The first Winter Meeting occurs today, and bids fair to be more interesting than in former years, on account of the transfer of part of the sparring to this day. This meeting is sometimes tedious, on account of the great number of events on the programme. The only way to make these events interesting is to make them as short and exciting as possible.

The sparring will be good, as it always is, if there is no slugging shown. And we would like to beg the crowd to refrain from any ejaculations when a well-aimed and telling blow takes effect. These customary expressions of approval are entirely out of place, and are apt to "rattle" the contestants.

Everything, we believe, has been done to make this meeting interesting, and it only remains for the stewards to see that the events are called promptly and carried out successfully.