When the candidates for the freshman baseball team are called out after the mid-years, the class enters into another branch of athletics which culminates in the two games with the Yale freshman nine. To win these games will require the most faithful work on the part of the nine and strenuous exertions on the part of coach and captain. In view of this the class as a whole should feel that their reputation is at stake and make every effort to turn out a winning team. If the number of candidates should be small owing to lack of interest, every man in the class ought to feel himself indirectly to blame. All the more after having a victory over the Yale freshmen in football does the college expect a good baseball team; and the first step in this direction is to give the coach plenty of material to pick from. Every man who tries for the team should do so with the fixed determination that nothing shall prevent him from doing his best to uphold the good reputation in athletics which the class of ninety-eight has thus far sustained.