With regard to the game which the nine played with Pennsylvania, we feel that the harsh comment which has been given the team is, in the main deserved.

We appreciate fully that the men have had to work aginst heavy odds, and that all, Captain Wiggin especially, have faced these odds bravely. On this account we are convinced that staunch support is due the team,-a support which is not frightened by defeats; and it is with genuine pleasure that we not and shall note every good showing which the nine makes. And yet even the staunchest supporter must have come near despair after Saturday's game. The playing was undeniably wretched. Not only were the men weak at the bat and unsteady in the field, but, worst of all, they gave no indication by their head-work that they had ever played an intercollegiate game of ball before. The freshmen showed more knowledge of the game a week before than the 'varsity did on Saturday. Not for years, at the shortest reckoning, has any Harvard nine made such an exhibition of itself in an important game on the home grounds.

We hope that the men on the nine will understand the spirit in which this is written. Our disposition to support the nine is unchanged; it is simply impossible to have regard for the truth and to write otherwise about the Pennsylvania game. The nine must do better, else it will bring the baseball reputation of Harvard into derision.