WOULD PROMOTE BOXING AS NEW MINOR SPORT

The growth of the popularity of boxing at Harvard in the last few years has generated a movement in the University to make this one of the regular intercollegiate winter sports.

Two years ago, Harvard held an informal boxing match with M. I. T. This meet was highly successful from every standpoint, but the undergraduate members of the committee defeated the plan then proposed for making boxing an intercollegiate sport at Harvard.

"I am personally willing to do all that is in my power to further the sport here" W. J. Bingham '16 declared if the students express a desire for such a team the idea will again be put to vote by the committee. There is every reason to believe that

such a measure would go through."

There are, furthermore, to be additional facilities for a boxing team in the new gym. There is to be a regulation ring built in the boxing room, with all the necessary equipment. Lawrence Conley, coach of boxing, reports that he has anywhere from 100 to 130 men out every day working under his supervision. He holds three classes daily, five times a week, and declares that even then he is somewhat over-crowded