In striking contrast to the successes which most of our athletic teams have gained by labor and perseverance are the pitiful defeats of the Harvard cricket eleven. All our other athletic teams that use the name of their college go into regular practice and training, but the cricket eleven, although a desultory sort of practice is kept up, makes no pretense to keeping those rules and observances which the nine, the crew, or the lacrosse twelve consider as an absolute necessity for victory. It is a pity that Harvard should be represented on the crease in the way she has been. It is now too late in the season to go into training, as no more games are to be played this spring, but let next year see a decided change in this matter of cricket. Let Harvard have a team that can do something, or let us drop the game from the list of our athletic sports. To contribute to this success college interest is absolutely necessary. We should all remember, therefore, in disparaging the work of the eleven, that the lack of such interest has caused the present unsuccessful season.
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