TENNIS.

Careful consideration should be given to the suggestion of Major Moore that tennis be raised to the rank of a major sport. The college world is firmly agreed that some place shall be created in the athletic system for the great majority of students who formerly took their exercise, willingly or unwillingly, by proxy in the stands. As Major Moore further suggests, the successful solution of the problem is more likely to lie in the popularization of games rather than in any form of calisthenics that might be offered.

With such a purpose in view, tennis has rather striking qualities for becoming a really popular sport, since its limitations are so few. The elementary principles of the game may be acquired in a few minutes, yet there is practically no limit to the advance which scientific study and constant practice may achieve. Again, while no athletic training or qualifications are necessary to begin with, the excellent training in the co-ordination of mind and muscle which the game furnishes is scarcely equaled by any other sport. And, finally, commencing with but two players, the number of available courts is the only limit to the number of players who may be active at the same time, a qualification of the greatest importance.

If the advancing of tennis to a major sport is regarded as necessary to effectively encourage it among the students in the University then the change should be made. The solution of the athletic problem appears to lie in the direction of popularization of sports, and it must be those sports which are not as severe in demands upon physique, time, and coaching service as are the present major ones. On the whole, we believe that Major Moore has come very near to the correct solution of the problem.