It seems very unfortunate, that the disposition to make mere farces of the class baseball games is so general. The class nines have seldom been better able to set a high standard of play than they are now, nor has there often been a better opportunity for them to do service to the University by training material for the University nine. In any effort in this direction they certainly do not receive much encouragement. True, they have managed to play very good ball in spite of the uproar which is primarily intended to cause errors, but the conditions under which they play are made decidedly unfavorable. Enthusiastic applause is a strong incentive to the players; but applause, pure and simple forms only a small part of the demonstration at the games today. The outcry which is designed to "rattle" opponents is often more energetic, and even in the applause, encouragement is hardly as much the object as discouragement.

It is often asserted that the class games are chiefly of worth in that they give occasion for the display of class feeling; but we are reluctant to believe that class feeling is dependent for its existence on such outbursts of extravagant and inconsiderate enthusiasm as are now common at the games. Regard for the absolute as well as for the relative merits of the opposing nines can be cultivated at the same time with the most extreme partisanship.