ANOTHER DEFEAT.

The nine received its third successive defeat yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field at the hands of the Newton Athletic Association. The score was nine to five. The Harvard nine could get but four hits off Jack Highlands and three of these were made in the first two innings. There were several changes in the make-up of the nine. Stevenson was on the bench and Buckman played first. He was poor on ground balls. Three errors of the five made by Harvard were due to him, and these three errors practically lost the game for Harvard as four runs were made on account of them.

Gregory pitched a fairly good game. Eleven hits were made off his delivery, but he gave only two men bases on balls. Morton, who caught, fielded his position well. He threw to second splendidly, catching three men out of the five that attempted to steal the base. Dean again played short in place of Whittemore, who watched the game from the bench. Dean accepted six out of seven chances. His one error was in handling a hot grounder which Highlands knocked, and was excusable.

Wrenn played second in good style, accepting his eleven chances without making an error. In fact, the fielding of the nine was on the whole good, and poor batting lost the game for Harvard.

For the Newton Athletic Association, Highlands played perhaps the best game. He made three hits, with a total of seven bases; and after the first inning, he settled down to pitching and no scoring was done after this. Highlands was well supported by Mason, who also batted well, having two singles to his credit. Abbot showed a lack of practice, and although he hit the ball every time, was not able to reach first.

Hovey was hurt in the second when attempting to steal second, and although he played the game out he was handicapped somewhat in running to first.

Mason started the game with a single, stole second and scored on a wild pitch. The next three men wen out rapidly. For Harvard, Dean got a base on balls and scored on Rand's three base hit. Wrenn got a base on balls, stole second, and then he and Rand scored on a wild pitch. Buckman got a base on an error and went to second when Hayes got another base on balls. Buckman then stole third and Hayes second. Buckman scored on a wild throw, and Hayes came in on Winslow's fly to centre.

In the third the Newton Athletic men scored four more runs. After Besarick was out, Highlands hit hard to Dean, who fumbled. Mason hit safely. Hubbard knocked a two-bagger, which scored Highlands. By good throwing Mason was caught at the plate. Abbott got to base on Buckman's error. Another error by Buckman allowed Hubbard to score, and gave Warren his base. Warren then stole second, and scored on a passed ball. Harvard went out in one, two three order.

In the fourth Newton scored three more runs. Bowen hit safely and went to second on a wild pitch.

Besarick got a base on balls, and both scored on Highlands's three-base hit. Highlands afterwards scored on Hubbard's long drive to Burgess.

Newton's last run was made in the sixth, when Bowen reached first on Winslow's error, went to second on Besarick's grounder which Dean handled well enough to catch Besarick, and scored on Highlands's single.

Harvard had a beautiful chance to do something in the ninth. Burgess had succeeded in getting a hit, but as his knee was still weak, Hayes was substituted to run bases for him. Hayes stole second. Gregory then went out, but Dean got a base on balls. Rand was at bat, when Hayes foolishly and unexcusably tried to steal third and was easily caught. But even yet there was a chance, as both Rand and Wrenn got bases on balls. With the bases full and two men out Buckman knocked an easy fly into left field which Warren caught.

The score:

NEWTON A. A.

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

Mason, c. 5 1 2 3 1 0

Hubbard, s.s. 5 1 1 2 3 0

Abbott, 3b. 5 1 0 2 1 0

Warren, 1b. 5 1 2 9 0 2

Woodcock, c.f. 5 0 1 3 0 0

Hovey, 2b. 3 0 0 3 2 0

Bowen, l.f. 4 2 1 1 0 1

Besarick, r.f. 3 1 1 3 0 0

Highlands, p. 4 2 3 1 3 0

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Totals, 39 9 11 27 10 3

HARVARD.

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

Dean, s.s. 2 1 1 1 6 1

Rand, l.f. 4 1 2 2 0 0

Wrenn, 2b. 3 1 0 6 5 0

Buckman, 1b. 4 1 0 12 0 3

Hayes, r.f. 3 1 0 2 0 0

Winslow, 3b. 3 0 0 0 1 1

Morton, c. 4 0 0 2 3 0

Burgess, c.f. 4 0 1 2 1 0

Gregory, p. 4 0 0 0 4 0

- - - - - -

Totals, 31 5 4 27 20 5

Inning, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Newton A. A. 1 0 4 3 0 1 0 0 0 - 9

Harvard. 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 5

Earned runs - Newton A. A. 2. two-base hits - Hubbard, Warren. Three-base hits - Rand, Highlands 2. Sacrifice hits - Rand, Wrenn. Stolen bases - Wrenn, Buckman, Hayes, Winslow, Burgess, Mason, Warren. Bases on balls - Dean 3, Rand, Wrenn 2, Buckman, Hayes, Winslow, Hovey, Besarick. Struck out - Wrenn, Hayes, Morton, Woodcock. Passed ball - Morton. Wild pitch - Gregory 2, Highlands. Umpire - Quinn. Time - 2h.