CRIMSON TEAMS LOSE ONLY THREE TIMES

Two University baseball teams returned to Cambridge last night after contributing their part to the general success of the Crimson teams on tour during the vacation. The baseball men added eight games to the winning list and dropped only two to their opponents.

Both the first team and the Freshmen engaged in a five game trip during the week. Coach Mahan's men went as far south as Maryland where they won their first three games from Catholic University, the University of Maryland and the Navy, but succumbed in the last two to the powerful nines from Georgetown and Columbia. The Freshmen, however, gained an unblemished record for their journey by starting at home with the defeat of Williston Academy and then taking decisive wins from four preparatory schools. Pomfret, Loomis, Hotchkiss, and Choate.

The first game for the University men, that with Catholic University, was captured by a seventh inning rally by the Crimson with a score of 5 to 3. The Washington team managed to score in the fifth and sixth innings off Spalding but the Harvard batsmen got underway in the seventh inning making four runs for the inning and another in the final frame. The next game, with the Navy, proved to be more of a battle but resulted in another Crimson victory 4 to 2.

The University defeats came in the last two encounters of the trip. Georgetown, on Friday, got, away to a fast start and overwhelmed the Crimson by 15 to 3. The pitching situation in this game was difficult as neither Spalding nor Toulmin could work and the responsibility was given to Andrews and Cordingley, who seemed unable to resist the Georgetown onslaught. The last game with Columbia was probably the best of the trip although the Blue eked out a 7 to 6 win in the final inning by overcoming a two run Harvard lead.

The Freshman team met with very little formidable opposition until its last game, with the Choate School. Pomfret was disposed of by 4 to 1 while Loomis and Hotchkiss took the short end of 12 to 1 and 18 to 3 scores respectively. In the Choate game, the school team took an early lead of four runs and held it until the seventh inning when the Freshmen were able to tie the score. The Freshmen went to bat first in the ninth and made what proved to be the winning run due to an error by the Choate left fielder.

During the trip the 1928 men elected their captain for the coming season. William Barksdale Jones, of Vaughan, Mississippi, who plays center field for the Freshmen, was named to lead the team. Jones prepared for the University at Andover, where he made his letter in football and baseball.

Coach Farrell and a few members of his University track team journeyed to Philadelphia on April 24 and 25 to participate in the annual Pennsylvania relays on Franklin Field. The four mile relay team which was the Crimson's principal hope did not make an impressive showing, trailing fifth in a fairly fast field, and no individual entrants were successful.

The University tennis team enjoyed the most successful Southern trip in more than four years, winning all its matches.

During its recent stay in Pinehurst, the University polo team, composed of R. A. Pinkerton '27, W. H. White '28, Alexander Shaw '28, and F. D. Stranahan '26, met and defeated the Sand Hill Polo Club on two successive occasions:

The University lacrosse team lost the first of its two games to Syracuse 3 to 1, and won from Colgate 6 to 0.