Our ambiguous contemporary, the Yale News, again puts us to some trouble to comprehend its remarks on the subject of where the freshman game shall be played. It states, after quoting a sentence or two from our editorial to the effect that the Harvard freshman nine ought to insist on playing the first game here, that "it is evident, however, that the HERALD-CRIMSON speaks 'out of the heart,' and it occurs to us, remembering the sad assembly at the New Haven House corner on the occasion of that game last spring, that they may be speaking 'out of the pocket,' also."

This may be a lucid statement in connection with this subject, but we confess that we do not understand it. Is it a Yale joke, or is it the "Yale method" of argument? We confess we have not given the subject of betting any prominence in considering this subject, and although we may speak "but of the heart," we are not aware that we have spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this courteous suggestion from the new board of editors of the News, we will now answer their editorial so far as it refers to the ball game.

It is evident, the News must concede, that if either team gains any advantage by playing the first game on its own grounds, in all fairness the custom ought to be that the game be played year by year alternately on the grounds of each team. This is the whole question in a nutshell. It has not been done. We ask that it be done hereafter.

The News quotes the example of the foot-ball teams. If we mistake not, the '86 game was to have been played in New Haven, but having been postponed, it was at length found necessary to play it at Cambridge, if at all. Last year it was Harvard's right to have the game played here. Our eleven, or our nine have not "been afraid manifestly to leave the friendly shelter of their walls, even to play on neutral ground." We urged '87 to make a stand against what was an evident injustice. If there is any cowardice, it is certainly not on Harvard's part, and we would ask the News to reflect whether urging their freshman nine to play in New Haven or not at all, is showing that "decent spirit of fairness towards equalizing the odds" of which it talks so pathetically.