They played a college ball game down at Soldiers Field yesterday but the two teams involved did everything in their power to make the fifty odd spectators think otherwise. The Harvard and Bates nines played through nine innings of frigid baseball and Harvard won the decision 14 to 9, just because Bates was the better philanthropist.

There were 26 bases on balls in the game and the three Bates pitchers were guilty of 12 of them while Ticknor, on the mound for the Crimson, issued 14 free tickets. The visitors, however, committed six errors afield that helped the Harvard cause. In the latter innings Harvard also found its batting eye and pounded out four successive hits in the fourth frame and five in the fifth that swelled the total score to near its final proportions.

Harvard had to come from behind on two occasions to win the game. In the first Bates scored six runs largely because of five passes by Ticknor and then, after Harvard had gone ahead in the fourth, Bates came back with two counters in the first of the fifth. The Crimson finally sewed it up in its half of the inning with four runs and added five for good measure in the following frame.

Harvard will play Villanova today on Soldiers Field at four o'clock. Coach Mitchell will keep the same lineup that he used today and will, in all probability, send MacHale to the mound. HARVARD   ab  r  h  po  a  e Bassett, r.f.  4  2  2  0  0  0 Nugent, 2b.  5  3  3  2  4  0 McGrath 1b.  5  1  2  9  2  0 Ticknor, p.  4  3  2  1  3  1 Wood, s.s.  5  1  2  1  1  1 DesRoches, 3b  5  2  1  1  2  0 Lupien, l.f.  3  2  2  2  0  0 Fincke, c.  4  0  0  7  1  1 Huxtable, c.f.  4  0  1  3  1  0 Totals  39  14  15  27  14  3

BATES   ab  r  h  po  a  e Bornstein, s.s.  3  1  0  1  3  1 Coulter, s.s.  1  1  0  1  0  2 Rhuland, l.f.  5  1  1  2  0  1 Berry, 1b.  4  0  0  3  0  0 Cascadden, c.f.  4  1  1  3  0  0 Whittler, r.f.  2  1  0  1  1  0 Kennison, r.f.  0  0  0  0  0  0 Hedderigg, 2b.  3  2  0  4  2  1 Flynn, *3b.  3  1  1  0  1  0 Luce, c.  4  1  1  7  2  1 Marston, p.  1  0  1  0  1  0 Schick, p.  0  0  0  1  0  0 Anderson, p.  1  0  0  0  0  0 Totals  21  9  5  23  *10  6

*Ticknor out, hit by batted ball in sixth Innings  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 Bates  6  0  0  0  2  0  0  1  0--9 Harvard  0  2  4  1  4  2  0  1  x--14

Three base hit--McGrath. Stolen bases--Rhuland, Whittler, Bassett, Sacrifices--Bassett, Schick. Double plays--Marston to Luce to Berry, Nugent to McGrath, Huxtable to Nugent. Left on bases--Harvard 13, Bates 11. Bases on balls--off Ticknor, 14; off Marston, 8; off Schick, 3; off Anderson, 1. Struck out--by Ticknor, 5; by Marston, 1; by Schick, 3; Pitching record--off Marston, 4 hits and 6 runs in 2 1-3 innings; off Schick, 11 hits and 7 runs in 3 2-3 innings; off Anderson, no hits and 1 run in 2 innings. Wild pitch--Schick, Ticknor. Passed ball--Fincke, 2; Luce, 2. Hit by pitcher--by Ticknor (Whittler). Losing pitcher--Schick. Umpires--Stafford and Kelleher. Time of game--2 hrs., 45 min.