The nine played the Worcester New England League team at Worcester yesterday, and suffered a bad defeat. For the first four innings Harvard played steadily, but after that a large number of errors were made. The professional coaching of their opponents, and the continual shouting of the crowd seemed to rattle the Harvard players, for nearly all the men fumbled badly. Harvard batted finely all through the game, and had the base running been a trifle sharper two or more runs would have been added to the score. The outfielders did not seem to be able to play their positions. They allowed several balls to drop between them with very feeble attempts at a put out. The change of Dean to second base and Mumford to short stop is a good one, although Mumford needs much practice in his position.

The Worcester team played well and their batting was terrific. Appended is the score.

WORCESTER.A.B. R. B.H. T.B. P.O. A. E.

Bradley, s. s. 6 3 3 4 0 0 0

Campion, 1b 6 2 3 7 7 1 0

Meister, 2b 6 3 2 4 1 2 1

Scheffer, r. f. 3 3 2 4 1 0 0

Cudworth, c. f. 6 1 1 2 4 0 2

Sullivan, 3b 6 1 2 2 1 1 2

Annis, l. f. 6 3 4 4 2 0 0

Terrien, c 6 1 2 2 9 3 0

Stafford, p 5 2 1 1 2 10 1

Totals. 50 19 20 30 27 17 6