In regard to the disgraceful exhibition made by our freshman nine at New Haven on Saturday, we publish today a communication from a member of the team, and a statement in regard to the pitcher. In yesterday's CRIMSON we perhaps censured the pitcher too severely, when, as it turns out, he was acting only under orders from the captain. But our opinion of the action of the freshman team as a whole is unchanged. No such disgraceful thing has been done before in the history of our athletics. That it was done by a freshman team is a palliating circumstance, but in a game with another college a freshman team has to keep up the reputation of Harvard. If the unmanly conduct of our representatives was-as it undoubtedly was-due to the orders of the captain of the team, we cannot censure him too strongly.

The action of the manager in not providing money for the expenses of the team, without relying on the Yale guarantee, was careless and culpable, and forms the excuse put forward for playing the game. In the first place the game should not have been played. If the weather was considered too bad for the game, the game should have been forfeited and money telegraphed for or borrowed by the careless manager. But if a game was necessary, it should have been played in a straight-forward, manly way. That the captain of the nine should adopt the policy of delaying the game, of resorting to trickery, unknown to our college teams before, and only on the level of professionalism, is utterly disgraceful and dishonorable, if not cowardly. If the game was begun, it should have been played in earnest. Fair defeat is no disgrace, far from it, but trickery and "muckerism" should never come into college athletics.

We regret the action of our freshman nine as bringing disgrace on our university. We hope that the captain and members of the nine will learn a lesson in regard to college athletics, and college opinion and conduct that they will never forget.