To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Last Saturday's game with Dartmouth showed quite conclusively that Harvard needs a cheering section for her baseball team, and needs it before the Princeton game comes along. The crowd showed up all right on Saturday, but they might almost as well not have been there for all the good they did the team. Our sole reason for turning out for ball games seems to be to see a good game. But there should be another reason as well. We all have a duty when we turn out then, and that is to support our team and do our share to help them win. It is easy to support a winning team, but the time the team needs your help most is when they are being beaten. Then if we cheer our best, and let, them, know that we are behind them, and that they have got to win, they will win or will come closer to in anyhow. Last Saturday when Dartmouth had piled up a seven run lead, half the stands got up and left. Of course the track meet was going on. But just then it was the ball team that needed the support, and I'm sure everybody wouldn't have gotten up and left if the score had been even!

Of course the crowd wasn't to blame for not cheering because there weren't any cheer leaders, and for the same reason they can scarcely be blamed for going away. We need cheer leaders and ought to have them at the Holy Cross game on Wednesday. There is no reason for waiting until the Princeton game before we start to cheer. Most of us haven't been in a regular cheering section since last November, and our cheering won't be very good at the Princeton game if we don't try it a few times before. It wasn't any good at the Princeton game last year. We had a long cheer every five or ten minutes perhaps, and these didn't do much good. We ought to have them more often and louder this year, and everybody ought to do some real yelling. Everywhere you go, you hear how poor Harvard's cheering is, no matter what the sport. And, as some one said to me the other day, I think that "it is about time that Harvard began to learn how to cheer." Before important games such as the Holy Cross game Wednesday, I think we ought, if possible, to have a band march through the yard and down to the field. But anyhow let's have some cheering!

Yale beat Dartmouth, and you know what Dartmouth did to us last Saturday, Holy Cross best Yale 14-1. That team of ours is a good team, but it needs our support this Wednesday. Let's everyone of us who can turn out and give it to them, and let the powers that be not fail to provide cheer leaders! THEODORE DEETER '23

May 9, 1921.