The Cricket club has shown commendable energy in challenging Yale, and it is to hoped that their efforts to arrange a match will meet with success. In former years challenges have been refused on the ground that there was not sufficient interest taken in the game at Yale. We are confident, however, that there are now many experienced players there, and many other men who would be glad of a chance to participate in the sport. The experience of the Harvard elevens has shown that cricket does not interfere with other sports. There are undoubtedly a large number of men in both colleges who would try for the cricket eleven, but not for any other team. It would add greatly to their interest in cricket to have an annual Harvarn-Yale match and would give proper recognition to a game which has not yet received its due appreciation at the two colleges. This year is an especially appropriate time for Yale to accept Harvard's challenge. She would thus strengthen the tie which is binding together the athletic interests of the colleges. In case a dual league is formed-and indications point to one in the near future-all branches of athletics ought to be represented. There can be no doubt about the two colleges having annual contests in rowing, base ball, and foot ball, and but little about track athletics; shooting matches appear to have become established as annual occurrences, and an effort is now being made to arrange bicycle races. Cricket surely has as strong a claim as any of the smaller sports, and possibly the strongest. With tennis it would fill out the list of sports which ought to be considered as a whole in deciding the athletic superiority of one college over the other. In view of the fact that Yale could undoubtedly organize a representative team, it would be greatly to her advantage and to Harvard's for her to accept the challenge.