hus far proved most
interesting. A number of the games have already required more than nine
innings play to determine the winner, and so far the Cambridge High and
Latin nine has escaped defeat. At the present date of writing the
standing of the clubs in the N.E.I.S.B. League is:

Per
Clubs. Won. Lost. cent.

Cambridge High and Latin 2 0 1.000
Hopkinson 3 1 .750
Boston Latin 1 1 .500
English High 1 1 .500
Roxbury Latin 1 1 .500
Somerville High 0 3 .000

The Hopkinson players received their first defeat on Friday, the 17th,
but they played a good game, and showed the results of Joe Upton's
coaching. The batting especially has improved. Hopkinson and C.H.&L.
will have a hot fight for the pennant. Dakin of the English High-school
is pitching up to his old form again, and held Somerville High down to a
single hit in their recent game, which E.H.-S. won by the score of 14 to
1. But S.H.-S is one of the weakest teams in the League. The Roxbury
Latin nine show want of practice, and their only redeeming virtues just
now are the pitching of Morse and their general batting strength. But
the New England school teams are all well provided with good pitchers
this season, so that Morse's proficiency counts for little when it comes
to a decisive contest. Team-work, after all, should be the mainstay of
every nine.

In the tabulated record of the N.Y.I.S.A.A. games printed on p. 538 of
Harper's Round Table of May 21st, a typographical error shows Hackett's
time in the mile walk as 7 min. 4-2/5 sec. instead of 7 min. 46-2/5
sec., which it should be.

THE GRADUATE.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.
EDITOR OF THE ROUND TABLE:

SIR,--I noticed in the first number of HARPER'S ROUND TABLE a
reference to the "timid people" who object to football. There have
been many other remarks of this kind, at various times, made in
the Round Table. If you can grant me a little space, I should like
to point out the injustice of sneers of this kind.

In the first place, in order that it may not be said (as it
generally is said when any one lifts up his voice against the
game) that I am ignorant of the subject, I may say that I am a
football p