On Finite Morphisms of Ruled Surfaces

We prove that a surjective morphism :XX between ruled surfaces is finite and it descends to a finite morphism :CC between base curves of X and X. When is restricted to the fibres of X, it has a constant degree, say a, and then deg=a deg. In addition, we have several properties on the inverse image of a minimal section and a fibre of X as well as on the direct images. We also investigate precisely the case when both C and C are elliptic and X is the fibre product C×_CX especially.