The second baseball team suffered its initial defeat at the hands of the Exonians, losing by the score of 9 to 0 at Exeter yesterday afternoon. The Academy team collected eight hits from Thomas, pitching for the scrubs, while the Exeter twirlers allowed the seconds only three well-scattered hits.

The game began auspiciously for the Academy, their first two batters being brought home by a sacrifice fly and a single after getting on base by means of being hit by a pitched ball and by another single. Not content with the early lead they scored a run the next inning, two more in the third and three in the fourth by the aid of a terrific three-base drive by Wortham which cleared the bases. The only other run came in the sixth when Walber, after hitting safely, reached home after two sacrifice hits by his team-mates.

Throughout the entire contest Sawyer and Booth. Exeter's pitchers, held the Crimson batsmen well under control, not allowing a single batter to reach third base.

The batting orders were:

Harvard Seconds. Gardner (Stiger) s.s., Gibb 1b., Heageney l.f., Lucas r.f., Kerr (Campbell) 1b., Fulton 3b., Hurley c.f., Hoffman c., Thomas P.

Phillips Exeter Academy.--Macaulay s.s., Walber 2b., Bennett r.f., Wortham 1b., MacPhail l.f., Burns (Zarakov) c.f., Coleman (Ullman) 3b., McLaughlin c., Sawyer (Booth) p.