The game with Holy Cross yesterday should not bring discouragement either to college or nine, but it should be the turning point in the steady decline which has characterized our playing since the Princeton game. There is hardly any excuse for a team which started the season with such heavy batting powers, to become suddenly the easy victims of the pitchers of the visiting nines. The poor fielding yesterday is not significant, for the radical change in the make-up of a team is generally accompanied at first by loose playing. What lost us the game, however, was Harvard's seeming inability to bat. It is this fault which is really the serious one. This year above all others the Harvard nine, to be victorious, must in some way strengthen themselves in this particular weakness. Yale refuses to play us a third game and so there is but one thing to do and that is to beat her both here and in New Haven. But to do this a vast improvement must be made and right soon at that. The students have confidence in their representatives, above all in their Captain, and they look to both to see that they do justice to the University and to themselves.