ell does this purely as a lover of sport, and
not as a representative of the club. Many of the best athletes of the
N.Y.I.S.A.A. are members of the N.Y.A.C. They ought to get together in
the near future, and, with the aid and advice of Mr. Wendell, endeavor
to get the managers of the N.Y.A.C. to show more active interest in the
exceedingly good work now being done by the schools.

In Boston, all the Interscholastic Committee meetings are held in the
B.A.A. club-house on Exeter Street, and every winter the club holds an
in-door meeting for the especial benefit of the thirty schools that
compose the New England League. The silver cup which the B.A.A. has
offered this year to be played for for five years by the school baseball
teams is a fine trophy, and cannot fail to act as an incentive to the
young players of the league. Harvard's work for the schools is even more
active. Seven years ago the university was instrumental in forming the
New England I.S.B.B.A., and in 1891 it organized the Interscholastic
Lawn Tennis Association, whose fifth annual tournament was held on
Jarvis Field, Cambridge, May 4th and 6th, with an entry list of over
fifty names. The prizes offered each year are a gold medal or a cup to
the winner, a racquet to the runner-up, and a championship banner to the
school whose team scores the largest number of points. This year the cup
is a handsomely engraved piece of silverware in the shape of a pitcher
with one handle. As a general thing, I do not believe in medals and cups
as inducements to young men to enter into amateur sports. The pure love
of the game should be sufficient to call out their best efforts. But
there is no doubt that interest in their early efforts, expressed in
some such material way by associations of older players is a good thing,
and it is certainly a strong incentive to a general participation in
athletics for many boys who might otherwise be too indolent or too
disinterested to discover and develop their own capabilities. This once
done, however, there is no school-boy who is not enough of a true
sportsman not to keep on, regardless of any possible material advantages
or rewards. The mere title of champion is the most precious prize to be
won in any field.

That Harvard's efforts for the promotion of tennis in the New England
schools have been successful there is no doubt. At the first tournament,
held in 1891, R. D. Wrenn, now the national champion, then in the
Cambridge Latin Sc