EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - I was considerably surprised when my attention was called to the first editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON of yesterday, Thursday, criticising the management of the lacrosse team for not keeping up practice during these weeks of open weather. Having taken an active interest in the different branches of athletics, and among them lacrosse, since entering the university, I wish to defend the course of the lacrosse management, and show that it is a perfectly reasonable one.

The writer of your editorial appears to know little of the state of athletics at Harvard and should not have attempted to fill space in the paper by speaking of a subject about which he is so poorly informed. He says: "Now that foot-ball has been, at least for a time, laid by," etc., and then complains because the lacrosse men do not step in and fill up this gap in the circle of sports. The fact is that foot-ball has not been laid aside even for a time, as the gentleman would easily see if he took the trouble to stroll out to Jarvis Field any afternoon. There are as many men actively engaged in playing foot-ball as there ever were, and it would be impossible for two games, lacrosse and foot-ball, to go on at the same time on the same piece of ground. The lacrosse management knowing this, do not attempt to interfere with the foot-ball men who have a prior claim to the field at this season of the year; but in the spring, when Jarvis is at their disposal, they will attempt to bring out all the lacrosse talent at Harvard from which to form a team which shall be a worthy successor to the champion twelve of 1885.

DUFFER.