Working with considerable smoothness and accuracy the University baseball team emerged victorious from its opening contest with Boston University with the score of 6 to 3. A series of hits fortunately bunched in the sixth inning started three Crimson players around the circuit and a three-base drive to left center by K. N. Hill cleared the bases. Small, the B. U. pitcher, seemed to suit the University batsmen for in the following inning with Thayer on base Owen drove out a home run that was ultimately salvaged from under the Freshman grandstand. Small was removed and Burke, a left hander, finished the game in his place. The University's last score came in the eighth when Larrabee advanced to second on Hill's sacrifice, made third on Clark's fly-out and was brought home by Thayer.
In the early stages of the game the advantage lay with B. U. and their batsmen, seemingly well satisfied, with Hill's deliveries, gathered five hits as compared to the University's two in the first four innings. In the fifth they got his range completely when Crosson advanced to second on a wild pitch and was brought tearing home by Sessler, who however was caught out at first. Summers' hit, followed immediately by Williamson's two-base clout, brought in another run. The sixth opened with a forecast of even worse things when Carlson cracked out a home run making the score 3-0. Small came up and scored a hit. It became a question as to whether or not Hill could handle the situation much longer and Cordingly was told to warm up. Small, however, was caught napping off first and the next two men went down easily enough, d'Agostino on a fly to Clark, and Crosson on a weak drive that was handed over to Owen before he was half way to first. Hill's three-bagger in the last of the sixth restored his confidence and he finished the game in good form, allowing only three further hits.
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