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Princeton won its series with Harvard last Saturday by defeating the nine in the second game by a score of 9 to 2. From a Princeton standpoint it was a good game, but to Harvard it was discouraging, to say the least...
After the first defeat at Princeton it was expected that the men would brace up and play good ball, but a Harvard team has seldom shown poorer form in a big game than the nine last Saturday. Not only was the batting and fielding weak, but the men were listless and on several occasions showed the poorest kind of judgment in the handling of hits and in backing up the bases...
Harvard plays Princeton in the second game of the series on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock. In the first game, two weeks ago, the nine was defeated by the score of twelve to two in a poorly played game, characterized by loose fielding and weak hitting. Since that time, however, a great improvement has been made, Exeter and Williams having been defeated in well played games, and although beaten by Pennsylvania the nine demonstrated that it could play a fast game. The bad weather of the past week necessitated the cancelling of the Newton A. A. game...
...difficult to compare the work of the two nines since the first game as they have not played the same teams. The records seem to show that Princeton is the stronger. Princeton was beaten seven to three by Lafayette, and defeated the strong Cornell and Brown teams by the scores of 11 to 6, and 4 to 1, respectively. Before Princeton played Harvard, the latter was defeated by Lafayette 8 to 1, and by Cornell 8 to 5; since then by U. of P. by the score of 3 to 2. The only victories in fact have been over rather...
...game today is the first important one to be played on the new diamond, but the sale of seats has been small as yet, and only about five hundred have been taken...