Baseball.

The Harvard nine gave their old pitcher Howe a warm welcome yesterday afternoon. They hit him for 14 bases with a total of 21, and scored in every inning. Williams, on the other hand could get two hits together only in one inning, and narrowly escaped a shut out. Nearly all the aggressive work for Williams was done by Harvard who made three hits, stole three bases, and brought in the only run.

The game, though rather slow, had a good many interesting features. Besides the heavy batting, the Harvard men did some sharp playing, fielded almost faultlessly, and had two double plays in particular that showed they were on their mettle. The change in the field seems to work well, and after Hovey and Sullivan become used to each others playing, they will add much to the strength of the nine. There was some remissness about coaching, and the men were too careful of themselves in sliding to the home plate.

Williams was first to bat. Howard was out on a bunt to the pitcher, Anderson struck out, and Hollister flied out to Corbett. For Harvard, Hallowell made a hit, took second on a passed ball, and came in on Cook's hit. Hovey advanced Cook to third on a sacrifice, and Corbett tried to bring him home but he was thrown out at the plate. Corbett was thrown out in trying for second. In the second Draper got a base on balls, after Ide and Baker had gone out on grounders. A foul fly was the best Nutting could do. Harvard added another run to the score. Frothingham got his base on balls, stole second, took third on a passed ball, and came in on Uptons play. Upton was left on third after a steal and an advance by a passed ball. Draper's work was a bit ragged all through the game, he having no less than five passed balls. Howard made a hit in the third, but no other Williams man could effectively find the ball. Harvard made four hits this inning and one of them a three bagger. Cook took first on an error, stole, and came in on Hovey's hit. Hovey was advanced to third but was thrown out at the plate. Corbett made a hit and came in on Sullivan's three-bagger, while an error by Ide let in Sullivan. Frothingham made the rounds on three errors and Trafford's hit.

In the fourth, Ide made a rattling two-base hit and a passed ball gave him third. Wiggin then showed his steadiness by striking out both Baker and Draper. Harvard added three more on two errors, a single, and Corbett's three-bagger. In the fifth, Trafford made a quick play. Nutting was on first and Spangler hit to Sullivan, who threw to Trafford. Trafford immediately sent the ball to Hovey, and as Nutting ran over second a little he was put out. Harvard had two more on Upton's two-bagger, a base on balls, and a passed ball. In the sixth, Williams made her one run. Howard made a hit, stole second and came in on Hollister's two-bagger. Harvard had four men on bases, during the inning but a neat double play prevented more than one run.

Nutting reached third in the seventh on a hit and two good steals but neither Spangler nor Howe could bring him in. Wiggin made a run on a base on balls, a steal, a hit and an error. In the eighth Howard again made a hit and stole around to third. Wiggin, however, was very steady, struck out two men and retired another on a fly. Frothingham and Trafford made singles, and singles, and Upton made a three-bagger, two runs resulting. Baker made a hit in the ninth, but William's chances for another run were destroyed by the prettiest sort of a catch by Hallowell and his quick assist to Trafford.

The score:

HARVARD.

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

Hallowell, c.f., 5 3 1 1 2 1 0

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

Hovey, 2b., 5 1 2 2 2 1 0

Corbett, l.f., 4 3 2 4 1 0 0

Sullivan, s.s., 4 2 1 3 1 3 0

Frothingham, r.f., 4 3 2 2 2 0 0

Trafford, 1b., 5 0 2 2 11 1 0

Upton, c,, 5 1 3 6 8 1 1

Wiggin, p., 3 1 0 0 0 1 0

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Totals, 39 15 14 21 27 19 1

WILLIAMS.

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

Howard, 2b., 4 1 3 3 3 4 1

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

Hollister, r.f., 4 0 1 2 0 1 1

Ide. s.s., 4 0 1 2 2 3 2

Baker, l.f., 4 0 1 1 3 0 0

Draper, c., 3 0 0 0 5 2 2

Nutting, c.f., 4 0 1 1 2 1 1

Spangler, 1b., 3 0 0 0 1 0 1

Howe, p., 3 0 0 0 0 2 2

Towne, c.f., 1 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Totals, 34 1 7 9 24 14 11

INNINGS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Harvard, 1 1 4 3 2 1 1 2 - 15

Williams, 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 - 1

Earned runs: Harvard (3), Williams (1); two-base hits: Ide, Upton, Hollister; three-base hits: Sullivan, Corbett, Upton; sacrifice hits: Hovey, Cook, Wiggin; stolen bases: Frothingham (1), Upton (2), Cook (1), Corbett, Wiggin, Howard (3), Nutting (2); first-base on balls, off Wiggin (1), Howe (7); first-base on errors, Harvard (4); struck out, by Wiggin (8), Howe (1); double plays, Sullivan, Trafford and Hovey, Nutting and Spangler, Hallowell and Trafford; passed balls, Draper (3), Upton (1); wild pitches, Howe; time, 2h. 5m.; umpire, Mr. Mullens.

NINETY-SIX VS. HOPKINSON'S.The freshmen played a much better game yesterday afternoon against Hopkinson's School nine than their practice up to this date would have seemed to justify. Only in the last inning when they were sure of winning, did they do any loose playing Hayes and Gonterman did the work for Ninety-six. Gonterman making a three base hit and a single. Paul, Hayes, Wrenn, and Keefe also each made a single. The freshmen made in all six hits with a total of eight. For Hopkinson's School, Paine and Harris made the only hits both singles. Ames had four passed balls and Nichols three unfortunate errors. However the playing was for the most part steady and clean. Garrison made two good catches in centre field.

The freshmen failed to score in the fourth, fifth, and eighth innings, and scored two runs in the sixth. Hopkinson's made their only run in the ninth because of loose playing by the freshmen.

On the whole, the prospects of ninety-six are bright for success in the games with the Princeton freshmen. Only two necessities are apparent. The nine ought to have a regular coach, to make them play with snap and to teach them how to bat with accuracy, and the class ought to give more support to a team of such good promise. Let the class present a good delegation at future games.

The nines played as follows:

Ninety-six. Hopkinson

Paul c.f. Stevenson 3b.

Winslow 3b. Warren 1b.

Hayes 2b. Paine r.f.

Paine l.f. Garrison c.f.

Griffin 1b. Woods s.s.

Fuller 1b. Nichols 2b.

Gonterman r.f. Harris p.

Wrenn s s. Hill p.

O'Malley c Ames c.

Henry c Hill l.f.

Morton c Harris l.f.

Keefe p.

McCarthy p.

Kingsbury p.

Score by innings,

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Nine'y-six 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 - 6

Hopkinson's 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1

Umpires, Bullard '96, and Winsor '93.