We are glad to learn that already some of those who hope to compete this year at the Polo Grounds have already begun to get into condition. The competition there is growing year by year greater and greater, and a college champion now if he were to enter in the amateur championships would be fairly sure of being among the first three in his event. Thus as the competition increases so must the previous training be more and more careful.

Yale and Princeton are making every effort to win this year and it will be necessary for us to put forth all our energies and enter a large and powerful team if we mean to carry off the cup. To be sure there are one or two events which we won last year and which can be considered, if all goes well, more or less certainties this year, and those who did well last year can be relied on to train faithfully this year again. Yet confidence in winning certain events should not lead us to think we have any certainty of getting the cup and that there is no need of training new men. There are several events, which we have sometimes won and sometimes lost during past years, some of which we must win next May in order to win the cup. Unfortunately our best athletes in these particular events have graduated, so that for the mile run, the broad and pole jump and the shot and hammer, we have, at present, no one as good as last year. All these events need long and careful preparation and constant practice. We are therefore much surprised that the Athletic Association has not taken any steps as yet in regard to helping and urging on those interested in these events. Of course a trainer, if we had one, would do much of this work and would take much trouble off the hands of the Athletic Association. But 'till we get one the Association must do a great deal of tiresome work in getting men to train. As far as we know, though there are several gentlemen in college who understand how to put the shot, none of them have as yet done anything in preparation for this year's events, nor do we know of anyone who has been practicing the pole jump. These events are not easy ones-they need steady application to succeed in them. No one can become a champion in pole jumping by only a few weeks work. The Athletic Association, therefore, we think, should take immediate steps towards our being properly represented in these events next year at the Polo Grounds.