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

EIGHTY-NINE.

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

Litchfield, c., 4 1 0 0 9 0 1

Bingham, r. f., p., 4 2 2 2 0 6 1

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

McClellan, 3b., 4 0 0 0 3 1 3

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

Austin, p., r. f., 4 1 2 2 0 5 0

Trafford, 1b., 4 0 0 0 9 0 1

Clark, s. s., 3 0 0 0 1 3 1

Pervere, l. f., 2 0 0 0 1 0 0

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33 6 6 7 24 19 7

Innings. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Puritans, 5 0 0 2 2 0 1 3 -13

Harvard, '89 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 -6

Earned runs - Puritans, 3; '89, 2. Two-base hits - G. Haughton, L. Haughton, 2; Hurley. First base on balls - Luce, 1; Austin, 1. First base on errors - Puritans, 6; '89, 4. Struck out - Luce, 15; Austin, 2; Bingham, 6. Passed balls - Haughton, 2; Litchfield, 1. Wild pitches - Luce, 2; Austin, 3. Umpire - G. Wright.