ELIS DOWNED BY 2ND NINE 9-4

In a game featured by strong batting on both sides, the University second baseball team, with a total of fifteen safeties, defeated their Yale opponents 9-4 yesterday morning at Soldiers Field. Although, the, Elis smashed out eight singles and a triple, the Crimson batters, with three triples, four doubles, and eight singles easily out hit the visitors, and held a safe lead after the fifth inning.

F. K. Bullard '20, who was on the mound for the second team pitched consistent ball for the first three inning, but weakened in the fourth to the extent or allowing two singles and a triple which drove in the first three Eli runs. Two more hits off Bullard in the first of the fifth scored another run, and gave the visitors a 4-3 lead, which the second team overcame in their half of the inning, when singles by J. J. Coolidge, Jr., '20, and G. S. Baldwin '21, and a double by J. Holmes '21 resulted in two runs. The visitors were unable to regain the lead, while the second team increased their advantage by scoring twice in both the sixth and seventh inning.

Holmes, with a triple, a double, and a single, and Captain-Baldwin, with a double and two singles, led the second team attack, while R. B. Shaw '21, at third base, was especially strong in the field.