FORMAL SPORTS RESUMED.

For the first time since 1916, the University crew and baseball team will engage in intercollegiate contests today. The race at Princeton and the game here mark the resumption of formal athletics after the lapse of over a year in which we have seen the abolition of all sports followed by their slow and uncertain revival under the guise of informalism to their present basis. This revised formal basis eliminates all the objectionable qualities of unnecessary, expense and excessive advertising which formerly brought college athletics into disrepute. Its success or failure rests with the student body.

Athletics have been carried on with great difficulty this spring because they have been subordinated, rightly, to the work of the R. O. T. C. It is all the more creditable that under these circumstances a baseball team and a crew have been turned out which are entirely worthy of ranking with the teams of prewar days. The enthusiasm of the players and the untiring efforts of the coaches deserve the backing of every undergraduate. Today's game gives the first opportunity; a well-filled grandstand this afternoon will prove that this support is complete.

It is long since we have enjoyed the old, absorbing sport of taming the Tiger. A double chance is offered today and the entire student body has confidence that Captains Gross and Emmet will be able to "carry on" as in the past.