B.A.A. officials are currently dickering to add an extra four odd minutes--the shorter the better--to Heptagonal championships, which will be held at the Stadium this spring; the added event would be an invitational mile. Graduate student Josy Barthel, the Luxemburg Olympic champ and winner in the recent K. of C. and B.A.A. meets, would be a certain entrant, and invitations would also go out to milers like Wes Santoo of the University of Kansas, Fred Wilt, and Lon Truex.

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Soliders Field will be the scene of the Heps for the first times since 1947, when the ten eastern schools meet there on May 15. Also scheduled for the Stadium this spring is the New England Relays meet, which will take place three weeks before the Heptagonals.

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Seeing only the big Clasby publicity, few Crimson football fans realized that John Culver was also drafted by the N.F.L. last week. The powerful fullback was the choice of the Chicago cardinals in the 27th round.

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The 24-game baseball schedule recently announced by Athletic Director Thomas D. Booles Includes the first southern trip since 1949. Warm-up games with Fort Lee, the University of Virginia, and Quantice April 5-8 should help--Coach Stuffy Mcinnis get his team in shape during spring vacation.

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While head trainer Jack Fadden was packing up at Dillon Field House and heading for the Sarasota, Fiz., spring camp of the Red Sox, his Harvard assistant, Eddie Noonan, assumed the presidency of the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association.

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Harvey Love's varsity crew will race only one of its five regattas on the Charles River this year--its April 24 meeting with generally weak M.I.T. and Boston University. The schedule, as previously announced, Includes a race with the University of Wisconisn, to be held at Madison.

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Promoter Jack Kramer, in Boston for his troupe's annual tennis exhibition, complains, "We're delivering something better, but not doing so well financially." He adds, however, "Don't feel sorry for me." We don't, for Kramer made over $300,000 last year. And if worse comes to worst, he can always re-marry for money as did a brother pro athlete, Joe Dimaggio.

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Two other Crimson varsity tams will Join the baseball squad in the South during the spring vacation. The lacrosse team will have five games in six days, with Stevens Institute, the University of Maryland, the University of Virginia, Princeton, and Navy providing the opposition. The ten will play the remaining contests of its schedule of 15 after coming North.

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The tennis squad, which also has a 15-match schedule, will open with three contests below the Mason-Dixon line. Two meetings with the perennially powerful North Carolina team and one with Navy should give the varsity a stiff work-out.