To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I read with interest the article in your issue of January 10 concerning the origin of hockey. Though my limited knowledge prevents my criticising intelligently the account of the development of hockey from whacking dead cats down London gutters. I believe there is evidence to prove that hockey originated not in modern England, but in ancient Greece.

The National Museum at Atheus contains an archaic bas-relief taken from the walls of Themistocles showing what we would call the face-off of a game of field hockey. The opposing centers are about to put in play a ball the size of a baseball; two forwards on each team are prepared to receive it. The men carry sticks similar to those now in use, though they are shorter as to handle and end in a crock rather than in a flat arm. The whole scene greatly resembles the aspect of the modern game in every way. Of course I do not know just how the ancient Greeks played their game--whether there were more players on each team, whether there were goals, etc.--but it does seem reasonable that this bas-relief indicates the existence of a game very much like our ice hockey some centuries before the birth of Christ. Henry W. Keyes Jr. ocC.