Harvard will open its Spring track season this afternoon on Franklin Field, at the University of Pennsylvania, when Coach E. L. Farrell will send two quartets into action in the sprint medley and distance medley relays, against a field including the strongest Eastern track teams, gathered for the first test of the season at the 37th annual Quaker City relay carnival. Record will compete in the 120-yard high hurdles.

Record and Dodge will run the furlong distances in the sprint medley, Kollmyer the quarter, and Cobb the half. "This race will be a gamble," Farrell stated yesterday; "Penn will be strong." Shea, Northeastern star who broke the college 440-yard record last week with a 50 2-5 second time, will run on the Huskies' sprint medley four. M. I. T. will have only one veteran, Jewett, on its quartet.

Crimson chances in the distance medley are "as good as anybody else's," Farrell predicted. Dodge will take care of the quarter, Hallowell the half, and Fox the three-quarter distance, with Cobb as anchor man. Record will meet strong competition in the 120-yard high hurdles from Beard of Alabama and Sentman of Ohio. The Ohio star was a winner at the National Championships.

Tomorrow the Crimson will compete in the one- and four-mile relays, and will be represented by Sutermeister in the pole vault; Upton in the discus; and Kidder and Finlayson in the hammer throw. Penn's mile quartet, which broke the world's record at the I. C. 4A are heavy favorites in that race. Hallowell, Cobb, Fobes, and Estes will also face a fast Penn team in the four-mile event.