The manner in which the Harvard-Princeton game ended on Saturday cannot but be distasteful to every one; and yet, because a thing is unsatisfactory, is no proof that it is blameworthy.

As far as we can see, neither captain was wholly unjustifled in his actions. The fact that Captain Mackenzie asked in the first place not to commence a new game but simply to continue the old, and later changed his proposition so as to cut off Harvard from an advantage fairly earned does not look sportsmanlike, but is technically justifiable.

On the other hand, if Captain Mackenzie insisted on regarding the game as flnished, Captain Wiggin had a perfect right to decline to commence a new game on the spot, if, in his discretion, the circumstances were unfavorable to his nine. Harvard's nine is better adapted to play nine innings than twelve, and, besides, nearly all of Harvard's supporters would have had to leave in order to catch the special train before two more innings could have been played and this would have given Princeton a decided advantage in the matter of support. While Captain Wiggin was willing to play through the game already started, he was not willing to throw aside an advantage and enter into a new game under disadvantages. It is plainly the first business of a good captain to see that no advantage goes unnecessarily to opponents.

It has been said that the nines owed the crowd a game. That the outsiders who had paid to see a game should be enraged to lose money and game can be understood, and the experience of the game ought to effect a change of policy regarding rain-checks. That, however, the supporters of either University should think a team bound to throw away chances of success simply that they might see a game we cannot think. The sentiment of outsiders ought not to regulate intercollegiate contests; the sentiment of college men would be against the notion that a captain must jeopardize his chances in order to satisfy a crowd.

Any insinuation that fear was a motive for declining to play the game falls flat. The earnest wish of the Harvard management is that the tie shall be played off, and to that end the management has worked and is now working.