The freshmen played their first game of the season on the Union grounds, Boston, with the Puritans, a nine made up mostly of Harvard graduates. The freshmen lost from their inability to bat Luce, and through the heavy hitting of the Puritans.

The score:

PURITANS.

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

Gaston, l. f., 5 2 0 0 1 0 1

Howe, 2b., 5 1 3 3 0 1 1

Beals, 1b., 5 1 2 2 7 0 0

G. Haughton, c., 5 2 1 2 13 4 1

Grant, r. f., 3 1 0 0 0 0 1

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

L. Haughton, c. f., 4 1 2 4 1 0 0

Codman, s. s., 4 1 1 1 2 0 0

Luce, p., 4 2 2 2 0 15 1

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39 13 13 16 24 21 6