suffer by the contrast. The fact must be also taken into
consideration, that we have nearly a year to improve in, which the
Eastern schools do not have, their track athletics ending with the
spring term, while ours continue into winter. The time in the
220-yard dash and 220-yard hurdle race is made straightaway, while
our records are made on a curved track, and a very poor one at
that. The difference in time is nearly a second and a half, which
brings our record in the 220-yard dash down to about 23-4/5
seconds, which is very good."

The return trip might be made over the Northern route, if the O.H.-S.
team can arrange for games with the Multnomah A.C. of Portland, Oregon.

The amount of money necessary to defray all the expenses that would be
incurred in coming East is estimated by the California athletes at
$2500. They propose to collect this sum from the members and _alumni_ of
the school, from an entertainment to be given, and from contributions by
the business men of Oakland. They also count on making some profit from
their share of the gate receipts at the various games in which the team
will compete. Again, I cannot urge too strongly upon the leaders of
athletics in our Eastern schools the desirability and advisability of
encouraging these California sportsmen to come East. It will give
interscholastic sport a great boom in every way, and raise the standard
and importance of school contests. I have no doubt whatever that, as
soon as the Eastern trip of the O.H.-S. team is definitely decided upon,
Andover, Worcester, Hartford H.-S., Barnard, Cutler, and many other
schools will be eager to arrange dates for dual games.

There is such a great number of school football teams in and about
Boston, that it is impossible, of course, to include them all in one
association. Even the original I.S.F.B.A. has found it necessary to
divide itself into a Senior and a Junior League, so great was its
membership. And so, as rapidly as new teams crop up and find there is no
room for them in existing associations, they will form new organizations
themselves, and eventually, no doubt, the great scholastic games of the
year will be between the winning elevens of different associations, just
as the principal scholastic football game hereabouts is that between the
teams representing the New York I.S.F.B.A. and the Long Island
I.S.F.B.A.

The Suburban High-School League is second in import