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Cricket.

Tomorrow the cricket team will play its final game: and judging by its record, the eleven is undoubtedly the best that has yet represented Harvard. The team has won six out of the seven games it has played; it has made a total of 880 runs for a loss of 98 wickets, which gives an average of 8.97 runs per wicket, while its opponents have made only 445 runs for a loss of 90 wickets, or an average of 4.94 per wicket. In bowling, too, the averages of Harvard are much better than those of her opponents. Three men-Brown, Garrett and Skinner-have already made over a hundred runs in all, and several of the other members of the team have batted well. The team tomorrow will be composed as it was Saturday against Longwood.

It would be too sanguine a prediction to say that Harvard has an even chance of winning tomorrow. For it must be remembered that George S. Patterson, America's champion cricketer, will captain the Pennsylvania eleven. He was over in England and Ireland last summer with the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, and won the latter's cup with an average of over 40 runs per inning. He also, except one man, did the best bowling on the trip. With him will be Wood of the first eleven of the Germantown C. C., H. C. Thayer of the first eleven of the Merion C. C., W. Goodwin of the first eleven of the Philadelph a C. C., and several other rising players. W. S. Ellis, '89, captain of the '87 and '88 Harvard elevens, will probably be one of the Pennsylvania team.

The chances are certainly all in favor of Pennsylvania, but cricket is a most uncertain game. If the splendid allround work of the team on Saturday is kept up, Harvard ought to give her opponent all she wants to do.

Tomorrow's game will be played according to the new American plan.

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