The freshman nine played its first game away from Cambridge on Saturday. The showing made both at the bat and in the field is so far far from encouraging. This season the ninety-two nine has done little deserving of praise. To be sure there has been but little chance to play good practice games, but this fact is not sufficiently accountable for the circumstance that the present freshman nine seems far below the average freshman nines. The candidates have had the advantage of getting out on the field earlier than usual, and it was for the purpose of getting well under way by the time the team began that the candidates were kept in Cambridge to train during the larger part of the spring recess. This additional amount of practice was surely of some benefit, and it seems hardly possible that the good affect should be shown later on in the season if not now. A majority of the match games to be played are with strong teams and, unless the material is hopelessly poor, the men ought surely to show vast improvement in the next two or three weeks. Unless this improvement appears there is little chance that ninety-two will be successful in the Yale games.