Nuisance on Jarvis Field.

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The time has come when something ought to be done to stop the theft of tennis balls and racquets which is now becoming a common occurrence at the tennis courts on Jarvis Field. Now that the Leiter Cup baseball series is finished, Nortons Field no longer offers to "muckers" the opportunity for stealing bats, gloves, etc., that it did before. Accordingly they have shifted their hunting grounds, and prowl instead about the courts on Jarvis Field. Racquets are stolen less frequently than balls, but in either case there is no necessity for such a nuisance.

The chief cause of all the trouble is the custom of employing "muckers" to chase balls. In this manner they gain entrance to the field, and at the same time have some recognized basis from which to carry on their thieving.

We are altogether too tolerant of the Cambridge small boy. There is only one thing to do: Keep him off the University grounds. Then, when he is caught red-handed in a theft, turn him over to the police to be made an example of. This is the advice of the police themselves. The recent success of shutting this little pest out of Yard concerts, only shows how unnecessarily long suffering we have been. UNDERGRADUATE.