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Communication.

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To the Editors of the Crimson:

Gentlemen: - We had an exhibition yesterday of ungentlemanly conduct that has seldom been surpassed at Cambridge.

On Friday when the score was in '94's favor, the sophmore captain desired to have the game called; this the umpire very properly refused to do; consequently the captain told all the '94 supporters to crowd on the field and stop the game by their presence, thereby winning him the victory. They were kept back, however, by the more level headed men in the crowd. There have been two or three deliberate attempts to injure opponents. Once a base runner butted the third baseman in the stomach and again a short stop tripped a runner so severely as to render him unconscious. This spirit has affected the spectators so that yesterday many of them came around with mirrors to dazzle the fielders. The firearms, also, were brought to much closer quarters, some of the shotguns being discharged at the first baseman within a couple of yards of him. A yacht cannon was fired within five feet of the '94 catcher so that the wadding struck him in the back.

It seems to us that many of the sophomore supporters overstepped the bounds of fairness and decency.

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SIX SENIORS AND JUNIORS.To the Editors of the Crimson:

I have received a letter from the secretary of the Yale Cricket Club stating that the eleven had been obliged to disband, since it could not obtain "the proper support of the University or the necessary material for a team." I regret greatly the action of Yale in this matter, and the embarrassment it causes the Harvard management, since all the arrangements for the game had been made, and a number of season tickets sold with the expectation that the game would be played. When the tickets were sold there was every reason to expect that the game would be played on June 11, both from the assurances which had been received this year, and those last year when the Harvard eleven went to New Haven at their own expense upon the understanding that Yale would come to Cambridge this year. Since, however, the game will not now be played, any purchaser of a season ticket will have half his money refunded by calling at No. 2 Holyoke House between 10 and 12 today. I am sincerely yours,

C. T. R. BATES,Manager Cricket Eleven.

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