VARSITY BOXING SQUAD IS CUT TO NINETEEN MEN

After almost three weeks of training, the Varsity boxing squad has been cut to 19 men. Coach Lamar has been putting his men through fairly simple building-up, exercises since the Yale football game; but now that he has a more manageable group, he plans to start preparations for the hard season ahead. Already a program of intensive training has commenced, and the men in the squad have a vivid impression of the arduous routine work through which they will be put. They must be in topnotch shape for their first match, against M.I.T., scheduled for next Tuesday.

Probably one of the strongest opponents this year will be West Point. The regular season will be finished off with the Yale match, to be held early in March. Soon afterwards, the best men will probably be entered for the Intercollegiate Championship.

"Prospects are excellent," stated Coach Lamar yesterday afternoon. "Although we have only had a regular Harvard Boxing Team for two years, there is now an abundance of good material. The men are enthusiastic, and despite the loss through graduation of Adlis, Fiechter, Nawn, and Watson, there is no doubt that we will have a good team this year."

W. G. Cooper, Jr. '33 and P. W. A. Hines '34 are the outstanding letter men of last year's team. Hines has lost only one bout in two years, and that one to the Canadian Intercollegiate champion. Cooper also holds this reputation having lost only once, and then in an unusually close bout last year in the Yale match.

There is some uncertainty as to whether there will be a Freshman team in boxing, since there was none last year. However, there are some 25 first-year men working out daily under Coach Lamar.