The Yale News comes out squarely and acknowledges the probable loss of the championship in base-ball. It is the first time for years that the defeat of our opponents is laid to that hitherto almost unknown quantity, Yale indifference. We quote the editorial in full:

"Yale has lost the championship; there is little use of trying to conceal this fact. We make this apparently premature statement for the reason that we think it impossible for both Brown and Yale to beat Harvard; both of which things would have to happen even to tie Harvard for first place. We shall try to bear our defeat as best we can. It was bound to come some day, as people say of Hanlan. There are many circumstances which lead us to think that fortune is not favorably inclined toward us this year. She began last fall and has shown her displeasure more or less all the time since. All our teams have suffered, but the ball nine most of all. Two of the best players were obliged to give up the game, and our pitcher has been disabled all the time. However, we won't offer any apologies. We were fairly out-played. We did the best we could, but it was not good enough; Harvard did better. It is hard for men who have seen Yale's flag flying from the topmost notch ever since they have been in college, to realize that they must see it dust and mud stained for the year to come. Let it not be said of us that we who have known prosperity so long and intimately, do not know how to bear defeat, as Harvard surely will not let the converse be said of her. To the nine, all glory; they deserved victory: to the college the opposite; they reaped what they sowed.

The last sentence is sufficiently explained by one word. There were twelve men at the game with Princeton on Saturday last, which was to decide Yale's fate for this year."