Spalding's Base Ball Guide has never been distinguished for the dignity usually expected in an Official Guide. This year it deals in petty vituperation more than ever, especially in a paragraph directed at Harvard. We quote in full.

"The Harvard College Base Ball Club's receipts for 1892 aggregated $20,539. This fund will materially aid Harvard's athletics for 1893, there being a good balance at command despite an expense account of over $18,000. The question is, what made the expenditures so large? Cyclone pitchers and their hard-worked catchers doubtless came high in the college arena in 1892."

Two circumstances make this especially contemptible. The first is that the Guide vehemently protests against certain charges of crookedness in the National League and insists that only those "accustomed to crookedness and hippodroming cannot imagine that anything in the way of sports can be free from some one or other phase of dishonesty." The second is that the accuracy of the editor's figures suggests that they were obtained from some tabulated statement, like that in the Crimson of February 9, 1893, where the expenses of the Harvard nine were itemized in full; but that the editor preferred to suppress them, and to indulge in his sneer with full knowledge that it was unwarranted and malicious.