The University baseball team shattered tradition and manufactured baseball history on Saturday afternoon when it defeated the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the second game of the season by the score of 18 to 4. Tradition was broken when such a large score was polled in the second game of the year. History was made when three home runs were knocked--each one when the bases were filled.
Ayres was the particular offender at the bat. In the second inning, with three on he smashed the ball over Johnson's head in left field for the circuit; and in the sixth, with the same three men on bases, he gave the recently reclaimed ground between left and centre field its first taste of an intercollegiate baseball, and added four more to the ever increasing total. In the fourth, with Osborn, Fripp, and Coolidge holding down the stopping places, Nash did a Ty Cobb in almost the same place. Thus these two men were directly responsible for 12 of the University's 18 runs. Besides his home run, Nash had a clean batting average for the day, securing four safe bingles out of as many visits to the rubber.
Pitchers Continually Unsteady.
Johnson started in the box for the Aggies, but in the second inning after two hits had been registered against his delivery and he had granted four consecutive passes, Sherman was relegated from left field to take his place. The latter's was none too good, and when the dust of the inning had cleared away Harvard had a total of seven in the run column. Four more runs were added in the fourth, and six rolled up two innings later.
The Aggies scored one in the first. Davis singled, and reached third when Sherman followed suit. He tallied on King's sacrifice fly to Nash. In the second, Hall drew a pass and scored when Boyle heaved the ball skyward on Little's attempted sacrifice. In the following inning Sherman stole second and went to third on Osborn's wild heave to catch him. He scored when King touched a slow one to Ayres along the first base line. In the seventh, Davies singled and stole second. He went to third on King's out and walked home after a balk by Whitney.
Numerous Errors of Omission.
Although the score does not indicate it. Johnson pitched fairly good ball for the visitors and many of the hits credited against him were due entirely to errors of omission on the part of his team-mates. He struck out nine men, but gave as many bases on balls and was extremely liberal with wild pitches.
Boyle pitched well for his first time on the University, but fielded his position poorly. Whitney was more fortunate in this respect. The fielding of the entire Harvard team was ragged and the base running extremely loose but these should improve as the season progresses.
The summary:
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