It would be hard to surpass yesterday's game as a combination of hard hitting and poor fielding. Last year the first game between the two nines with the same pitchers in the box was very close, four to three and a crowd of some five hundred students turned out in expectation of another good game. All hopes for such a contest were destroyed in the first inning when, after two men out, Harvard made four hits one of them a three-bagger, and aided by a few timely errors, rolled up six runs. From that point on all uncertainty as to the result was gone. Dartmouth turned all her energies toward securing a single run, while Harvard drove Connor from the box in the third and made three runs in every succeeding inning off his successor, Smalley.

Dartmouth was a disappointment. The heavy batting of our team discouraged the whole nine and they went to pieces, having no less than nine errors. Only one of the twenty runs was earned.

The end of the batting list for Harvard hit the ball with great effect, the first four men on the list having only two hits among them. Frothingham's batting was the feature. Out of four times at bat he made two three-baggers and a single. The nine, with the exception of Sullivan, did well what little fielding they had to do, Sullivan had an off-day, and seemed disconcerted after making his first error. He gathered himself together, however, and made a good assist later in the game, Highlands and Corbett worked well together. Highlands pitched a great game, holding Dartmouth down to two singles, and doing some great work in the second when, with men on second and third, he struck out three men. Corbett caught his first really good game. He held the balls well, dropped none of the third strikes, and, except for a foolish throw to first when there was no call for it, played a good all-round game.

The score:

HARVARD.

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

Hallowell, c.f., 3 2 1 1 0 0 0

Cook, 3b., 4 1 0 0 1 2 0

Hovey, 2b, 5 1 0 0 2 1 0

Abbott, l.f., 3 2 1 1 1 0 0

Sullivan, s.s., 4 4 3 3 0 1 2

Frothingham, r.f., 4 4 3 7 1 0 0

Trafford, 1b., 5 2 2 2 8 0 0

Corbett, c., 5 4 2 2 8 0 2

Highlands, p. 4 0 2 2 0 10 0

.... .... .... .... .... .... ....

Totals, 37 20 14 18 21 14 4

DARTMOUTH.

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

Tnxbury, 1 b., 4 0 1 1 4 0 0

Ferguson, s.s. 3 0 1 1 0 2 2

O'Connor, r.f., 2 0 0 0 0 7 1

Ranney, c., 3 0 0 1 8 2 1

Smalley, r.f., p., 2 0 0 0 0 3 0

Dinsmore, 3 b., 3 0 0 0 3 0 2

Griffin, 2 b., 3 0 0 0 2 1 1

Claggett, c.f., 3 0 0 0 1 0 2

Abbott, l.f., 3 0 0 0 0 0 0

.... .... .... .... .... .... ....

Totals, 26 0 2 2 18 15 9

INNINGS. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Harvard, 6 0 5 3 3 3 -20

Amherst, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0

Earned runs, Harvard, 1; three base hits Frothingham, (2); stolen bases, Abbott, (H)(2); Dinsmore, Frothingham, Corbett, (2);first base on balls, Abbott, (H), (2), O'Connor, Frothingbam, Smalley, Claggett, Hallowell, (2), Sullivan; first base on errors, Harvard, 6; Dartmouth, 1; hit by pitched ball, Cook; passed ball, Ranney, 1; wild pitches, Smalley, 2; sacrifice hits, Corbett, (2); struck out, Ranney, Cook, (2), Griffin, (2), Claggett, Abbott, (D), (2), Hovey, Trafford, (3), Sullivan, Highlands: umpire, Bond; time, 2 hours.

HARVARD '96 VS. M. I. T. '96.The freshmen could not get through a season, without showing the same tendency to lose their heads, that seems to accompany every freshman nine. They were beaten yesterday by the M. I. T. '96, without any excuse for the defeat. The score was eight to four and in every case, the Tech. scores were made by men who had reached first either on errors or on bases on balls. Ninety-six also batted poorly, getting only four hits off Dakin, though one of these was a home run by Winslow, Nearly all the work was done by Worden, Griffin and O'Malley, Worden struck out fifteen men, and his record would have been very good, if he had not been unsteady at critical moments. Dakin struck out nine men. The game yesterday was in a way a good thing for the nine, for the attempts, all too often successful, to "rattle" them, gave them a lesson in the way of what they must expect at an exciting point in a game with Princeton. The most inexecusable thing was their base-running. With two men on bases in the ninth, they failed to score because too careless in stealing to third. They should have better instruction on this point and should be taught to keep their heads.

Innings, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Harvard '96, 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 4

M. I. T. '96, 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 8