ANOTHER DEFEAT.

Harvard suffered another crushing defeat yesterday afternoon at the hands of the Holy Cross nine, the score being even to one in favor of the latter. The fielding of Harvard was slovenly and poor and the batting weak; in fact the playing, as a whole, was poorer than one would expect to see in a class game. The team went to pieces at critical moments and failed to pull together at all. Rand and Burgess were the only men who seemed to know how to play ball. The former played a good all-round game, while the latter, although making one error, which was excusable, made some beautiful catches in center field. Hayes in right let a hit go through his legs and then made such a poor throw that the base runner reached home. He was replaced in the sixth inning by Selfridge, who had no chances. Stevenson was a little unsteady on first. Wrenn accepted his three chances without an error, but showed a great lack of judgment in running bases and allowed himself to be caught off first on a fly catch. Scannell had an off day, making two errors and striking out three times. Highlands confined the visitors to five hits. Adams at third let one grounder pass him, but his three-bagger in the fifth inning was one of the features of the game. Whittemore's fielding was perfect, but his batting was ineffective. For Holy Cross, W. J. Fox, on third, put up the best game, both on the field and at the bat. Pappalan proved rather an effective pitcher, as four scattered hits were all that Harvard could make.

Holy Cross came to the bat first. Kelley, the first man up, got his base on balls, went to second on a wild pitch, and reached third on a passed ball. For a few minutes it looked as if a man would come in, but Highlands settled down. Curley struck out. Maroney went out on a grounder to Stevenson, and Powers flied out to Adams, Harvard made her only run this inning, and after this but two men succeeded in getting past first base. Whittemore came to the bat first and bunted to third, who threw him out at first. Rand then hit safely, got to second on an error by Curley. Hayes then hit to right field and Rand came home, Hayes reaching second. Scannell hit to short, who fielded the ball to first, and Hayes went to third, but was left there on Wrenn's fly to left.

In the second, Sockalexis knocked an easy fly to Whittemore, and W. J. Fox and McTigue were both thrown out at first. For Harvard, with two men out, Adams succeeded in reaching second on an error and a wild pitch, but Highlands struck out and Adams was left there.

No scoring was done in the third, the feature of the inning being a beautiful catch by Burgess off Pappalan's long fly. Rand, with one out, got to second on a base on balls and a stolen base, but the next two men ended the inning by striking out.

The fourth inning brought Holy Cross four more runs, due to two hits and four errors by Harvard. Curley came to the bat first and knocked a safe hit to right field. Maroney then knocked a fly between Rand and Burgess, which the latter muffed, and Curley went to second. Powers made a single to right, which went through Hayes, who. after he had captured the ball, made a poor throw and two runs came in, while Powers reached third. Sockalexis fouled out. W. J. Fox hit to Whittemore, who tried to catch Powers at home plate, but Scannell muffed the ball, allowing Powers to score. McTigue had three strikes called on him, but Scannell muffed the third, then threw over Stevenson's head, letting in one more run.

In the fifth, Harvard missed a chance to score. With no one out Adams made a beautiful hit to left field, and reached third on it, but was left there, as the next three men went out in order.

The only other scoring was done in the sixth, when two hits and wretched fielding on Harvard's part allowed Holy Cross to score three times. After this inning neither side got a man to first base.

The score: -

HOLY CROSS.

A.B. R. B. P.O. A. E.

Kelley, c.f. 3 0 0 2 0 0

Curley, 2b. 4 1 1 1 2 1

Maroney, r.f. 4 1 0 0 0 1

Powers, c. 4 1 1 9 1 0

Sockalexis, l.f. 3 0 0 2 0 0

W. F. Fox, 3b. 4 2 1 0 3 0

McTigue, 1b. 4 1 2 10 0 1

W. H. Fox, s.s. 4 1 0 2 1 0

Pappalan, p. 4 0 0 1 3 0

- - - - - -

34 7 5 27 10 3

HARVARD.

A.B. R. B. P.O. A. E.

Whittemore, s.s. 4 0 0 2 3 0

Rand, l.f. 3 1 1 2 0 0

Hayes, r.f. 2 0 1 0 0 2

Scannell, c. 4 0 0 9 1 2

Wrenn, 2b. 2 0 0 0 3 0

Burgess, c.f. 4 0 0 3 0 1

Stevenson, 1b. 4 0 1 9 0 0

Adams, 3b. 3 0 1 2 1 1

Highlands, p. 3 0 0 0 1 0

Selfridge, r.f. 2 0 0 0 0 0

- - - - - -

Totals, 31 1 4 27 9 6

Innings, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Holy Cross, 0 0 0 4 0 3 0 0 0-7

Harvard, 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-1

Three-base hit - Adams. Stolen base - Rand. First base on balls - Rand, Wrenn 2, Kelley 2. Struck out - Curley, Highlands 2, Kelley 2, Hayes, Scannell 3, W. H. Fox, Pappalan, Maroney. Double play - Curley and McTigue, Passed ball - Scannell, Wild pitches - Highlands, Pappalan. Hit by pitched ball - Sockalexis. Time - 1h. 45m. Umpire - Mullen.