Simultaneous with the blossoming of seersucker jackets, bare female legs, and other signs of spring in the Yard, Coach Bob Maddux's Varsity lacrosse team emerged from the gloom of Briggs Cage yesterday into their more natural surroundings on the Business School athletic field. The afternoon sun which covered the field did not extend so far as to shed excessive light on Crimson prospects. Aside from the general feeling among Maddux and his men that this year's team is sure to be superior to the wartime aggregation of last spring, the crystal ball remains definitely clouded.

Of the more than 40 candidates still out for the team only three have demonstrated enough to be assured of a starting berth. In the lead of the trio will be last year's co-captain, midfielder Ned Dewey, who played large amounts of tackle for Dick Harlow last fall. Right up with Dewey will be his football tackle twin, Ed Davis, a defenseman on the 1943 team. Rounding out the experienced threesome, Jay Hurley, a letterman back from the 1942 and 1943 teams can do much to bolster last year's woefully weak attack.

Beyond these three the issue remains in doubt, with last year's regulars and GI Freshman competing on even terms for the remaining seven positions. In the meantime there remains only one week until the opener for Maddux to pick his starters.

The Crimson ten will inaugurate the season with their annual spring trip into Eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland, the heart of the American lacrosse country, opening April 1 with Drexel at Philadelphia. April 3 will find them playing the University of Maryland at College Park, and on April 5 the Navy game will bring the trip to a close at Annapolis. The boys from the warmer climes will have the decided advantage of several weeks additional outdoor practice. Win, lose, or draw, Maddux figures that the trip will provide needed experience for the New England Intercollegiate Lacrosse League competition which awaits the stickmen on their return.

League games with Dartmouth, Tufts, Williams, M.I.T., and New Hampshire and an extra-curricular tiff with the Boston Lacrosse Club will bring the team up to May 24 and the Yale embroglio well primed for Bulldog meat. At this early date predictions on the outcome of the N.E.I.L.L. race for the Briggs Trophy are pointless, but come what may April 1 will find Chief Maddux and his ten best practitioners of the old Indian game on the warpath and howling.