WE understand that the manager of the freshman nine will present to the Athletic Committee today a petition requesting permission to play a third game with Princeton, if one should be necessary. It is a request which every one would be glad to see granted. It is reasonable and and desirable, from our point of view. We know the faculty is opposed to freshman athletics on a large scale. Consequently we have had for some years the unsatisfactory custom of only two freshmen games with Yale, whether the series has resulted in a tie or not. This is likely to be taken as a precedent to justify the refusal of the freshman manager's request, but we think it would hardly be a just one. The games with Princeton are not a permanent arrangement; they are simply a temporary means of keeping up an interest in freshman baseball in both colleges, until Yale has passed from under the ban placed upon her by her faculty. It is not at all likely that another meeting of this kind will ever take place, at least not for many years. To have, then, the championship undecided, would be a very poor and unsatisfactory ending to the season's work for both Princeton and Harvard. As this is the first and last chance for our freshmen to measure their strength with the Princeton freshmen, we would add our earnest request to the Athletic Committee to be a little lenient in this case and sanction, if called upon. an arrangement for a third game.