The News thus seeks to arouse the Yale freshmen in matters of base-ball: "If the freshmen hope for success in the opening game with Harvard, which will be played in New Haven this year, they must go to work in earnest. The Harvard freshmen will have an unusually strong nine, as may be judged from the fact that the change battery of the university nine belongs to the freshman class. We would not prophecy such an unprecedented thing as defeat for a Yale freshman nine, but would warn '89 of the disgrace which would fall on them if through carelessness such an event would be allowed to occur."

The information in the above about the change battery of our 'varsity nine is valuable, because quite new. The italics are our own. Let Harvard's freshmen give them proper attention.