The twenty-third annual tournament of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association will begin today on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, and will continue for several days. All the leading colleges will be represented. The Harvard team, composed of B. s. Prentice '05 (captain), R. Bishop 3L., J. I. B. Larned '05, and C. L. Cole 3L., left for Philadelphia Saturday night.

Harvard won the championship last year in both the singles and the doubles, thereby winning two points of the seven required to obtain possession of the cup offered by the Merion Cricket Club. In the singles, Harvard players alone reached the semi-finals, and W. J. Clothier '04, won the tournament. In the finals of the doubles, Clothier and E. W. Leonard '03 defeated Wright and Larned of Princeton.

Only one member of the victorious team last year, R. Bishop 3L., is on the present University team. Two of the others, Prentice and Larned, played on the team that defeated Yale in the dual tournament last spring and contributed to the victory by winning one of the double matches. Larned also won a match in the singles. C. L. Cole 3L. has done good work in several tournaments here, but is representing the University for the first time.