The plan announced yesterday, which will govern the Leiter cup series this year, seems a carefully considered one and well calculated to arouse and keep interest constant in the series. It will be remembered that last year's regulations divided the sixteen competing nines into four groups, with the intention of having each nine play every other in its group and then the four group champions playing off for first place. The diffculties proved to be that in two groups nines dropped out and in one of the others there was a tie, so that the number of games played was disproportionate.

The new idea of ranging the nines as far as possible in order of excellence and constituting what reminds one of a spelling class contest, is a clever one. Under such an arrangement if any team retires after the series has begun, each of the others will simply move up a peg and the competition will continue as before. Moreover, the plan is so novel that it promises to prove an attraction in itself, and so help to make the series popular and increase its usefulness as a training school.