This afternoon and evening in New Haven the Harvard whist team will play the Yale whist team for the championship of the two colleges. The Yale men who will play are L. R. Conklin '96 and N. B. Beecher '98, O. S. Bryant '99 and J. S. Cameron '99, and James Frank '96 and A. C. Sherwood '97; substitutes, E. C. Herdrich '96 and G. H. Schuyler '96, and L. Gilman '99 and F. R. Parks '99.

The Harvard players who left for New Haven yesterday are W. T. Denison '96 and C. D. Booth 1 L., F. C. Thwaits 3 L. and C. E. Whitmore 2 L., and F. N. Morrill '96 and J. W. Peck '96. Although the team does not play as steady a game as last year, the men have all been working hard for some time and have a good chance to win. The matches which have been played with the strong teams of this vicinity have given the team excellent practice, which the Yale men have not been able to obtain and therefore no comparison of the teams can be made with any certainty.

The style of play which will be used is the new team-of-six plan, which was used with success in last year's match. Every Harvard couple plays eight fresh deals (making twenty-four in all) with every Yale couple. The deals are then played over, the Yale men using the hands which the Harvard men used in the original play, and vice versa, but the pairs are so arranged that no deal is played a second time by a couple at whose table the deal was used in the original play. Hence there is no chance for remembering hands. The Harvard men play long suit but have a strong defence against short suit.

Mr. James Stone, secretary of the Brooklyn Whist League, will referee the match.