Bruised and bespattered, two doughty baseball nines pulled themselves together on the sodden paths of a Soldiers Field diamond late yesterday afternoon, exchanged lusty cheers, and dispersed homeward amid the plaudits of the on-looking through. All told it was one of the most rugged battles the Soldiers Field turf has seen in many a long day. CRIMSON and Lampoon rose in alternate waves of mighty valor; men went down to die for the glory of their teams, and others went down on top of them; hits, runs, errors were scattered with liberal hand by the gods through this the battle of their favored children, and yet as the fury of the storm faded into mud and-drizzle the score stood just where those in the know had said it would all along: CRIMSON 23, Lampoon 2.

The Lampooners put up a game fight, but from the moment when Mayor Jimmy Walker, or at least some one who thought he looked like Jimmy, threw out the first ball they never had a chance. Bob Lampoon, diminutive southpaw, started the game in the box but being somewhat erratic was soon replaced by Philip Hichborn '29. Hichborn found the going under foot somewhat slippery but on the whole did very creditably.

Although hampered somewhat by superfluous. Lampoon infielders the CRIMSON batsmen had more than half a century of uninterrupted victories to live up to and went right out in the first inning to put the game on ice. After that if there were any signs of cracking they must all be chalked up to the Lampoon's account. The CRIMSON held its own with never a waver.

Score by innings:   1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 Crimson  23  4  5  6  7  4  5  6  7--23 Lampoon  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0--2 Batteries:

Crimson--Sweezy and Harmon.

Lampoon--Lampoon, R., Hichborn, and Hichborn, Felton.

Parsons, ran for home in the first.