The success with which the college has met in the championship ball games this spring has resulted in a considerable increase in the interest taken by the students in this sport. Ferhaps the strongest proof of this increased interest is that furnished by the many "scrub" and "table" nines which have been formed among the, so to speak, non-professional players of the college. This result ought to be encouraged, for in many ways it is a most desirable one. In the first place, it proves a most excellent method to get the men out of doors for exercise, a result which is highly commendable by the faculty, if we may judge by their utterances of last winter of the athletic question. Moreover, it may happen that some men will be brought out who can be induced to practice with a view to filling vacancies on the regular teams, though from the playing that has been shown by the scrub nines thus far this season, this result may be fairly regarded as extremely problematical. At any rate we would encourage the formation of these scrub teams. Let it be hoped then, that the next two weeks may witness many games between "amateur" nines.