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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :-I have read with interest your editorial of this morning (Tuesday), on the subject of the tennis courts. The matter is one of the highest interest to a large, but I fear, somewhat decreasing number. But the fault with our system is chiefly in the courts and their position, and not in the present management of the association; for I know by experience in other places that the latter is capable of giving every satisfaction. But how can the game receive the attention it deserves while the only place in which to play it is Jarvis Field The courts there are without exception the poorest I ever saw and have the added disadvantage of being so near the foot ball grounds as to be continually surrounded by confusion. There is nothing to prevent the balls from escaping into the road at either side, and the muckers, the curse of the yard, are always on hand to distract the player. To crown all the courts are of turf and consequently unfit for use, for a turf court without the best care and on a poor foundation soil is bound to be a failure.

Allow me therefore to suggest a plan that will obviate at least a part of the difficulties. Let the management take off all the turf where the courts are and have the ground cleared of stones and rolled; this will give us earth courts, which are far better than any but the best turf courts, and more

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