This afternoon the university nine will play its first championship game with Yale at New Haven. It is with considerable anxiety that the college will await the result; the game is, in a way, the turning point in the championship race. It Harvard loses, her chances for final success will be very materially lessened, although not destroyed. If, on the other hand, a victory is obtained, Harvard will be in the lead for the pennant. We feel that the hopes for fulfilling the latter condition are by no means inconsiderable. In the first part of the spring there seemed little in the playing of the team to justify the college in a feeling of confidence for a successful season. Immediately after the first Princeton game, however, the nine showed marked signs of improvement. The second game at Princeton was most gratifying, and since that time we have been encouraged from the continued progress of the nine, to believe that its chances for success are good. The nine has awakened in the college a feeling of confidence that at any rate it will play a careful game, and never give up until defeated. Therefore it is not inconsiderately that we declare our belief in a victory for this afternoon.

At the last moment we again urge every man to go to New Haven who possibly can. Ordinarily much will depend on the encouragement the nine receive. It is not the part of the men in college to expect victory if no decided effort is made by them to obtain it.