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Rh who have the making of good track or field men who don't realize it and don't think about it. Of course, it's too late this year, but next"

"Well, it's this year that's worrying me," broke in Guy. "Whoever comes after me can bother about next year."

"Still," said Sears earnestly, "we've got to work for the future as well as the present; or we should anyway. I've sometimes wondered if we couldn't enlarge the interest by holding a meet about the middle of the season, a handicap meet between classes. Once get a fellow interested and if he has anything in him he wants to get it out. And so he keeps on."

"That's a good scheme," agreed Guy. "Funny we've never thought of it. But it's too late for this spring. What we might do, though, is to hold an open meet and work up some enthusiasm that way. It would be a good thing, anyway, for the team."

"Couldn't we get a meet with some other school?" asked the manager. "Highland Hall or someone."

"Guy's scheme would answer the same purpose," said Sears. "We could talk it up, get the candidates themselves interested in it and get the school interested, too. It might show us some material we didn't know of. Some fellows will do stunts