Harvard vs. Longwood.

The cricket team played its first game yesterday afternoon with the Longwood Cricket Club, and were defeated by an innings and 37 runs.

Longwood batted first, and began the innings with Bixby and L. Mansfield at the bat, Ellis and Barrow doing the trundling. Barrow begun well by bowling L. Mansfield on his first ball, but when Wright joined Bixby the trouble began. Wright batted with even more than his usual skill, and succeeded in obtaining the highest score of the day, a well earned 43. Dutton supplemented this score by a careful twenty, and Bixby and and Hubbard aided towards making the creditable total of 96. The bowling of the Harvard team was on the whole not up to last year's standard, but the fielding kept well up to the mark.

Harvard opened the inning well with 16 for the first wicket, Brown and Frost contributing these runs; but after they had been dismissed the batting broke completely down, and the whole side was retired for the extremely small score of 19 runs.

Harvard being more than forty per cent behind her opponents, was forced to follow on, and by rather careful play succeeded in obtaining 40 runs, though there was again only one contribution of double figures. So the match was concluded with Longwood as victors by an inning and 37 runs. The Longwood bowlers were Wright, Dutton, and Hubbard: the Harvard bowlers were Ellis, Barrow, Brown and Balch.

The game was scarcely an encourageing beginning for the cricket season. The eleven, however, will now be able to practice regularly, and in the matches of the next two weeks, much better work may be expected of the team.