WESLEYAN NINE IS EASY FOR CRIMSON

The University baseball team found its tenth victim out of twelve starts by batting out an 11 to 1 win over Wesleyan yesterday afternoon.

The Connecticut team furnished little opposition in any way for the Crimson ballplayers. Three Wesleyan pitchers were pounded for a grand total of 16 hits, numbering in the collection a home run, three triples and a double. Five errors coming at stages in the game when they would prove most costly did not help the losers to keep down the Crimson total.

On the other hand, R. R. Ketchum '29, who went the full nine innings on the mound for Harvard, allowed but five widely scattered hits and struck-out seven of the visiting batters. He was in full control of the game at all stages, and would have shut-out Wesleyan if his support had not eased up momentarily in the eight inning.

The Crimson nine scored first in the opening frame when three walks and a sacrifice hit scored Jones. Thereafter Harvard added other tallies in the odd innings until the fifth when Coach Mitchell's sluggers went on a rampage. Chase, Lord, and Chauncey, of the first four men to come to the plate in that canto, hit Thomas for clean singles. An error in centerfield on Ullman's hit brought in several runs and placed Ullman on second. Donaghy followed with a smashing single. The Wesleyan infielders tossed the ball around a while and when they were through Ullman had scored and Donaghy was sitting on third, Ketchum did not let Donaghy remain long on the third sack, however, cleaning him off with a long homerun over the centerfield's head, and swelling the Crimson total to eight.

The one-sided contest kept on in but a slightly less violent fashion for the remaining frames.

Chase, with a triple, a double, and a single wielded the most potent bat on the Crimson nine.

The playwrights are for the most part fortunate in their cast. But there is slight difference of opinion among the players. Some of them have obviously been brought up in the tradition in which Mr. Shakespeare was brought up, and play it with the gestures which distinguish that famous Shakespearean actor, Mr. Jewett, while others affect the musical comedy manner, and with a good deal of success. The chorus men wear their pink and white complexions becomingly, but their dancing does not compare with that of the girls, who recall many another road company Boston has known.

It is impossible to distinguish the actors except as they fall into two groups, those who mumble their lines so that they become blessedly inaudible, and those who remember that much of their play is written in that blank which Mr. Shakespeare has undoubtedly persuaded his fellow-author, Mr. Massey, to employ. The skeleton of the verse sticks up like a sore thumb in many places, so that the audience almost prefers the mumblers. But all is forgiven once Ogden Goelet begins his tap dances, in the manner of Jack Donahue, and the audience can take a good deal of punishment so long as Sally Sherburne and Barry Gingham consent to do the Black Bottom.

There is the making of a good musical play here, but Mr. Shakespeare is to be warned that if he intends the writing of other musical shows he must abandon the manner ob his problem plays and his costume drama and buy himself front row seats for "Peggy Ann.