Although the arrangements for our winter meetings are as perfect as one could wish in most respects, there is one feature in which the management could make improvement by following the lead set by the Tech. Athletic Club. On glancing over the programme at the meeting held on Saturday by that club, there was a feature which at once attracted the attention. It was that all the sparring was put at the end. The day was a ladies day. By placing all the sparring at the end, the gentlemen in charge gave ladies who do not care to witness exhibitions of the manly art an opportunity to retire without having missed any of the other games.

Why would not a similar arrangement be advisable at our second winter meeting. It is necessary to have sparing on that day, and ladies are only invited to attend it on condition that they witness several sparring encounters, together with the other games which they come to see. Should the Tech. arrangement of putting all the sparring at the close of the meeting, any timid ladies would not have to stay away on account of blood. True, the variety of the programme would be somewhat marred by this change, and so would the opportunities for very long rests between the bouts. But with plenty of entries in the two events, light-weight and feather-weight sparring, the time between bouts would be sufficient, if we may take the Tech. games as a criterion. There the hardest hitting and fighting occurred each time in the final rounds. The slight drawbacks to the change are more than counterbalanced by the advantages.