CRICKET OUTLOOK

The candidates for the cricket team have been practicing for over a week in the cage of the Gymnasium under the coaching of members of last year's team, eight of whom are still in College. So far the work has consisted simply in bowling and batting, each candidate taking three fifteen-minute periods at the bat during the week. At present the team has no place for outdoor practice, although it is likely that a crease will be laid out on Soldiers Field in the spring.

The team will play five or six practice games before the intercollegiate contests with Pennsylvania and Haverford. The latter will probably have an exceptionally good team this year and Pennsylvania will be about as strong as usual. F. C. Sharpless of Haverford and W. P. O'Neill of Pennsylvania have been appointed by the Intercollegiate Cricket Association to mark the championship cup and deliver it to Harvard. H. H. Lowry '00 and W. W. Justice, Jr., of Haverford, have been appointed a committee to award bats for the best batting and bowling averages in 1899.

A team consisting of four players from each of the three teams in the Intercollegiate Association will probably play a match with a team picked from the Canadian colleges late in June or early in July. As the match last year, which was easily won by the American team, was played in Philadelphia, this year's match will be played somewhere in Canada, probably at Toronto. W. S. Hinchman of Haverford, A. Drinkwater '00 and A. W. Jones of Pennsylvania, constitute a committee to arrange for the Canadian match.

The officers of the Cricket Club for this year are. G. H. Wilder '00, president; H. H. Lowry '00, vice-president; F. O. Horstman '01, secretary and treasurer; A. Drinkwater '00, captain.

Of the men now eligible for the team, A. Drinkwater '00, C. H. Bradley 2M., R. C. Brown 1G., J. H. A. L. Fairweather 2L., H. G. Gray 3L., J. A. Lester 3G., J. T. Murray 1G. and G. H. Wilder '00 were regular members of last year's team; C. L. Clay '02, R. Flint '01 and E. B. Hilliard '00 played in some of last season's games; H. H. Lowry '00 has played on the Haverford team and O. Paul on the Pennsylvania team. The following new men are candidates for the team: C. Norton '00, P. F. Brown '01, J. O. Carson '02, G. Ireland '01, R. S. Clark sC., J. H. White '03, W. N. Taylor '02, F. Fisher '03, J. P. Hogan '03, W. McC. Lloyd '03, W. R. Spofford '02, A. S. Hewins sC., H. W. Dana '00, G. H. Tower '03, H. C. McNeil '01, T. Stokes '03, B. F. Bell '00, L. B. Abbott, Jr., '03, S. Daggett '03, R. G. Wellington '02, D. Scott '00, S. W. Lewis '00, C. P. Webb '03, C. H. Bell '00, C. Reed '02, V. C. Mather '03.