LACROSSE.

On account of the raw and chilly weather the number of spectators at the lacrosse game yesterday was much smaller than otherwise it would have been. A drizzling rain set in early, and coat-collars were turned up and umbrellas called into use. The game, however, in spite of the discomforts, was the best we have seen at Harvard.

New York put in an appearance with only six men, Mr. Shaw having been injured in the game with the Unions of Boston in the morning, and the rest of the team, either being deemed superfluous or from other reasons, being left at home. The rules governing lacrosse provide that in case one side is short, players to the number of three may be withdrawn from the other side, but no more, and accordingly the six New Yorkers were obliged to face nine wearers of the crimson. This superiority in numbers, it is possible, decided the game in Harvard's favor, for after the first desperate onslaught of New York the ball seldom threatened their opponents' goal. The six made it lively however at all times, and through their very paucity in numbers were able to show their fine running and dodging.

Our team was, perhaps, unable to match them in these particulars, but wisely stuck to their usual tactics, seldom running with the ball, but forcing the attack by a series of passes from one man to another. By this plan New York was unable to cover her opponents, and as her men grew tired successive goals were made on her, each in shorter time than the preceding. The third goal was made before fifty minutes, and by it the Oelrichs cup came into the possession of Harvard.

Of course everyone, players and spectators, felt the wish that our laurels had been harder to win, and the paramount question was, How would it have been if the teams were evenly matched? While such speculation is useless, yet we have reason to congratulate our team on playing so good a game, even under these circumstances. New York brought on the best men in her team - in fact, she borrowed one of the famous Shamrocks of Canada. That Harvard could, without losing a goal, sustain the attack of these wily old "Canucks" is no mean proof of her ability to meet them on a fair field with no favors. Wheeler, Flannery, Journeay, Morison, Ritchie and Tucker made up the New York team. Eaton, Davis, Rueter, Noble (capt.), Ennis, Thorndike, Marquand, Noyes and Woods played for Harvard.