A New Base-Ball League.

The papers of the prominent preparatory schools of New England, notably those at Andover and Exeter, are agitating the question of forming an "Interscholastic Base-Ball League." The league is designed to include Phillips, Exeter, Phillips Andover, St. Pauls, St. Marks, and Adams Academies and the Boston Latin School. To those interested in base-ball in the colleges, no move could be more welcome than this; for it would mean a redoubled interest in base-ball for the preparatory schools, which would necessarily result in an excellence hitherto unknown. A systematic schedule of games, and a friendly rivalry for the base-ball championship of the inter-scholastic league, would of necessity prove beneficial to the preparatory schools as well as to the colleges which they supply.

The great benefits occurring from the inter-collegiate games of base-ball will be greatly increased, if the men entering the colleges have a spirit of rivalry, as well as skill in playing well developed. That the proposed inter-scholastic league will be formed, and that Andover and Exeter and the other New England academies will soon be vieing with each other for a base-ball championship, anticipating the greater and more important contests of the colleges is to be hoped.