YALE has declined to arbitrate the question of arranging a third game of baseball in case the first two should result in a tie. This practically puts an end to all correspondence, and we are in a fair way to have last year's experiences repeated a season with the championship undecided. It is useless for Yale to lay the blame of this upon Harvard. By her own persistent, uncompromising spirit she has refused not only to consider Harvard's first proposition to play the tie game after the other two, but she has curtly declined to leave the matter to an impartial judge.

The last Harper's Weekly speaking of the matter says: "Yale can show no good reason for refusing to listen to Harvard's sportsmanlike proposition for a game in case of a tie. It is disappointing to Yale's friends to note a repetition of last year's insistence, against all precedent, of a game on neutral ground being played first." This too is the opinion of every fair minded person who is capable of judging a question impartially. If Yale's plan had been a reasonable one, arbitration would have given her all that she now claims. If it had been shown to be unreasonable she ought to have been willing to abide by the decision, for the sake of deciding the championship. But here is just the point where Yale's sportsmanlike spirit can be doubted. No one who has followed this correspondence from beginning to end can beleive that Yale has had any idea of making a third game possible. She has offered every possible obstacle to a satisfactory settlement of the question and has brought forward no substantial argument in support of her position. She has taken no initiative step whatever, but has been content to refuse every scheme advanced by Harvard.

It is this spirit of persistent refusal to compromise or even to run the risk of having her stand refuted in a perfectly fair and square arbitration, which gives to Yale's feeble protestations that she regrets so very much that Harvard will obstinately refuse to come to terms, a strong flavor of insincerity. Add to this her refusal to arrange a deciding game with Brown and we see another glimmer of that same fearful spirit which for two years has characterized her baseball managements. It is a poor and unsportsmanlike feeling which will prompt one to shun an even battle and we think that Yale has distinctly lowered her reputation for grit and manly bearing in athletics by the policy she has adopted.