short-stop and
first base respectively. Hall, of last year's Poly. Prep. team, is
pitching, and Watt, formerly of Bryant & Stratton's, is catching.

The Adelphi Academy has turned out a better set of players than it had
last year, and promises to make a good record. The team is made up
pretty much of new material, but the men are working hard. Jewell and
Simpson alternate in the box, with Forney as back-stop. Byers at first
and Graff at third are capable players. Poly. Prep. is laboring under
the disadvantage of an unfavoring faculty--a group of honest gentlemen
who have not yet caught up with the fact that athletics have come to
stay, and are, in moderation, a part of every educational system. As the
school officers take no interest whatever in the sport, the players are
working along as best they can under these adverse circumstances, and
they are fortunately getting good support from their fellows. The
authorities have gone further than being passive in their attitude
toward athletics by ruling that Stevenson, the Captain of the nine,
shall only play in league games. This is all very well if Stevenson
neglects his studies for baseball, but as far as I am able to learn,
such is not the case. Dunne is pitching fairly well, but to be
successful he must get better control over the ball. Noyes, who is
acting as substitute Captain, is putting up a steady game at second, and
McKay is doing well at first. The other players are new. The out-field
is weak, but the team work at times is fairly good, and the men
certainly have a spirit and energy which are commendable.

Even a casual observer cannot fail to notice how much more is done for
interscholastic sport in New England than in New York and its vicinity.
Not only do Harvard and Yale universities take an active interest in the
work of the young men whom they expect to gather into their own ranks,
but even the Boston Athletic Association, which cannot hope to derive
any material benefit from its exertions, offers cups and medals for
interscholastic events, and does all that is possible to aid and advise
the Boston school-boys. It seems to me that the New York Athletic Club
could do worse than follow the B.A.A.'s good example. As far as I know,
the N.Y.A.C. does nothing in the interest of school sports. To be sure,
my indefatigable friend Evert Wendell performs enough good service as
referee at scholastic contests to make up for many of the club's
shortcomings; but Mr. Wend