Harvard defeated Oglethorpe 5-2 in their battle at Ponce de Leon Park yesterday afternoon, but it did something else. The Crimson athletes gave a lesson in sportsmanship and clean, upright competition that every southern college would do well to learn by heart. If the Harvard team ever returns for a southern invasion--and here's hoping it does--the faculties of the Dixie institutions of learning could not do better than make attendance on the Harvard games obligatory. The lesson would be far more valuable than hours spent wresting with Greek verbs, mathematical problems, or whatever else the faculties are supposed to teach.

The Crimson-Petrel battle was a desperately fought affair. Not a run was made until the seventh inning. Jack Morris, on the hill for the little Atlanta School, had a spitter that completely baffled the Cambridge contingent. In addition to that, the visitors were getting all the worst of the umpire's decisions not that Eubanks was making any faulty rulings intentionally but any southern team would have squawked to high heaven had such decisions been make against them.

With the score tied, Harvard had an excellent opportunity to score. A decision by Eubanks that was patently and palpably wrong, brought the rally to a finish. The Harvard players didn't budge from their bench. Captain Emmons went out on the field and made his protest in a perfectly orderly manner. When he was overruled he went back to the bench and the Harvard team fought on. The game wasn't delayed more than ten seconds.

Again every good play by the Oglethorpe athletes--and there were lots of them--was warmly applauded from the Harvard bench. In short, the baseball players from America's oldest university play ball with the spirit that it is pleasure to meet another college in honest conflict and because the college is opposing them does not of necessity indicate that its athletes are burglars halfwits, or unfit for the society of the ordinary run of human beings.

Oglethorpe caught the Harvard spirit and returned it in kind. In fact, the little Presbyterian school has always shown a keen regard for the ethics of sport that other and larger neighboring colleges could emulate with profit.  The Atlanta Constitution