Editors Daily Crimson:

Although it is somewhat premature to bring matters connected with the winter meetings of the H. A. A. to your notice, nevertheless I have a suggestion to make which, if carried out, will need some time for its successful consummation. It is on this account that I venture to bring, through your columns, this subject to the notice of the managers of the winter meetings thus early.

The rule pursued in these meetings in regard to the question of sparring, is, I believe, to make the class known as the featherweight, include all men whose weight is, or under, 125 pounds. To a person unaccustomed to the ring a matter of four or five pounds in the difference in weight of the two contestants is of no moment. A difference of a few pounds in the weight of two heavyweights would not be considered of much importance; but this disparity in the case of featherweights is of the greatest moment. The difference in the comparative strength of the blows delivered by the 125-pound man and those of a man weighing but 118 pounds can hardly be over-estimated. As this is recognized as a truism by all sparrers, many men in past years have been deterred from entering our meetings on account of the very inequality. If I am not mistaken, there was an attempt made last winter to institute a class composed of those whose weight did not exceed 117 or 118 pounds, to be known as the bantam-weights. The attempt falling through, the originators refused to enter a ring where the contestants would be so unevenly matched.

If, now, the H. A. A. should make the announcement of the establishment of such a class as I propose, it would undoubtedly call out men who have no intention of entering in the feather-weight contests. To have this plan a success, the announcement should be made in the near future, in order that the men may have an opportunity of training, which is an essential part of the duties of a successful sparrer.

UPPER-CLASSMAN.