SUPPORT FOR THREE INNINGS

Those who felt that the support given the baseball team this spring has been far from satisfactory must have been encouraged at the size of the crowd at the game yesterday and at the enthusiasm of the cheering. There were indeed grounds for satisfaction in the undergraduate backing--until Amherst began to win.

At professional ball games one expects to hear the home team jeered when it falls behind. One does not expect that a Harvard team will find support from Harvard men only when it has a chance of winning. Least of all does one expect that undergraduates will not only lessen their cheering as the game goes against the Crimson but will also either leave the stands or hoot their team. Comparisons are odious--the following one should be odious enough to bring out the point: when the Yale football team returned from its defeat at the hands of Princeton last fall it was met at the station, in a pouring rain, by as large a crowd of students as had ever turned out for a Yale eleven.