Although Oliver Wendell Holmes lives in Boston and is a Harvard man, Yale students would do well to "read. mark, and inwardly digest" that one of his many good sayings which states in substance,, "the three cardinal sporting virtues are to put up, pay up, and shut up." Although the final heat of the 100 yard run in the recent inter collegiate games was close, the facts published in our report of the meeting should be accepted as supporting the decision of the judges, and nothing more need be said. But several ardent Yalesains are still perturbed about the matter, and one of them sends us an eleven page special plea and an instantaneous photograph, to prove that Sherrill beat Rogers by 2 feet. His brief is a sad waste of white paper and his picture is almost as bad.

We had already received one of these photographs, sent by an old friend at New Haven, and had studied it carefully. It was taken when the leading men were about 10 yards from the tape, and we are unable to understand what their relative positions at this point in the race has to do with the order in which they crossed the finish line. But if this picture had been taken at the instant the winner breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge of the path. about 25 yards from the finish, and the view obtained was from the rear of the runners. Nearest to the camera was the rearmost man, either Horr of Cornell, or Lund of Harvard, fully 10 feet behind his leaders. Next came Baker, of Harvard; Bonine, of Michigan, and either Lund or Horr, almost exactly abreast, Bonine, if anything, a shade behind the others. A few feet in front of this row, and close to the inner curb, ran Rogers, of Harvard, while Sherrill, of Yale, was in the middle of the path, and so nearly in front of Lund (or Horr) that the picture shows, only part of his head, part of each shoulder, a thin strip of his left side from arm-pit to hip, and a faint trace of some part of his right leg. Neither of his feet are seen, and no human intelligence could determine from this picture whether he was a yard ahead or a yard behind Rogers.

The camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill had won, but he has had too much experience to advance such an opinion against the decision of a judge who stood exactly on the line, and had his eye on the tape. - Spirit of the Times.