The base ball championship season opened on Saturday rather inauspiciously for Harvard. While the result of the game at Princeton was not unanticipated, the work of the nine was in many respects disappointing. It was not expected that the team would play with confidence nor was it expected that there would be such an exhibition of loose fielding, weak batting, and lack of team play. But before condemning all this it should be remembered that the conditious under which the game was played were all against Harvard. The loose work in the field and weakness at the bat can be attributed to the very natural nervousness on the part of an untried team, overconscious of its own weakness. We see no reason for serious discouragement on account of the loss of the first Princeton game; on the contrary the renewea incentive to hard work which the loss furnishes together with the experience gained from the game, ought to result in such an improvement in the nine that the result of our second championship game will be awaited with more confidence than was that of the first. The loss of one game does not necessarily mean the loss of the championship, but it does mean harder work if the championship is to be won.