UNFAIR CHEERING.

Dean Briggs's report on athletics, coming with the near advent of the more important baseball games, raises again the question as to what sort of cheering is justifiable at games. The standard by which this should be determined is this: the visiting teams are our guests, and as such are entitled to the courteous treatment from us which the name of host implies. A fair way to decide just what this means is for us to stop and consider what we would deem courteous treatment were we on the side of the visiting team, and then we should accord such treatment to our guests. "Rattling" a visiting team is unsportsmanlike, for it is clearly taking an unfair advantage. This usually takes the form of organized cheering at times which the cheer leaders know are inopportune for our opponents, and is really more unfair than such recognized foul play as tripping a base-runner, for it is taking advantage of a circumstance over which the visiting team has no control: namely, that it is on our grounds. As we rather pride ourselves on the clean play of our teams, it would indeed be unfortunate if we were at any time to lay ourselves open to the accusation of taking an unfair advantage from the bleachers.