"What's the matter with Hampstead Town?" is the topic of the hour in senior amateur football circles, and it is also a matter of great concern to hundreds of local enthusiasts who, for several seasons past, have followed the club's career with close interest. The officials are being bombarded with letters, anonymous and otherwise, proffering criticism and advice.

This keen interest is really a very great, and not undeserved, compliment to the club and its management in the past few seasons, when the team has shown consistent, if not brilliant form; and until lately they have seldom sustained defeat on the home ground. The desired improvement will undoubtedly be achieved if the requisite patience is exercised while team problems are being solved. There is no dearth of talent, but it is mainly in the embryo stage, and opportunity must be given to determine the relative merits of players and to secure the desired combination.

Hampstead Town are passing through a bad patch just now - one of those lean patches which comes to every team, great or small alike, in turn. In their last four matches nine goals have been scored against them without response, and on Saturday further hopes of success in the London Senior Cup were shattered when Cheshunt, on their own ground, routed Hampstead by four goals to none. W.F. Mays, who resumed his old position at left back, has not yet recovered his form after a serious illness, and the experiment of playing C.A. Smith at centre, and Travers Day at inside right, effected no improvement in the forward line, which was again weak and ineffective in front of goal.

Further changes will be made in the team to meet the present League champions - Bromley - who visit the Child's Hill ground tomorrow (Saturday). Kick off 3 o'clock.