EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- I cannot understand why the base-ball management has neglected to take up the excellent suggestion made by one of your correspondents last week, about a petition for the removal of the prohibition on professional practice-games. This neglect is not very complimentary to that management, considering the vital importance of this matter. I fail to see how we can talk about indifference in the University at large when one of our management is so slothful and indifferent.

I speak strongly: because I feel, and everybody else feels, that our athletics are very critical this year-that our chances are very uncertain as yet, and that we must leave no stone unturned. I have heard many men express the desire that this petition be started, and I am sure that everybody would subscribe. The best way to go about would be the method employed in the prayer petition. At any rate the base-ball management, if it cares anything for the nine's success, must wake up and go to work on this matter, and at once, too, for we have only about a month. If it will only make the start it will find plenty of willing helpers. '88.