st, is authentic. It
behooves the Eastern sportsmen, therefore, to get ready to receive them.
As I have said before, the ROUND TABLE will do everything in its power
to further the organization of a National Association of the schools,
and these columns are open to correspondents who care to make
suggestions for the advancement of the scheme. Perhaps a better idea of
what the Californians have actually done, and will do, can be obtained
from this letter, which came to the ROUND TABLE from the Captain of the
O.H.-S. athletic team:

"The newspaper reports are not at all accurate, but they will
serve to show what we have been doing lately. While they do not
convey the exact truth, they have aroused great enthusiasm among
the Oakland people, and we have great hopes of taking an Eastern
tour. We are only awaiting the formation of the Big League to go
right to work, and we have a big job on hand. I suppose that the
Field Day will be held about the latter part of June, and that the
list of events will be made to coincide exactly with the
Inter-collegiate programme. If we came East we could doubtless
make arrangements for a series of dual games with three or four of
the crack schools in the vicinity of New York in addition to the
Big Field Day. Of course this could all be arranged later on; what
we are worried about now is getting started. I wish you would prod
the schools up and get them to take immediate action. We want to
get to work right away, for to raise $3000 is quite a job. The
U.C. boys are in favor of the trip, and will help us in every way.
I wish you would inform us of any steps taken in this regard, and
also put us in touch with the officers, so we could correspond
with them. Would it be necessary to be the winning or champion
team of our league to join in the Field Day, or could the O.H.-S.
alone join the League and uphold the honor of California in the
scholastic world in the East?"

It strikes me that the New York I.S.A.A. will lose an opportunity that
may never offer again if it fails now to take the initiative in the
formation and foundation of the National Interscholastic Athletic
Association of America.

Lawrenceville opened last Thursday, and the football men went to work at
once. Some of the old players got back a week earlier, and saw to it
that the eight fields were put into shape and laid out