The twenty-fifth intercollegiate tennis championship matches commenced yesterday on the courts of the Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia. At the completion of the third round there were eight survivors, of whom Harvard had three, Niles, Gardner and Dabney; Yale, two; Pennsylvania, two; and Princeton, one Niles and Gardner, of the Harvard team, each played in two matches, both of which they won.

The results of the matches in which the University players took part, are as follows: Niles beat Dixon, Princeton, 6-1, 6-4; Schmidt, Pennsylvania, beat Dana, 6-0, 6-2; Gardner beat Donnell, Hobart, 6-4, 6-3; Dabney beat Thayer, Pennsylvania, 6-4, 4-6, 8-6; Gardner beat Oakley, Williams, 6-2, 6-2; Niles beat Stevens, Yale, 6-0, 6-1.