A Training Table for Track.

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Athletic Committee has voted not to give the track team a training table on the grounds that it is a team of individuals, and does not work as a unit. No clearer step could be taken to convince followers of track athletics that the Committee are either unfamiliar with the ground on which they travel; or are unwilling to support track with the same spirit with which they support baseball and crew.

To be sure each man on the track team fights his own individual battle-but in addition each man should help every other to fight. This fighting spirit in the track team is more of a psychological, than of a physical nature. Unlike the baseball team and the crew, the track team can not practice as a playing unit-yet to win they must have that psychological, optimistic team-work.

A training table would not only give the team regular and substantial meals, but it would give them an opportunity to "talk up" their races. In this way the less experienced members could gain valuable information as well as team spirit.

Would it not be well for the Athletic Committee to take more interest in track; and to remember that even a winning team cannot fight without backing and a fighting chance. AMES STEVENS '19.   WILLIAM MOORE Occ.   R. W. HARWOOD '20.   D. F. O'CONNELL '21.