FINAL PRELIMINARY HOCKEY

The University hockey team will play Dartmouth in the Arena this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Except for a short exhibition game with the B. A. A. next Tuesday, tonight's game will be the last one before the Yale series. Tickets are on sale at the Athletic Office, Leavitt & Peirce's, and the box office of the Arena at $1.50, $1, and 75 cents apiece.

Dartmouth has played only two games this season and has lost both of them, having been, defeated by Princeton 14 to 0, and by Columbia, 5 to 4. Since the Columbia game almost a month ago, it has met no other teams. It has during the interim, however, been able to practice steadily, and in consequence has been improving enough so that the University team will have to play its hardest to win. Whether Dartmouth has improved enough to defeat a team playing as well as the University has been lately, is very doubtful, for its material has not yet shown up to standard.

The line-use will be as follows: HARVARD  DARTMOUTH. Palmer, l.e.,  r.e., Frost Duncan, l.c.,  r.c., Mason Huntington, r.c.  l.c., Delinger Pierce, r.e.,  l.e., Luitweiler or Schulte Blackall, c.p.  c.p., Johnson Willetts, p.  p., Bullard Gardner, g.  g., Taylor

Passing Improved in Practice Yesterday.

An hour's practice was given the University squad in the Arena yesterday evening. The first half of the time was spent in developing the passes of the forwards, and two fifteen minute scrimmages, one between the first team and the B.A.A. and the other between the second team and the B.A.A., occupied the remainder of it. In each of these scrimmages, the B.A.A. was defeated 1 to 0.

The work of the first team, although still disorganized, was much faster than on Wednesday. The chief fault was a tendency on the part of the forwards to become mixed up. Palmer made the only score from a scrimmage in front of the B.A.A. goal. The second team also played a good game, the team-work of the forwards showing a noticeable improvement. The only goal was pushed in from a scrimmage by Adams.

Passing Improved in Practice Yesterday.

An hour's practice was given the University squad in the Arena yesterday evening. The first half of the time was spent in developing the passes of the forwards, and two fifteen minute scrimmages, one between the first team and the B.A.A. and the other between the second team and the B.A.A., occupied the remainder of it. In each of these scrimmages, the B.A.A. was defeated 1 to 0.

The work of the first team, although still disorganized, was much faster than on Wednesday. The chief fault was a tendency on the part of the forwards to become mixed up. Palmer made the only score from a scrimmage in front of the B.A.A. goal. The second team also played a good game, the team-work of the forwards showing a noticeable improvement. The only goal was pushed in from a scrimmage by Adams.