Yesterday was commencement day at Brown and our nine went to Providence to play an exhibition game with the Brown men. About 200 graduates, undergraduates and lady friends wit nessed the champions administer a telling defeat to the home nine. The game was played upon the "celebrated" ball field just behind the college buildings, noted for its short left field, hilly right field and the stone church at left centre.

Brown presented the same nine which played so close a game with Harvard on Monday. Harvard presented its change battery.

Harvard lost the toss and was sent to the bat. In the first inning, two men made base hits, but were both left on base, so that nothing was scored for Harvard. Brown, on the other hand scored a run. Chase was given his base on balls, was sent to second by an excusable fumble by Winslow, of a hot grounder, took third on a passed ball, and came home on a sacrifice hit. Score Brown 1; Harvard 0. In extenuation of Winslow's error, it should be said that when at the bat, in the first half of the inning, he was hit in the head by a poor pitch by Gunderson, and had to stop playing for fully five minutes. After this, Brown was unable to score until the ninth innings, being entirely unable to hit Winslow's bewildering curves.

Turning to the work of Harvard at the bat, it is seen that the men quite outdid themselves. In the second inning, after two men were out, five successive hits were made and three runs scored. This put Harvard in the lead, and the game was won then and there. Nothing was scored in the third inning; but in the fourth, four more hits and several costly errors by the Brown men enabled Harvard to make three more runs; score, 6 to 1. The fifth was even more disastrous for Brown. Foster went out, third base to first. Then Wiestling made his second hit of the game, a tremendous drive far over the left field fence, and scored an earned run. Singles by Beaman and Winslow, a two-base hit by Willard and three errors by Brown brought the total number of runs for the inning up to five; score, 11 to 1.

The result of this hard hitting was to send Gunderson to right field and Murphy into the pitchers box. There the latter did not fare much better than his predecessor. Two runs were made in the 7th and two more in the eighth. In the ninth Brown made its only hit off Winslow, a high fly just over the fence at left field. Before Foster could get over the fence and field it back, the batsman, Gunderson, had made the circuit of the bases. The score at the end was thus 15 to 2 in favor of Harvard. The work of Beaman and Wiestling in the field was very fine, their stops and throws being phenomenal. Winslow led at the bat with a clean record of 1000.

The score:

BROWN.

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

Chase, 2b., 3 1 0 0 2 0 1

Seagrave, 1b., 4 0 0 0 3 0 0

Shedd, l. f., 4 0 0 0 3 0 3

Clark, c., 4 0 0 0 11 2 9

Gunderson, p., r. f. 4 1 1 4 1 3 1

Murphy, r. f., p., 3 0 0 0 2 4 4

Cook, s. s., 3 0 0 0 0 2 2