Increase of Cricket in the United States.

The leading English cricket paper, Cricket, in its issue of December, speaks as follows of Harvard's challenge to Yale last autumn:-

"It is gratifying to find that cricket is steadily increasing its hold on the youth of the United States. Harvard University seems to be doing good work just now in its efforts to develop the game by its permanent introduction into the collegiate institutions of America. At the first meeting of the University Cricket Club, held lately, the management reported that they had tried to arrange a match for Monday, Oct. 11, between Fifteen of the University and the Gentlemen of Ireland. Unfortunately, though, owing to the fact that they had to sail from New York on the following Wednesday, the Irishmen were unable to play, a matter of regret to the cricket authorities at Harvard, not only because such a fixture would have helped the game a great deal in the University, but because it would have considerably improved Harvard's chances of meeting Yale, its great rival, in an annual match."