Class Championship Game.

By winning their second game against the sophomores yesterday the freshmen won the first series for the class championship, and will now have to play the seniors in the deciding series. The game was an easy victory for '95, through '94's wretched fielding and their own good play, but not on account of any strength at the bat, six hits, two of which were scratch bunts, being all that they could get off Mackie.

In the field '95 put up an excellent game. three errors, two of which were excusable, being the only ones to mar their good record. The whole infield should come in for especial praise, as the score shows. Whiting leads the list with nine chances, none, to be sure, being very difficult, and one put-out, a hard catch to make. Whiting made one play, however, that showed excellent judgement, and is worthy of the highest praise. With men on second and third, and no one out, a slow ground hit was knocked to him, and by a quick feint he kept the men to their bases, and then, by a remarkably fast and accurate throw, assisted the batsman out at first. Whittemore's play at third base was very good. His only error was a muff of a difficult foul, and two of his assists were of the phenomenal kind. Cassatt accepted five out of six chances, and his error was an excusable fumble of a grounder for which he had to run nearly to first base. He was a little slow in putting the ball on to the runner, however, and muffed one throw. Rogers at first had seventeen chanes, some of which were pretty difficult, and, curiously enough his only error was made on one of the easiest balls thrown to him.

The battery work of '95 was very fair, though Walker's two passed balls were inexcusable. His throwing was on the whole pretty accurate. Reed kept his head well, and was pretty effective, in spite of the howls of the sophomores.

The play of '94 was wretched in the extreme. Fourteen errors, all by the infield, is pretty nearly a record, even for a class game, and their batting, with the exception of Mackie's three-bagger, and Hapgood's clean base-hit which followed it, bringing in the only earned run of the game, was woefully weak. In one respect however, they out-played the freshmen, for they put snap and life, even into their errors, while '95, though they played a clean game, did not play with snap, except at the rarest intervals.

The day was a good one for ball-playing, except for the high wind which made it next to impossible to knock a fly ball beyond the infield.

The features of the game were a slide to second by Hapgood, Mackie's three-bagger, the assists already mentioned of Whiting and Whittemore, and the double play of Cassatt and Rogers.

The game was a play-off of the second game of the series which was called off by Captain Frothingham on the protest of Captain Wadsworth on the ground that the former game was not fairly played. The protest was made under three heads; 1st on the ground that a '94 base-runner interfered with the freshman short-stop; second that the sophomores intentionally delayed the game; third, the '94 short stop interfered with a base-runner trying for home base on a hit to right field.

The score:

HARVARD '95

A.B. B. B.H. T.B. S.H. P.O. A. E.

Whittemore 3b., 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 1

McAdams rf., 3 3 1 1 0 1 0 0

Dreyfus 1. f., 5 3 1 1 0 1 0 0

Rogers 1b., 5 1 1 1 2 16 0 1

Bigelow c. f., 5 0 1 1 1 0 0 0

Cassatt 2b., 3 1 0 0 2 4 1 1

Whiting s. s., 5 1 2 2 0 1 8 0

Walker c., 4 0 0 0 1 4 2 0

Reed p., 4 1 0 0 1 0 5 0

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Totals, 41 10 6 6 7 27 21 3

HARVARD '94.

A.B. B. B.H. T.B. S.H. P.O. A. E.

Harding r. f., 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0

Quigley s. s., 3 1 0 0 0 1 2 5

Lowell 2b., 4 1 1 1 1 3 2 2

Mackie p., 3 2 1 3 0 1 8 3

Hapgood 3b., 4 0 1 1 1 3 3 3

Linfield 1. f., 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 0

Clark c., 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 1

Cabot c., 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0

Gray c. f., 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Coburn 1b., 3 0 1 1 0 12 1 1

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Total, 33 4 6 8 2 24 16 16

Innings, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Harvard, '95, 3 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 * - 10

Harvard '94, 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 - 4

Earned run, Ninety-four. Three-base hit, Mackie. Stolen bases, McAdams (2), Dreyfus, Rogers, Cassatt, Reed (2), Quigley, Lowell, Hapgood, Clark. First base on balls, McAdams, Walker, Quigley, Mackie. First base on errors, Ninety-five, 14; Ninety-four, 2. Struck out, Cassatt, Whiting, Quigley, Hapgood. Double play, Cassatt and Rogers. Passed balls, Walker (2), Clark, Cabot. Wild pitch, Mackie. Hit by pitched ball, McAdams. Time 1 hour, 50 minutes. Umpire, Mullen.