Local track fans who last year were treated to the Heptagonal Games, the Yale dual meet, and the New England Relays, will find that the Cambridge home schedule is slightly reduced this spring. In addition to the Dartmouth dual meet next Saturday, the only other home attraction will be tomorrow's New England Relays in Harvard Stadium.

Started as a hopeful attempt by area track coaches interested in increasing fan interest in the sport, the meet made a rather inauspicious beginning last spring. The meet not only was run rather poorly, but it was almost a complete secret to the public. As a result, what could have been a glorious track opener was a drab afternoon.

But this year, a determined publicity campaign by Harvard's Hank Johnston, plus an interesting field, plus the meet's prominence on an uninteresting home schedule, all lead to the meet's unquestioned attraction.

Tomorrow there will be no less than 17 events on the schedule, including freshman races and field events. In addition to the collegiate contests there will be a special Pre-Olympic A.A.U. hammer throw, featuring Hal Connolly, former Boston College star.

The best races tomorrow should be the sprint relays, in which Yale, possessing a great trio in Hank Thresher, Larry Reno, and John Haipern, will be racing against the clock, trying to get ready for next week's Penn Relays, and the shuttle hurdles relay, in which Harvard, led by Bob Rittenburg and Joel Cohen should also be close to a local record.

All told, there are some 14 colleges entered in the meet, which is scheduled to begin about 12:30. The races, everything from a 440-yard relay to a four-mile relay, will be the most exciting, but probably the most interesting event from a tract point of view is the college hammer throw, entered by Yale's Stew Thompson and Tom Henderson; Don Selfert of Brown; Nat Baker of Boston University; and John Morefield of M.I.T. Thompson is the favorite, but it should be close.