PROFITS FROM TENNIS COURTS.

Apparently all are agreed that the best sports for the College are those in which the most men are engaged. Of these sports tennis provides exercise for the largest number. Three hundred and eighty-nine men played on the University courts yesterday, and this number is slightly below the average. As a rule, about half of the courts are in use during the forenoon, but all are being played on continuously during the afternoon, and, including both fields, there is generally a waiting list of between 90 and 100.

Thus it is clear that a great many men make use of the tennis courts, and further that the demand exceeds the supply. And this is in spite of the fact that many of them are unfit to play on; for their surface, if we may so term it, is rough and covered with a substantial dressing of fine dust.

On the other hand, the net returns from tennis for the last two years, after deducting maintenance charges and the expenses of the team, have averaged about $835. Now it does not seem fair to have this money turned over to furnish a trip for some minor team when the courts upon which about 400 men play daily are in such unfit condition and so inadequate to meet the demand. Two things ought certainly to be done: first, to put the present courts into suitable condition, and then to build more. Aside from the question of providing exercise for the largest possible number of men, the principles of equity demand this change.