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PENNSYLVANIA GAME TODAY

On Soldiers Field at 3.--Clarkson Will Pitch.--Hard Game Expected.

The University baseball nine will play Pennsylvania at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field in the second and final game of the series.

The team won from Pennsylvania at Philadelphia on May 14 by the score of 11 to 3. Since that time Pennsylvania has lost three games. On May 18 it lost to Columbia, 1 to 0, in a pitchers' battle in which each team made five hits and two errors. On May 21 the team lost to Princeton at Princeton in the second game of that series by a score of 7 to 4. Each team made twelve hits. Princeton, however, won through bunching hers at the beginning of the game when she batted Devlin out of the box in the first inning and Caldwell at the beginning of the fourth. Crimean finished the game for Pennsylvania and allowed only four scattered hits. Although he prevented Princeton from making any more runs, the Pennsylvania team was unable to overcome the lead of seven runs which Princeton had rolled up. Pennsylvania suffered her third defeat in the four weeks since the Harvard game, last Thursday, when she lost to Lafayette by the score of 2 to 0, through inability to make more than four hits against Newbury, while Crimean allowed seven. On May 28, the team defeated Cornell, 3 to 2, in a ten inning game in which Pennsylvania made three hits and Cornell nine, every one of Pennsylvania's runs being due to errors. A week later the team again defeated Cornell, by a score of 5 to 0. Devlin pitched unsteadily but brilliantly, allowing four hits and seven bases on balls. The team also defeated Syracuse by the score of 6 to 5 in an exciting though poorly played game won in the ninth inning.

The University team has been going through a stage of rather poor hitting recently, but showed signs of improvement in the Amherst game, owing partly to a change in the batting order. This has again been slightly changed, and, it is hoped, for the last time. The game this afternoon, should be hard and exciting as the Pennsylvania nine is stronger than it was on May 14, and the University team must show considerable improvement in batting if it is to do as well as it did on that day.

The batting orders this afternoon will be as follows: Harvard.  Pennsylvania. Carr, 3b.  c.f., Howes Stephenson, c.  2b., Cariss Randall, 1b.  r.f., Wilder Clarkson, p.  c., Bennett or Hare Matthews, s.s.  l.f., Swain Fischel, l.f.  s.s., Gladfelter Kernan, 2b.  1b., O'Donnell Greenough, r.f.  3b., Stites McCarty, c.f.  p., Devlin or Crimean

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