The Freshman baseball team defeated the Yale freshmen in an exciting though one-sided game at New Haven on Saturday, by the score of 17 to 9. The Harvard Freshmen took the lead in the first inning by scoring three runs, added two more in the second inning and thereafter scored almost at will throughout the game. The Yale team played a hard game from first to last, but were unable to hit safely and successively, while Harvard made twenty base hits. The fielding on both sides was erratic, the Harvard Freshmen making nine errors to their opponent's eight. For the Harvard Freshmen, the work of Nichols at first base was especially creditable, as he played without an error and made several difficult catches. Nichols, Grant and Taylor batted well, making fourteen out of the team's twenty hits. The strongest feature of Yale's playing was the batting of Smith, who made four of the ten hits allowed by Taylor.

The score: HARVARD 1906.   a.b.  r.  b.h.  p.o.  a.  e. Bradbury, s.s.  5  2  0  2  3  4 Grant, 3b.  5  1  4  1  2  0 Leonard, 2b.  5  2  1  4  3  2 Newhall, l.f.  6  1  2  1  1  1 Nichols, 1b.  6  4  5  10  0  0 Taylor, p.  5  2  4  1  0  0 Spencer, c.f.  5  1  1  2  0  0 Quigley, c.  5  2  2  5  1  2 Greenough, r.f.  4  2  1  1  0  0   46  17  20  27  10  9 YALE 1906.   a.b.  r.  b.h.  p.o.  a.  e. Rockwell, c.  6  0  1  7  1  0 Moorhead, 2b.  4  2  1  3  2  2 Scribner, Thorn, c.f.  5  2  0  2  0  1 Smith, l.f.  5  2  4  1  0  0 Carter, 3b.  5  1  1  2  2  0 Thompson, r.f.  4  0  1  0  0  0 Waldo, 1b.  5  1  0  10  1  0 Wheeler, Barber, s.s.  5  0  0  1  2  4 Whittlesey, p.  3  1  2  1  3  1   42  9  10  27  11  8

The score by innings:   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 Harvard '06,  3  2  1  0  1  0  0  1  9--17 Yale '06,  0  0  0  1  1  0  1  0  6--9

Earned runs--Harvard 4, Yale 1. Home run--Grant. Three-base hits--Smith 2, Grant. Two-base hits--Nichols 2, Whittlesey 2. Sacrifice hit--Grant. Stolen bases--Harvard, 2; Yale, 5. Bases on balls--by Taylor, 4; by Whittlesey, 3. Struck out--by Taylor, 4; by Whittlesey, 6.