Mott Haven Training.

To the Editors of the Crimson:

Soon after the Yale-Harvard track games at New Haven, May 15, the CRIMSON, some of the graduates and undergraduates, at least two prominent members of this year's track team, and one New York writer, affirmed that the cause of the overwhelming defeat on that day was due to the overtraining of the Harvard team. This was done without consulting with me-the only one who knew what that training had been-apparently unmindful of the many winning Harvard track teams in the past that had received advice from the same source, not considering the element of better men or the great disadvantage a poor track like Yale's was to a team trained and raced all the season on one of the best tracks in the country. The records made in the U. of P. games one week before did not show overtraining, and there was no suggestion of it from any one. The team did no hard work between May 8 and 15, no work whatever except a little jogging Tuesday and Wednesday, complete rest being allowed all other days.

Yours truly,

JAMES G. LATHROP.