The Class Championship.

The race for the class championship is closer this year than it has been for several years. No one team is pre-eminently better than its competitors. The result is that every class has won and lost an equal number of games, making the standing a tie.

Yesterday afternoon Eighty-nine and Eighty-seven played their second game together, but the result was somewhat different from the first game, in which Eighty-seven had a pure walk-over, owing to the fact that Eighty-nine had no pitcher. Yesterday, however, Eighty-seven found it extremely difficult to hit McPherson for anything but slow grounders to the infield.

In fact, most of their hits were of the genus known as "scratch." Eighty-nine played a sharp fielding game and batted hard at opportune times, white Eighty-seven's hits were scattered. Litchfield pitched for '87 for six innings, when Powers was put into the box. Manly's hands gave out in the seventh inning, but he pluckily held out till the end. Litchfield caught well for '89; his batting also was one of the features of the game.

In the second inning, by a judicious bunching of hits, and one or two errors by Eighty-seven, Eighty-nine made five runs, and continued to score in almost every subsequent inning. Eighty-seven made two runs in the second inning, on two runs in the second inning, on two hits, a passed ball and a sacrifice. She did not score again till the seventh, when, with one man out, Faulkner made a double, went to third on a passed ball, and scored on a putout. This ended the run-getting for Eighty-seven. The game was called at the end of the eighth inning on account of darkness. The umpiring was all that could be desired. The score is appended:

EIGHTY-NINE.

A.B. B. IB. T.B. P.O. A. E.

Litchfield, c 5 4 4 5 7 6 3

Downer, 1. f 5 3 2 2 0 0 0

Thayer, 2b 5 0 2 2 1 4 0

McPherson. p 5 1 1 1 1 12 1

Young, c. f 5 1 1 3 1 0 0

Trafford, 1b 4 2 2 4 12 0 1

Anderson, r. f 4 1 0 0 1 0 0

Talbot, s. s 4 0 0 0 0 2 1

Clark, s. s 4 0 0 0 1 1 0

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Total 41 12 12 17 24 25 6

EIGHTY-SEVEN.

A.B. B. I.B. T.B. P.O. A. E.

Allen. 1. f 4 0 0 0 2 0 2

Litchfield, p., r. f 4 0 1 1 0 4 4

Manley, c 4 0 2 2 4 2 8

Loud, 3b 4 0 1 1 3 2 0

Coolidge, 2b 4 1 1 1 4 2 1

Powers, r. f., p 4 1 1 1 0 5 2

Bisbee, 1b 3 0 0 0 11 0 0

Faulkner, c. f 3 1 1 2 0 0 0

Dudley, s. s 3 0 0 0 0 1 0

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Total 31 3 7 8 24 16 17

Innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Eighty nine 0 5 1 2 0 1 1 2 - 12

Eighty seven 0 2 0 2 0 0 1 0 - 3

Earned runs - Eighty-nine. 3. Two-base hits - Faulkner, Litchfield, '89. Three-base hits - Trafford. Young First base on balls - Litchfield, '88, 4. Struck out - McPherson, 12; Litchfield, 6; Powers, 1. Passed balls - Litchfield, '89, 3; Manley, 8. Wild Pitches - McPherson. 1. Umpire - Palmer, '88, Time - 2b. 20m.