ement to attend
that particular institution. This is a very ugly story, and should not
be credited unless very positive proof of its veracity can be adduced.
The only ground for the rumors, that I have been able to discover so
far, is that the individuals in question attended other schools last
year. But that fact is by no means sufficient to warrant the assertion,
or even the insinuation, that the change they made was influenced by a
financial consideration. If the report is unfounded, it is almost as
reprehensible an offence against honest sportsmanship to circulate it as
to be guilty of the dishonest practices alleged. As the matter stands
now, there is no doubt that somebody--either the school in question or
the other members of the league--is suffering under an injustice.

[Illustration: THE NEW YORK INTERSCHOLASTIC CUP.]

There are just ten days for practice left before the Interscholastics.
The many school games of the past two weeks have shown that there is
much new material in the field, and that it will not be so easy to pick
the winner of the championship as might have been supposed earlier in
the season. The struggle for supremacy promises to be more interesting
this spring than ever, and I have little doubt that several records will
be considerably bettered. Barnard, of course, will make a desperate
endeavor to carry off the honors of the day, and thus secure a full
title to the Interscholastic Cup. This school will be represented by a
strong team, which gives good promise of equalling the record of last
year's champions, although three of those 1894 point-winners are not
back this year. Of the 38 points which won the day for Barnard last
May, Rogers made 16; Simpson, 6; and Feigenspan, 1--in all 23, or almost
two-thirds of the total victorious score. Thus, if victory perches on
the Harlem banners next week, it will be due in a large measure to the
development and acquisition of new material.

At the semiannual field day of the Academic Athletic League of the
Pacific Coast, held at the Olympic Club Grounds, San Francisco, on March
16th last, the Oakland High-School and the Berkeley High-School, with 52
points each to its credit, tied for first place, and the championship
was consequently awarded to the former for having been the winner the
previous year. The struggle, as may well be imagined, was a close and
exciting one throughout, there being no event, except perhaps the shot,
hammer, and mile run, that