'S ROUND TABLE, a United States
Interscholastic Athletic Association bids fair to be formed, and
if the consolidation takes place, the first field day will be held
at New York city in June, 1896. The association will consist of
all academies, preparatory and high schools in the United States
which are of enough prominence in athletics to be eligible. It
will be a far greater organization in point of numbers than the
Inter-collegiate Association. New England will have thirty schools
represented, New York eighteen, Long Island five, and Pennsylvania
twelve, besides many other schools in different parts of the
country."

The _AEgis_ is certainly correct in saying that, in point of numbers, the
National I.S.A.A.A. would be greater than the I.C.A.A.A. New England
would certainly have more than thirty schools represented, for there are
thirty schools in the N.E.I.S.A.A. alone, and many important
institutions outside the organization that would certainly join. There
are also the Maine, the Connecticut, the Western Massachusetts, the New
York State, the Pittsburg, the Cook County (Illinois), the Dartmouth,
and many other associations, which, by joining, would bring the
membership, reckoned in schools, up to the hundreds.

In view of such a representative gathering of the schools of this
country, the _AEgis_ is perfectly justified in remarking that "the school
which wins the meet at Mott Haven next June will be the champion
academic school of the world; truly a great distinction." And
continuing, it asks: "Why should not the Oakland High-School be this
school? We have good athletes, who are capable of upholding the honor of
the school in any kind of company and on any field." With such a spirit
as this the Oakland athletes cannot fail to be prominent in any contest
they may enter.

The general plan of the trip East, to be made by the O.H.-S. team, is to
come directly to New York via Denver and Chicago. The present idea is to
reach here early in June, and to arrange a series of dual games with
some of the larger schools. Says the _AEgis_:

"The crack schools of the East, with which the O.H.-S. team would
compete, are Andover and Worcester academies in New England, and
Barnard School of New York. A comparison of their records with the
records of those athletes now in school, in addition to the
probable records of the next field day, shows that we do not