After the unfortunate defeat of the Harvard nine by the Yale nine in Cambridge last spring, where nevertheless our men so clearly outplayed the Yale team, the members of the nine and of the college placed great hopes in the game that had been arranged to be played with Yale in New York on the fifth of July. If this game could be played it was thought that the question of supremacy between the two nines could be satisfactorily settled, and from the record made in the games at New Haven and Cambridge it seemed altogether probable that the Harvard nine would win in the New York game. On the fifth of July, although all arrangements had been made for playing, the game was prevented by a heavy rain. In a conference with the Yale nine our nine immediately offered to play off the game on the next morning, July 6th. To this the captain of the Yale nine objected on the ground that his nine could not be kept together until that time, inasmuch as Platt, the Yale third baseman, was to start for Europe immediately. Yale consequently refused to play the game although every argument was brought to bear by Harvard to induce them to do so. On about the fifteenth of July the New York papers contained an account of a game between the Metropolitans and the Yales of the day previous. Thus it appears that Yale is willing to break agreement with a dreaded rival on the slightest pretext but afterwards accepts engagements with professional nines for no apparent reason.