Columbus meet will be the first of the winter season, about three weeks after the vacation, in the Boston Garden on January 25. During the middle of December, there will be an informal indoor track meet.

The fall season just completed has been of entirely informal nature, coming to its conclusion with the annual handicap meet on Soldiers Field. In this event several promising University and Freshman candidates made excellent showings, some of them from scratch.

Among the runners winning without handicap were W. C. Rowe '30 who took the 110-yard low hurdles in 13 3-5 seconds and also the 220-yard dash in 24 seconds: N. P. Beveridge '32, who took the high jump, reaching 5 feet, 10 inches: Oscar Sutermeister '32, who pole vaulted 12 feet, 3 inches: F. J. Mardulier '30, who took the 70-yard high hurdles in 9 4-5 seconds: J. S. Marsh '32, who was victor in the javelin throw with a heave of 161 feet, 8 inches; and F. C. Fitts '33, who put the shot 43 feet, 4 inches.