UNIVERSITY STICKMEN WILL GET BUSY TODAY

On Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock the first fall lacrosse practice will be held. This practice, which is also open to Freshmen will last as long as the weather permits, probably about six weeks, at the end of which time there will be a practice game with the Boston Lacrosse Club.

The coaching staff will be somewhat altered this fall. Coach Wood of Syracuse University, engaged to replace last year's director, Harry Herbert of the same University, was for two years a member of the All-American lacrosse team. He will use the same system that Coach Herbert introduced last year.

Besides Coach Wood there will be two other coaches, Dr. Paul Gustafson '12, who coached at the University three, years ago, and W. E. Nightingale '15, who played on the lacrosse team while he was in college.

Fall practice will consist mainly of stickwork and passing. The actual scrimmaging, for the most part, will not come until the spring.

The prospects for the season seem good. Only three of last year's team have left the University, and there are eight regulars back. Captain A. E. Reed '26, T. B. Crane '25, G. T. Chase '25, W. M. Reynolds '26, G. B. Salter '26, J. E. Skilling '26, J. R. Sullivan '26, and H. L. Kelsey 3E.S., are all available. Of these eight men five are Juniors, who should be much better than a year ago when they had had no experience, and they were the mainstays of the team last season.