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 The best April game played by the nine of Brown University was that which took place at Providence on April 29th, on which occasion the Browns took the Harvards into camp by the appended score. Sexton was in the box for Brown, and, with the exception of the sixth innings, pitched a good game, considering he was ill with tonsilitis. The fielding of both teams was at times very brilliant. The score:

Earned runs—Brown, 2; Harvard, 4. First base on errors—Brown, 2; Harvard, 2. Left on bases—Brown, 7; Harvard, 10. First base on balls—Off Sexton, 5; off Wiggin, 5. Struck out—By Sexton, 6; by Wiggin, 7. Sacrifice hits—Cook, Wiggin. Stolen bases—Sexton, 2; Bustard, 2; Tenney, Abbott. Double play—Sterre and Weeks. Umpires-Burns and Murray. Time of game—2 hours and thirty minutes.

The largest crowd of spectators ever gathered upon Percy Field at Ithaca, was that attracted by the first game of the season between the Cornell University nine and the Princeton nine, which took place on April 29th, 1893, besides which the contest proved to be one of the most exciting the Cornell nine ever took part in, eleven innings having to be played before a conclusion was reached, and then the visiting college nine only won by the small score of 3 to 2. The opposing pitchers were Drake and Priest, and both did affective work in the box, a single run on each side being all that was earned. The Princetons led off with 1 to 0, and it was not until the sixth innings that the Cornells scored a run, and then they tied the score 1 to 1. In the eighth innings each added a single run to the score, and the ninth ended with the score of 2 to 2, amidst the greatest excitement, the close fight made by the local collegians being unexpected. In the eleventh innings a battery error, a base hit and a fielding error enabled the Yales to score the winning run, as will be seen by the appended score: