New leagues are springing up continually. A few days ago the three most prominent military schools of the West met in Chicago and organized the Northwestern Military School League, which is to consist of the Shattuck Military School, at Faribault, Minnesota; St. John's Military Academy, at Delafield, Wisconsin; and the Michigan Military Academy of Orchard Lake, Michigan. The organization is to cover baseball, football, and track athletics. It is to be a triangular league at present, but other schools may be admitted by unanimous vote. No arrangements have yet been made for baseball or track contests, but a football schedule has been laid out as follows: Shattuck will meet St. John's at Minneapolis or St. Paul the Saturday before Thanksgiving, and the winner will play Orchard Lake at Chicago the week following. This league ought to grow and prosper, for it is just the kind of thing that is needed among the schools of the Northwest to encourage and foster interscholastic sport.
The Inter-Preparatory League and the Cook County High-School F.B. League, of Chicago, are at present the most nourishing scholastic associations of the West. They are both strong in members, and some of the school teams are putting up good football. The Cook County H.-S.F.B. League's schedule is made out as follows:
At Oak Park--Oct. 19, English High and Manual Training; Nov. 2, West Division; Nov. 16, Hyde Park.
At Chicago Manual--Oct. 12, English High; Oct. 19, North Division; Nov. 16, Lake View; Nov. 23, Oak Park.
At Lake View--Oct. 12, Oak Park; Oct. 19, Hyde Park; Oct. 26, North Division; Nov. 2, Englewood.
At Englewood--Oct. 26, Oak Park; Nov. 26, West Division.
At English High--Oct. 5, Chicago Manual; Oct. 9, Lake View; Nov. 23, Englewood.
At West Division--Oct. 5, Lake View; Oct. 12, English High; Oct. 28, Manual Training; Nov. 16, North Division.
At Hyde Park--Oct. 9, Englewood; Oct. 26, English High; Nov. 20, Manual Training.
At North Division--Oct. 5, Oak Park; Nov. 2, English High; Nov. 9, Englewood; Nov. 23, Hyde Park.
The season of both the Chicago leagues began Saturday, as the schedules show, the Inter-Preparatory A.L. arrangement of games being in this order:
Oct. 19--Princeton-Yale _vs._ University, at Lincoln Park: Harvard _vs._ South Side Academy, at Washington Park.
