TIGERS HANDICAPPED AS CRIMSON ENTERS BIG THREE SERIES

Harvard starts in on the Big Three series tonight when the hockey team faces off with Princeton in the Baker Memorial Rink. The team left Cambridge yesterday morning, practiced on the jungle ice in the afternoon and spent the night at Trenton.

Although the Tiger outfit trimmed B. U. 4-0 and nosed out Dartmouth 2-1 during its vacation stay in Boston, these victories can never make up for the loss it suffered when a tendon in Stout's right arm was cut in the latter cantest: Tonight it will just be a question of how well Princeton's hockey team can get along without her 1924 football captain. Stout was ranked among the best college wings in the game today.

In the 3-4 defeat by Yale last Saturday the Orange and Black employed the new line-up which the injury occasioned. C. Davis, the regular center moved over to fill Stout's berth at left wing, Van Gerbig advanced to the keystone position, and Scull took up the latter's post at right defence.

The result of this shake-up was a top-heavy team, or one with the preponderance of strength in its forward line. While the Tiger defense was thus materially weakened, the revised front put Van Gerbig in a position where he was more able than ever to raid the opposing cage on an instant's notice.

With little thought of team play, but largely by his individual brilliance and determination, Van Gerbig scored all three of Princeton's tallies, and alone forced Yale into the overtime periods. Before Stout's retirement, the Tigers relied on the wing to wing pass for caging the puck, but unless Coach Gaw has drilled a lot of team play into his new line-up during the last week, the Crimson defence should be able to break up all organized tallies by the Tiger skaters.