Yesterday afternoon Harvard was compelled to play her change battery and a substitute against the strongest college team outside of Yale, Princeton and Harvard. The result was fatal. The game throughout was played without snap or energy, the batting by Harvard was weak and careless, although many hits would not have been made in any event for Van Wormer pitched a fine game. Williams could not hit Bingham at all except Burden, whose batting was a feature of the game.

Boyden played well in centre field. In the second inning he shut out a run at the plate by fielding in a base hit in short order. A difficult catch of a liner in the fifth inning brought forth the enthusiastic applause of the audience. Blackington at third took in grounders marvellously well. He accepted eight chances without an error. Clarke as he has done regularly for the last six years, at Crown, caught in fine form and did not have a passed ball. Choate had to face an eratic delivery, and although his throwing to bases was poorer he played a better game than he usually does and deserves great credit. Mumford's game at second was steady and sure, where he had to handle grounders, but he was intolerably slow in putting the ball on the runner attempting to steal second. Between them Choate and Mumford did not get a man out at second although they had six opportunities to do so. Bingham pitched a fair game, but allowed two runs to be scored on wild pitches.

In the first inning, Wiestling flied out to centre field; Linn struck out; Willard knocked a difficult fly, which was misjudged by Wilson; Willard reached third; Boyden got his base on balls; Bingham made a base hit, bringing in Willard and advancing Boyden to third; Foster had two strikes, and Boyden attempted to steal home, but was thrown out; Van Wormer to Blackinton to Clark.

In the third inning, Harvard got another run; Codman struck out; Wiestling got on a muffed fiy by Brown, stole second, and came in on a hit by Linn; Linn was advanced to third by Willard's sacrifice; Boynton got hie base on balls, but Bingham flied out to Duryee, leaving Linn on third.

In the fourth inning a run should have been scored. Foster led off with a two base hit but when no one was out was poorly coached to third and was thrown out by Clarke who had feigned a passed ball.

In the eighth inning, after two men were out, Willard made a two base hit, but bent his knee running and had to be carried from the field. It is not known whether he can play Saturday or not.

Williams got a run in the second inning after two men were out; Clarke got his base on balls, and stole second when Burden made a base hit to centre field; Boyden threw out Clarke who had attempted to get home, but Burden had reached second. The third strike of Blackinton was dropped by Choate, who threw him out at first, but Burden had reached third; a wild thrown by Bingham on a third strike of Van Wormer allowed Burden to score; Boyden threw out Van Wormer who had attempted to reach third on a hit by. Brown.

In the third inning, Campbell reached first on a muffed thrown ball by Willard, stole second, and scored on two successive rolled pitches by Bingham; Wilson made a base hit, stole second, reached third and scored on a hit by Burden. This ended the run-getting.

A ninth inning was begun with Allen, '86, at first for Harvard, but the inning was not finished as the game had been arranged to end at six o'clock. Williams had scored one run and Harvard had one man out when time was called.

On the whole the Harvard men had better put a little more snap into their game if they expect to make the showing against Princeton on Saturday and against Yale in the race for the championship that the college has a right to ask. The nine has severe hard iuck, but yet that should awaken it to greater enthusiasm and courage. We hope that yesterday's game will do something to stop the fooling which has been indulged in much too frequently lately. The score;

WILLIAMS.

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

Wilson, r. f. 4 1 1 1 2 0 1

Duryee, 2b. 4 0 0 0 1 0 0

Perry, l. f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0