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...great to overcome, and the purple team was defeated by the score of 5 to 3 on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The game was one of the best seen here this season, and up until the final inning Hitchcock had the visitors at his mercy, allowing only three scattered hits. Up until this time the University pitcher had given only three bases on balls, but in the ninth alone he passed as many again filling the bases. Frye replaced Hitchcock at this point and Hodge, batting for Bowen, hit the first ball pitched for three bases, scoring three runs...
Aside from Hitchcock's good pitching, the base running of the University team was the commendable feature of the game. Hardwick and Wingate were especially fast on the bases, the former's tally on Waterman's scratch hit between first and second being one of the fastest bits of base-running seen on Soldiers Field for some time. Bowen pitched good ball until the eighth when three hits were registered against him, one of them a double. These hits combined with an error netted the Harvard team three runs. Both pitchers were given good support, although none of the fielding...
Both sides fielded in sensational manner. In the eight, Dike hit a hard one to centre field which was labeled for three bases but by a fine burst of speed Milholland caught the ball with his glove hand. It was one of the most sensational catches ever seen on Andrews Field. Ormsby, the Brown right fielder per- formed at similar feat earlier in the game...
Capatin Wingate and Clark also played air tight ball in the field, the former marking several sensational stops of hard hit balls, headed for second base. Hardwick made the only error for Harvard when he droppee a fly in the first inning. Coach Sexton made only one change in the line-up, substituting Fripp for Hardwick in the middle of the game, after the latter had shown some difficulty in solving the deliveries of the Brown twirlers...
Continuing its winning streak, the University second baseball team shut out Newton High School yesterday afternoon, 6 to 0. Whitney and Macdonald, pitching for the seconds, held the Newtonians in check throughout the game. The seconds scored four in the initial round when Coolidge, Harvey, Mason and Phillips hit safely and scored. The other two runs came in the third. Captain M. B. Phillips '15 secured the longest drive of the season, hitting the ball against the Stadium for a clean home-run. In this inning also, Cartmell singled, stole second and scored on an error. After this the seconds...