Game With Yale This Year Ends Baseball Series

Harvard and Yale will play their last commencement baseball game this year. And the passing of the classic contest could bring with it the destruction of Splinter Stadium.

"Yale decided this year that it would not play any more post-season games. It's simply too long after school is over," Howard F. Gillette '35, General Secretary of the Alumni reported.

"We don't have any choice but to go along," Gillette said.

Yale announced last year that the 1965 game would be the final one played at New Haven. This year they will bow out altogether.

The commencement baseball game, like he Harvard-Yale crew race, is a Class Day event. It has been played the day before graduation almost every year since 1868 and does not count in the official records of either team.

The commencement baseball game is the only event that ever fills 6570-sent Splinter Stadium. And so the stadium will probably not be needed after this year, commented Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Athletics.

The Athletic Department is currently considering tearing down the rotting arena and replacing it with simple bleachers with a lower seating capacity, a department official reported.