The University basketball team was defeated by the Washington Continental A. A. at Schenectady on Saturday night by the score of 20 to 15. This was the second game of the western trip. The game was clean and fast throughout. The work of the team was much better than in the Cornell game on Friday, but the ability of the Schenectady team to get the jump at centre served to keep the ball well in Harvard territory. Gilles played a fast game at forward, throwing four of the five field goals made by the Harvard team. A crowd of 1,500 people watched the game.

The team returned to Cambridge yesterday and will at once begin practice for the games with Amherst at Amherst Wednesday night and with Pennsylvania in the Hemenway Gymnasium on Saturday night. The team will be strengthened this week by Linehan, who was unable to take the western trip on account of examinations. Although both of the games were lost, the defeat has served to show the weak points in the play and made evident the fact that the only hope of developing a winning team lies in hard and consistent practice.

Following is the summary: HARVARD.  WASHINGTON CONTINENTALS. Honavan, r.g.  l.f., Christian Fosdick, l.g.  r.f., Tilden Smith, c.  c., Lennon Gilles, r.f.  l.g., Yates Bigelow, l.f.  r.g., Williams

Score--Washington Continental A. A., 20; Harvard, 15. Baskets from the floor--Gilles 4, Lennon 3, Christian 2, Fosdick, Williams, Tilden. Baskets on fouls--Tilden 6, Smith 5. Referee--Yentley of Schenectady. Umpires--Wood of Harvard and Butler of Schenectady. Timekeeper--Coll of Schenectady. Time--20-minute halves.

Following is the present standing of the teams in the intercollegiate league, based on the results of the games played:   Played.  Won.  Lost. Yale,  2  2  0 Columbia,  3  2  1 Harvard,  2  1  1 Cornell,  2  1  1 Princeton,  3  0  3