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0 0 2 2 Halsey 0 0 0 0 Hamilton Institute 0 0 0 0 Harvard 2 2 0 16 Trinity 1 0 0 5 Wilson & Kellogg 0 1 0 3 Woodbridge 0 0 0 0 Yale 0 1 0 3 Sachs 0 1 0 3 Long Island I.S.A.A. School. Firsts. Seconds. Thirds. Points. Adelphi 6 2 3 39 Polytechnic Institute 3 3 5 29 Brooklyn High-School 2 3 1 20 St. Paul's 2 3 1 20 Brooklyn Latin School 2 2 2 18 Bryant & Stratton 0 2 1 7 Pratt Institute 0 0 2 2 The accompanying table offers a comparison of the work done on the two tracks, and will serve as a record of the day's doings. Space prevents my inserting a comparative table of the interscholastic and intercollegiate records, but I shall do that at an early date, and the showing will by no means discredit the school athletes. The only difference between the New York and Long Island programmes is that the New-Yorkers run a one-mile bicycle race, while the athletes on the other side of the Bridge cover two miles in that event. And they do not throw the baseball. They are right. The event is not athletic. The Yale Interscholastic Tennis Tournament was held in New Haven on the same date as Harvard's in Cambridge, and although the entries were not so many from the Connecticut schools, the work of the players was excellent. The winner was J. P. Sheldon, of Hotchkiss Academy, who held the championship of Ohio before he came East to attend school at Lakeville. Sheldon's hottest matches were against Sage and Trowbridge, who was last year's champion. He defeated Sage in two sets, 7-5, 6-2, and overcame Trowbridge only after three stubbornly contested sets, 8-6, 6-2, 6-4. Last year Trowbridge did not compete at Newport, and it is Sheldon's intention now to follow his schoolmate's example. I hope he will change his mind, for it is to the interest of sport that the ablest players should meet, a
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