To the Editors of the Crimson:

Will you permit me through your columns to make an inquiry about the freshman nine? I should like to ask why they have no regular coach. Here they have been out of doors for a month and nobody has been out to give them any steady instruction. They have for a captain a man who has no practical experience in the game, who therefore is not qualified to coach the team. Take the combination of circumstances and the '97 nine is the weakest freshman team within the experience of any undergraduate. On Tuesday they just barely got a victory over the Roxbury Latin School nine, which is weaker by far than the team from that school which was defeated by the Cambridge High and Latin School last year, with the score 30 to 1 in five innings. Wednesday afternoon the freshmen were defeated by the Somerville High School, the weakest team in the interscholastic league. If the Harvard freshmen hope to make a good showing in the game with the Yale freshmen, how are they going to do it, as things are now? The prime cause of all the trouble is that nobody has been appointed to coach the freshmen regularly. I understand from those competent to know what sort of material there is in the freshman class, that several experienced players have not been given a fair chance this whole spring. With a good coach such a mistake could not happen.

Even if the 'varsity captain has no particular interest in the freshman team this year, would it not be for the interests of future 'varsity baseball to give the young and new players thorough instruction at the very beginning of their career in college baseball? Is not this neglect a direct injury to Harvard's baseball hopes?

I wish to say that I have no personal interest. I am not acquainted with a single candidate past or present.

SENIOR.