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eters have been the champions, both as to 

 New York and a number of the Philadel- 

 phia clubs, and the recent acquisitions of 

 playing members will render the Jersey's 

 even stronger than ever. 



A very complete schedule has been ar- 

 ranged By the Secretary Mr. F. F. Kelly, 

 who is also known as one of the best 

 bowlers in the Metropolitan District Crick- 

 et League, and conclusions will be tried 

 with Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and 

 a few Canadian clubs. Then there is the 

 regular league games, for which the Jer- 

 sey's entered 2 teams, under the captaincy 

 of C. P. Huditch (A team), and Howell v. 

 Clarke, (B team). 



Big improvements are being made at 

 the beautiful grounds at Bayonne, and 

 every facility will be afforded visiting 

 teams, who will have the freedom of the 

 country and town houses. 



New Jersey Club, Staten Island, Man- 

 hattan, New York and Newark constitute 

 the League fighting for the pennant, and 

 the handsome silver loving cup which is 

 presented at the close of the season. 



The great event, however, will be the 

 visit of the Australians at the close of 

 their British tour early in September. As 

 this is the strongest aggregation that has 

 ever visited our shores, it is expected that a 

 large crowd will be on hand to see how the 

 locals fare with such crackajacks. Some 

 of these Australians have already been seen 

 in New York, and their great success is 

 fresh in the minds of all followers of the 

 game. 



Practice has already commenced, and 

 the nets are filled with players anxious to 

 do credit to their respective clubs, both 

 with bat and ball. 



YALE THE HOCKEY CHAMPION. 



Yale, by the decision recently rendered 

 in the Yale-Pennsylvania controversy, wins 

 the intercollegiate hockey championship. 

 Yale won all her 3 games in good style and 

 by so doing got first place. Pennsylvania 

 was placed second by defeating Columbia 

 and Brown. As Brown and Columbia had 

 both lost their games they played off for 

 place, Columbia losing. The best game of 

 the whole series was that between Pennsyl- 

 vania and Yale, when the Blue won from 

 the Philadelphians in the last 20 seconds of 

 the game. An argument arose as to whether 

 the deciding goal was made during the 

 time of play, as it sounded to some as if 

 the referee's whistle had blown before the 

 goal was made. The referee decided that 

 Yale had made the goal within the time 

 limit, and so won the series. 



It is too bad that any such disagreement 

 should arise. If both parties had been a 

 little less eager to fly at each other's throats 

 certain newspaper comments miajht have 



C. P. HURDITCH, 

 Champion Cricketer of the United States. 



been avoided. I hope the time is not far 

 distant when all disputes in college athletics 

 will be settled amicably and without pub- 

 licity. 



Barring the disagreement feature men- 

 tioned above the entire season was a great 

 success. The managers of the intercol- 

 legiate association are to be congratulated. 

 In the early part of the playing off of the 

 schedule all the teams showed a woful lack 

 of practice. However, toward the end of 

 the season the play improved greatly, and 

 both Yale and Pennsylvania in the deciding 

 contest played almost faultless games. 



THE KNICKS WON. 



The Knickerbocker Athletic Club water 

 polo team won the title of " water polo 

 champions of the United States," at the 

 Sportsmen's Show in March by defeating 

 the team of the New York Athletic Club, by 

 a score of 3 goals to 1. The play was ex- 

 tremely rough and fast. The Knickerbocker 

 team, however, had no difficulty whatso- 

 ever in defeating their opponents, 





