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 On April 24th, Harvard beat Amherst at Cambridge by 6 to 0, Wiggin pitching against Colby. The "Pensys," too, took the Wesleyans into camp the same date at Philadelphia by 30 to 2, Bayne pitching against Frost, the home team giving the latter a hot time of it.

April 26th was the great day of the Columbian Naval Parade in New York, on which occasion the Yale nine got shut out by 9 to 0 in New York by the "Giants," and with Carter in the Yale box, too. Harvard also "Chicagoed" the Dartmouth nine at Cambridge the same day by 20 to 0, Highlands pitching against O'Connor. Cornell, too, took the visiting Williams College nine into camp at Ithaca by 12 to 7, and Princeton whipped the Lafayette College nine by 14 to 1 at Princeton; the Yale (Law School) nine also defeated the picked team of the New York Athletic Club nine at New Haven by 7 to 3.

On April 29th, the first game of the series at the New York State College League was played at Schenectady, when the Union College nine defeated the Colgates by 5 to 4. On that date, too, a noteworthy game was played at West Point, between the Cadets and Columbia College nines, Cadets winning by 8 to 2. The fine battery work of Hinkley and Rice, of the Cadets, was a feature. The same day the Harvards visited Providence, and had trouble in beating the Browns by 7 to 5. The Freshmen match, too, between Princeton and Harvard was played on the same date, at Princeton, the home team winning by 9 to 8; the Princeton University nine playing on that date at Ithaca, when they defeated the Cornells by 3 to 2, Drake pitching against Priest. This ended the April contests of note in the college arena.

The most noteworthy college game of the April campaign was that played at Birmingham, Ala., on April 14th, in which the nines of the Alabama and the Vanderbilt Universities were the contestants in a sixteen innings game, which ended in a drawn match with the score at 2 to 2. The Alabama's first baseman, Smith, made three hits out of the five scored on that side, and he scored the two runs; right fielder Hendrix scoring the two runs on the other side by the good hitting of Short and Hunt; the visitors scoring 12 hits off Morrow's pitching, though only one run was earned by them. Here is the score, which is incomplete in its summary: