If Harvard wins in the game with Brown this afternoon the championship pennant will float on Holmes Field next year. We have good reason to feel confident as to the result, but let there be no relaxation on the nine's part. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," says the old proverb, and Harvard at different times has had the truth of the maxim sorely impressed upon her. The championship undoubtedly hangs upon this game, for if defeated by the weakest club in the inter-collegiate league, how can we expect to overcome our strongest opponents? But defeat we do not expect. For we, the college, feel confident of the result because of the little over-confidence that has been shown by the nine in the games which they have played this year. They always have played with remarkable steadiness, and have not relaxed even when the game was most certainly in their hands. This accounts for the large scores by which we have beaten almost every nine we have met. But just one word of warning,-look out for coaching and base-running.
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