Harvard and Brown played their second championship game of the season yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field. Harvard won by a score of 13 to 1, and thereby tied Yale for first place.
The game was witnessed by a small assemblage of spectators, who displayed but little enthusiasm. Cheering there was none.
Game called at 4 p.m., with Brown at the bat. Hunter got his base on balls but did not get farther than second, as the next three men went out. For Harvard, Smith made a hit, and came in on three passed balls.
Both nines went out in one, two, three order in the second. In the third Brown got their only run of the game. Cook got first on a wild throw by Nichols, stole second, went to third on a missed third strike, and scored on Edgerly's throw. After one man was out, Edgerly drove the ball into left field for a home run. Wiestling got his base on balls, Smith made a hit, and Phillips got his base on balls, but they were unable to score.
In the fourth Taylor made the only hit of the game for Brown, but was thrown out at second. Harvard went out in order. Brown got men on bases on errors in the fifth, sixth and seventh, but their inability to bat kept them from making any runs.
In the fifth, Wiestling got his base on balls, and Smith, Phillips and Nichols made singles, which yielded three runs, one of them earned.
In the sixth, after two men were out, Edgerly got first on an error by Hunter, stole second, and came in on Wiestling's two bagger.
In the seventh, Harvard added two more runs on a base on balls and hits by Allen and Foster. In the eighth, Wiestling got his base on balls for the third time in the game. This, with singles by Smith, Phillips and Allen, and a three-bagger by Willard, assisted by a wild throw by Spencer, swelled Harvard's total to thirteen. Brown went out in order in the eighth and ninth innings.
The features of the game were the strong batting of Harvard, especially of Smith and Phillips, and the remarkably effective pitching of Nichols. Allen also caught a very strong game. Spencer played the best game for Brown.
The score:
HARVARD.
A. B. R. I. B. T. B. P. O. A. E.
Wiestling, s. s., 2 2 1 2 1 0 0
Smith, 1 b., 5 3 4 4 6 1 1
Phillips, 3 b., 3 2 2 2 1 0 0
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