The nine is to be congratulated on its victory of yesterday. Handicapped as it was, by the loss of two of its best men, it made an excellent showing for the first championship game of the year. The change battery surpassed the expectations of the most sanguine, showing up much better than the regular Brown battery. The fielding of the nine was very good, even for a nine which is noted for its fielding, while the batting was quite heavy. The only thing that marred the playing of the Harvard nine was the poor base-running, several points being lost by reckless coaching. In this one respect the playing of the nine should be much improved before we meet such opponents as Yale or Princeton, whose superiority in this respect is well known. The exhibition of umpiring was unparalleled, many of the decisions being so absurd as to excite the derision of the spectators.
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