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 game contested that at the end of the sixteenth innings, the game had to be drawn at 2 to 2.

On April 15th, the Pensys and the Vermont University nine indulged in a regular fungo hitting game, in which the home team were defeated by 29 to 15; Cook and Reese were both off in their pitching, no less than 35 base hits being made in the game.

On April 17th, Yale's undergraduate team had a game with the New York Giants at New Haven, which the professionals won by 10 to 4. The same day the Boston champions began a series of games at Charlottesville, Va., against the University nine, in which the professionals won the series by 19 to 5, 7 to 5 and 9 to 8—ten innings—Stivetts pitching against Parker in this last game, which ended April 19th, Bostons only making 9 hits off Parker; in the last game played on the 21st, Boston won by 35 to 13. On April 20th, the Maine college nines got to work at Portsmouth, the Bates College nine beating the locals by 16 to 8. The same day the Colby nine beat the Twitchells at Portland by 30 to 6, and the Portland New England League professionals defeated the Bowdoin College nine by 3 to 2 only.

On April 21st, the Columbia College nine played on their new grounds at Williams' Bridge with the Wesleyans, and the latter won by 7 to 6 only.

Saturday, April 22d, was a busy among the college nines of the country, as will be seen by the appended record of the most prominent of that day's games. Among the games in which the college nines met professional teams on that date, were the following:

The other college games of the same day were as follows: