(To the Editor "Smad.")

As a sincere well-wisher of V.U.C. I would like, through your columns, to make some suggestions with regard to Tournaments. V.U.C. has had no outstanding success in thelast few contests but we have now a fine array of trophies which might to our advantage be used to ensure a discontinuance of this state of affairs. We have no shields to ward off defeat-our trophies might, however be put to more positive uses. For instance, the cox of the eight might be of considerable helop if provided with efficient paddles of which we have still a supply, and a horn might be used effectively in disconcerting our opponents at crucial moments and in encouraging our own team. Seriously, though, let us not take this last beating lying down. This is a matter for the whole College as club committees can do nothing if the availabe though possibly latent talent of the whole College is not at their disposal. The marbles player for all he knows may have a career awaiting him as a shot-putter and the ping-pong enthusiast might revolutionise Univesity tennis. Let us train now for 1937.