This Saturday Harvard plays its second lacrosse match with the Bostons. Since the first game both teams have improved considerably, so that a well-played and exciting game may be expected. The Boston team have been practicing every night on the Common by electric light. The Harvard team will be much better than the one that defeated the Beachmonts last Friday.
The principal fault still noticeable is in the body checking, which is as yet weaker than the rest of the play. The attack is also weak in passing, but it will be strengthened by the addition of H. N. Arnold '96, who played for several years on the Lawrenceville School team. E. Norton '96, also of Lawrenceville, is expected to come out soon.
It is hoped that all men who have ever played before and all who are interested in lacrosse will come out this week, since Harvard must have a representative team in the important college matches.
The schedule of games has not yet been completed, and those dates that have been arranged are subject to change. The management are trying to get a game with Princeton in Cambridge, May 11. The objection made by Princeton to this date is that the Harvard-Princeton baseball game takes place on their grounds on that day. The other games are: May 18, Stevens Institute, on Manhattan Field, New York; May 25, Cornell, at Ithaca; May 30, Boston, at Cambridge; June 8, Toronto University, at Cambridge. The other teams with whom games may be arranged are Crescent A. C., Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, and College of the City of New York.
Probably the two strongest teams are the Crescents and Stevens. The latter were beaten a few days ago by the University of New York, but Stevens has challenged some of the New York players as not being regular members of the University.
The intercollegiate league is composed of Stevens Institute, Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, and Cornell.
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