Base Ball.

Harvard played her first regularly scheduled game yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The visiting team from Tufts college played a very fair game, but were weak at the bat. Harvard also showed up strongly in whatever fielding there was to be done, but batted very poorly. Outside of batting errors the home team made only one error, and that an excusable one. The batteries, however, on both sides did most of the work, and up to the last inning hardly a man was put out by the Tufts nine on fielding chances. Meade, formerly of the Holy Cross college team, pitched a fine game and struck out fourteen men. His catcher, however, did not support him well, and to his misplays were due several of the runs of the Harvard nine. Howland batted well for Harvard, making a single and a triple. Meade was too strong for most of the other men, however, although Cummings made a pretty hit to right field which netted him three basses. In the infield Soule played a clean game; Lee did well but did not cover enough ground; Bates accepted his only chance, and Dean played as well as usual, although making one fumble of a grounder after a hard run.

Harvard made one run in the first inning: Howland got his base on balls, stole second, went to third on Downer's single to left, and came home on the throw in. Downer also got to third on the same play and came home on a wild pitch. In the next inning Evans got a base on balls and stole second, and came home on Howland's hard hit to left. Howland stole a base, took third on Wise's error at the plate, and scored on Dean's hit to right. In the fourth inning Linn got to first on the baseman's error, and came home on Howland's fine three-base hit to right. Howland scored on Wise's error again at the plate. This ended Harvard's run getting.

Wise opened up things in a lively manner for Tufts by lining out a three-bagger to left-field, sending home Pearson who had reached his base on called balls. Durkes scored the only other run for his nine on Dean's error, a steal and Wise's single. The score:

HARVARD.

AB. R. BH. TB. SB. PO. A. E

Howland, c. 3 3 2 4 2 11 0 0

Downer, p. 2 1 1 1 0 0 6 0

Lee, 1b. 3 1 0 0 2 9 0 0

Dean, 2b. 4 0 1 1 0 0 3 1

F. Bates, 3b. 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

Soule, ss. 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

Bowman, lf. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Evans, cf. 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

Linn, rf. 3 1 0 0 1 1 0 0

Cummings, p. 1 0 1 3 0 0 4 0

Totals. 29 7 5 9 6 21 16 1

TUFTS.

AB. R. BH. T.B SB. PO. A. E.

Durkee, cf. 3 1 0 0 1 2 0 0

Pearson (cap.) ss. 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

Wise, c. 3 0 2 4 0 13 0 3

Rose, rf. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Meade, p. 3 0 0 0 0 0 14 1

Lamon, 2b. 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 1

Needham, 1b. 3 0 0 0 0 4 0 1

Hunt, lf. 3 0 0 9 0 0 0 1

Thayer, 3b. 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total. 25 2 3 5 2 21 16 7

Innings. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Harvard. 2 3 0 2 0 0 0-7

Tufts. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0-2

Three base hits, Howland, Cummings, Wise; first base on balls, by Meade 4, by Downer 1, by Cummings 1; first base on errors, Harvard 3, Tufts 1; struck out, Harvard 14, Tufts 9; passed balls, Wise; wild pitches, Meade; flies caught, Harvard 1, Tufts 4; fouls caught, Harvard 3, Tufts 1; left on bases, Harvard 4. Tufts 4; time 1 hour, 45 minutes; umpire, Mr. Laverty of Marlborough.