Harvard defeated the Holyokes yesterday in a very interesting game, 12 to 2. The was a great improvement over the playing of Monday, in some respects at least. The batting was much more lively, though for the first six innings the hitting was almost entirely in the air. The base-stealing was far from good, several outs being made just because the men failed to slide when coached. The fielding was very sharp on the whole, and full of life.

Bates and Cobb was the battery for the first six innings and played a very strong game. The change from Bates' slow drop to Highlands' swift left-handed curves proved a complete puzzle to the Holyokes.

Driscoll pitched very well for the first part of the game, but was hit unmercifully during the last three innings, getting in the eighth, eight hits with a total of twelve.

Holyoke came the bat first, and Shine lined out a single. He was advanced a base on a sacrifice by Toole and came in on Bates' error. The next two men struck out leaving Tucker on first. In the second inning, J. Sullivan got first on a wild throw by Frothingham and stole second and third. He scored on a wild pitch. This was the end of the scoring for the Holyokes.

Harvard did not score until the fourth inning, when Frothingham got first on Driscoll's error, stole two bases, and scored on a wild pitch. Again in the sixth Frothingham scored on a base on balls, a steal, a single by Hovey, and an attempt to throw him out on Dickinson's hit. This same throw let Hovey to second, and Trafford sent him to third on a hit, and scored by a very pretty steal.

In the seventh Highlands got in a very clean hit to left field, and was followed by Cook with a home run in the same place, making two runs for the inning. The next inning was the Waterloo for the Holyokes, eight hits with a total of twelve, and several costly errors bringing in seven runs, and only two of them earned.

The score:

HARVARD.

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

Cook 3b., 5 2 2 5 0 0 7 0

Hallowell c.f., 5 0 1 1 0 2 0 0

Frothingham 2b, 3 3 0 0 0 0 2 1

Hovey ss., 4 2 2 5 0 1 2 0

Trafford 1.f 5 1 3 3 0 0 0 0

Dickinson 1b., 5 1 2 3 0 14 0 0