When thought is given to the class baseball series of this year, it becomes plain that something must be done, else the series in future years will amount to nothing. To be sure, circumstances were this year exceptionally unfavorable. The bad weather and the fear that the games would have to be played on a very poor diamond delayed the work of the teams, and the lack of grandstands on Jarvis cut down the attendance at the games played there. Inevitably, interest in the series as a whole has suffered.

If good diamonds on Soldiers Field are made ready for the use of the class nines next spring, these exceptional hindrances will, partially at least, be removed. Soldiers, however, is so distant that large attendance at the games could not be expected, and the decisive games, if none others, ought to be played on Holmes Field. The 'varsity mangement would undoubtedly be willing, if it were made possible, to arrange its games so as to provide for this.

And yet more than these changes are needed to put the series on a firm basis,-there needs to be a change in the attitude of spectators. If the farce element is retained, we think that the series are doomed ot run themselves out in a short time. The farce kills the sport; it lowers the standard of play and lowers also the position of the games in the eyes of college men so that the spur for hard, serious practice is blunted. The downward tendency grows constantly stronger, It means that in a short time the series will have no excuse for existence.

We think that the series are too valuable to be allowed to go to ruin in this way. They do good to the men on the teams, they give needed practice to the freshmen, and they develop 'varsity material. It must never be forgotten that under the new rules, the 'varsity will practically have to be made each year from new men in the University and from the players on the class nines. Are not the games important enough to be taken seriously?