NEWTOWNE DEFEATED.

The game with the Newtowne Club eleven yesterday afternoon, although resulting in an easy victory for Harvard by the score of 22 to 0, proved to be the most uninteresting game that the eleven has played this season. The team as a whole played listlessly, and it may be said indifferently at times; and though four touchdowns were scored, they were made simply on Harvard's superior strength and were far from being the result of fast, aggressive playing. Judging from the spirit prevalent throughout the game, the men were evidently not playing their best, nor trying to, and taken after the excellent showing of last week against Brown, such a reaction is at least unwarrantable. Throughout the game, there was a most conspicuous jumble of plays. The line men failed to open up holes at the right time, the ball was fumbled, the backs were nearly always off their feet and the interference was so weak that end plays were broken up with little or no effort. All this only illustrates a fatal weakness in one all important element-the men did not follow the ball.

At quarter, Cochrane ran the team with fair judgement but failed to get his team together quickly. The signals were given with enough rapidity but continuous off side play caused long intervals between the plays. His goal-kicking, however, was the cleanest that has been seen on the field this season.

The backs were even slower than usual in starting; they hit the line too high and with little impetus, while their formation of interference was as poor as that of several weeks ago. This was much in evidence, although in this instance it was not so much the fault of the backs as a failure on the part of the line men to block off, when Parker was forced to run 55 yards alone. He broke through the line clearly and eluded the full-back, but was caught and tackled beautifully by Gerrish Newell. Aside from this run and Dibblee's run of 30 yards on the same fake kick through left tackle that worked so successfully in the Brown game, the backs made but few substantial gains. Warren played a fair rushing game, but his kicking was mediocre, nearly all of his punts going too high and thus falling short.

The forwards were much off in their play. Newtowne was held several times for downs or forced to punt, but on the offensive they were slow and erratic. Only one of Newtowne's punts was blocked and that by Garrison. Wheeler's game was unsatisfactory. He was careless in getting off-side and nearly always gave the play through him away by his eagerness. He and Haskell were both unwieldy in helping their backs in line plays. On the ends Lewis was easily eluded several times, as his eagerness caused him to over-run his man. Richardson continued his good work of the past week. Newell and Sullivan played brilliantly for Newtowne.

The line-up and summary follows:

HARVARD. NEWTOWNE.

Lewis, l. e. r. e., Newell.

Wheeler, Boal, l. t. r. t., Campbell.

Boal, Sargent, l. g. r. g., Behr.

Doucette, c. c., Harding.

Haskell, Shaw, r. g. l. g., Russell.

Mills, r. t. l. t., Leahy.

Richardson, r. e. l. e., Sullivan.

Cochrane, Garrison, q. b. q. b., Saul.

Dibblee, Parker, l. h. b. r. h. b., Weld, Davis.

Sullivan, Brown, r. h. b. l. h. b., Jackson.

Warren, f. b. f. b., Watson.

Referee, Horton, B. A. A. Umpire, -Lane, Harvard. Linesmen-Boysen, Newtowne; Wadsworth, Harvard. Time keeper-F. Wood.

Score-Harvard 22. Touchdowns scored by, Sullivan, Boal 2, Dibblee. Goals from touchdowns-Cochrane 3. Time-20 minutes halves.

The practice today will be secret.