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 pitchers of the college season of Harvard and Yale were in the opposing nines, viz., the cyclone pitcher, Jack Highlands, and that skilled strategist, young Carter of Yale. In the ten innings contest one single hit was all that the Harvard batsmen could score off Carter's pitching, while the Yale batsmen could only get in three hits off that of Highlands, his great speed intimidating most of the Yale nine, Murphy alone successfully opposing him, as he got in two of the three hits; Hallowell being the only batsman to score a hit on the Harvard side. Yale led by 2 to 0 after the third innings, and they kept in the van up to the seventh innings, when the Harvard tied the score with two runs, which set the crowd wild. Neither side could score after that until the tenth innings when the winning run was scored by Upton amidst a perfect furore of exciting yells and hurrahs. Here is the score of this exceptional contest:


 * Yale
 * 0
 * 1
 * 1
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 2
 * Harvard
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 0
 * 2
 * 0
 * 0
 * 1
 * 3
 * }
 * 3
 * }
 * }
 * }

First base by errors—Harvard, 2; Yale, 2. First base on balls—Off Highlands, 2; off Carter, 3. Struck out—By Highlands, 19; by Carter, 12. Sacrifice hits—Hallowell, Upton, Frothingham, 2; Beall and Stephenson. Stolen bases—Frothingham, Murphy, 2, and Speer. Double play—Kedzie and Beall. Wild pitches—Highlands, 1; Carter, 1. Passed balls—Mason, 3, Kedzie, 3. Umpires—Bond and Curry. Time of game—2 hours and 25 minutes.

The second game of the series took place at New Haven on June 27th, and the result of the contest this time was "a glorious victory for the blue" as the local scribes had it, and the tally was even game and game in the series. The Harvard again depended on Jack Highlands' cyclone delivery, but unluckily for them Mason was unequal to the arduous task of catching his wild swift balls, and so the Yale batsmen got 7 hits off his pitching, while Carter was so effective on the other side, and he was so well supported by Kedzie behind the bat, that the best the visiting batsmen could do was to get in three hits. But the two teams made a very close fight of it up to the eighth innings, in