eard from
again in the 220, and McCarty of Germantown will probably take the
quarter. Thackara will push him. Thackara will also have a close contest
with Hedges in the half-mile, as both are good men, and Thorpe of Penn
Charter will see that they make their best time. Branson has a record of
5 feet in the high jump, and it is doubtful if any one else in the
I.A.A.L. can better it. The pole vault is uncertain, but Beasley of
Germantown has cleared nearly 8 feet. The running broad will probably go
to Remington, whose record is 18 feet 5-3/4 inches, but it will be
closely contested by Hunsberger and Shoenhut. As Boyd of Cheltenham M.A.
will not contest this year, the hammer and shot are uncertainties, and
will go to new men.

An unusually large number of schools came into the I.A.B.B. League this
year, and some good games were the result. Germantown Academy and
Cheltenham M.A. defeated all their opponents, and met last Friday to
decide which school should fly the championship banner. The game was
played too late in the week for me to be able to notice it in this
Department, but I shall treat of it next time. The De Lancey School
stands third in the race, with two defeats. Cricket is not a regular
I.A.A.A. sport; but a cup, offered by the Haverford College Cricket
Club, was contested for last year, and has been played for again this
year by a number of the schools in the league. In 1894 De Lancey headed
the list, with Germantown, Penn Charter, Haverford Grammar, and
Episcopal Academy following in the order named. The struggle this spring
will be between Penn Charter and De Lancey, neither having yet suffered
defeat. Penn Charter has two strong bowlers in Jones and Brown but in my
opinion neither one is quite up to Graves, De Lancey's plucky little,
all-round cricketer.

The next three weeks will see some hard training among the athletes of
the New England schools, for all the principal scholastic track meets in
that region come during the first days of June. The first important
meeting will be the dual games between Andover and Worcester Academy,
which will probably be held in Worcester, on June 1st. Then the
Interscholastic games of the New England League come, at Cambridge, on
June 15th, and they will be preceded on June 8th by the Western
Massachusetts I.S.A.A. games at Amherst, and by the Connecticut I.S.A.A.
games at Hartford. At the latter we shall see some records broken, for
Beck of Hillhouse High is throwing the