FIRST YALE GAME TODAY

The University baseball team will play the first game of its annual series with Yale on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Unlike the University team Yale has drawn chiefly upon last year's material, but despite this fact its season has been an erratic one, including victories over such strong teams as Cornell and Dartmouth and the decisive defeat of Pennsylvania, by a score of 13 to 0. At times, however, the playing of the Yale nine has been very crude, as in the first championship game against Princeton, which was lost by a margin of one run. The series went to Princeton a week later, when Yale was defeated in a cleanly played game, by a score of 3 to 2. Earlier in the season the Yale nine had a discouraging series of defeats, losing to Pennsylvania, Andover, Brown, Williams, and Holy Cross.

The Yale line-up this afternoon will be the same as in the last Princeton game. Five of the Yale men played against Harvard last year. O'Brien, captain and short-stop, Huiskamp, right fielder, and Kinney third baseman, are in their old positions. Jackson, who pitched the tie game in Cambridge last year, is now playing first base, as his arm has not been in shape for pitching this season. His position has been filled by Parsons, a freshman, who has been pitching a creditable game. He held Princeton down to three hits in the first contest of the series, and would have won his game with good support. He allowed Princeton only five hits in the second game. Camp is at second base again this year. The new men are Madden, left fielder; Jones, a freshman, who displaced Chapin, last season's regular catcher; and Smith, a freshman, who is playing centre field.

The batting of the University team throughout the year has been weak. The men have improved steadily, however, in speed and self-assurance, and if they play the game they are capable of the contest should be close throughout. The present line-up of the University team has been developed slowly from untried material, with only three, of last year's players as a foundation, and although the work has often been unsatisfactory, the men have fielded well recently, and are quick to take advantage of opportunities. This should serve to compensate for Yale's superiority in batting.

Both teams practiced on Soldiers Field yesterday, the University men in the morning, and the Yale team at 1 o'clock. The practice of the teams was light.

The batting orders: HARVARD.  YALE. Leonard, 3b.  s.s., O'Brien Stephenson, 1b.  r.f., Huiskamp Pounds, r.f.  3b., Kinney Dexter, l.f.  c.f., Smith Simons, s.s.  1b., Jackson McCall, 2b.  2b., Camp Currier, c.  l.f., Madden Harvey, c.f.  c., Jones Castle, p.  p., Parsons