In glancing at the baseball schedule, one is struck with the few games arranged with professional nines. The new rule in regard to the position of the pitcher has evidently tended to exclude many such dates, which otherwise would have been made. If a large portion of the colleges of this country will adhere to the old regulation for pitching we may hope to see the line between the professional and the amateur nine drawn more distinctly. A few additional changes in the playing rules might further result in a very effective separation of the two. It is even possible that the amateur and the professional game may come to occupy quite different places in American life and it is a question if either one would be hurt by the distinction. Add to this the effort which is now being directed award the purification of athletics, that is the exclusion of professionalism, and it may not be many years before we shall have college baseball where it belongs.

There is a tendency, however among some of the colleges to follow in the steps of the National League. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and a few others, have agreed to stand on the old footing. Apparently their policy is a definite one and we sincerely hope that all amateurs may see fit to make their own regulations and not to follow unquestion ably the whi+++s of professional baseball magnates.