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1917 TO PLAY ELI YEARLINGS

Freshman Baseball Squad Leaves Today For New Haven.--Both Teams Fast.

The Freshman baseball team will meet Yale 1917 at Yale Field, New Haven, tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the final game of the season. The squad will take a special car from Harvard Square today at 12.20 o'clock and will leave Back Bay Station at 1.04. This afternoon the team will have a light practice at Yale Field. While in New Haven, the players will stay at the Hotel Taft.

The 1917 team has had a successful season, having won seven games, lost two, and tied one. Brookline High School defeated the Freshmen 6 to 1 in the first game of the season, and Exeter won by a 1 to 0 score. The game with Rindge Training Schol resulted in a tie, 5 to 5.

Freshmen Have Improved.

The Harvard Freshmen started out rather poorly, but since the St. George's game they have made an unusually good record. Batting and fielding have been equally satisfactory. Harte has done the best hitting, and in the box Willcox is a reliable man. Garritt is also a dependable pitcher.

The following men will be taken on the trip to New Haven: Abbot, Ames, Ashley, Beal, Buell, Clark, Cummings, Emmons, Garrett, Harte, Hickey, Holly, Reed, Robinson, Willcox.

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The Yale 1917 team has developed this season into an unusually strong combination of players. The team fields well, although the throwing has been at times rather erratic. The hitting and base-running has also been good; in every game played this season at least six hits were made by 1917, excepting in the Exeter game, which was but seven innings long.

Underwood has done the major part of the pitching for the Freshmen, and will be used in the game with Harvard. He allows few hits and has good control. The infield is a fast and well balanced combination, although Captain LeGore is in some respects the star of the team.

Yale 1917 Has Won 10, Lost 2.

Out of twelve games played this season the Freshman team has won ten and lost two. The first important contest was with the strong Taft School team, April 15, which the Yale Freshmen won, 4 to 1. Brophy pitched for 1917, striking out nine and allowing four hits. Yale made six hits, three of which were by Easton and two by LeGore.

Pawling was defeated on April 25 by the score of 9 to 0. The feature of the game was Yale's base-running, eleven bases being stolen during the game.

The Freshman team was defeated for the first time by the Colonials, a local nine, by the score of 6 to 5. Four Freshman pitchers were used, but nine hits, coupled with seven errors on the part of 1917 gave the Colonials the victory.

On May 1 Exeter won a seven-inning game with the Freshmen, 1 to 0. Yale made four hits to Exeter's two, but was unable to score.

The Pennsylvania Freshmen and Andover were easily defeated by the Yale 1917 nine, the first 7 to 1, and the second 5 to 1. It took eleven innings, however to defeat the Hotchkiss team. The latter secured eleven hits from Underwood's delivery, more than has any other team this season. Yale's winning run was scored on two errors and a stolen base.

By playing consistent baseball, the team Saturday defeated Princeton 1917 in a slow game 10 to 0 at Princeton. The Freshmen were superior in every1

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