HARVARD TO PLAY SOUTHERNERS ON DIAMOND TODAY

The Harvard baseball team will enter its twenty-eighth contest of the season this afternoon when the Crimson ball-players engage the Vanderbilt nine on Soldiers Field.

The invaders from Tennessee are generally-represented by strong aggregaionst and this spring's group should prove no exception. Their schedule has been limited chiefly to southern teams, making a comparison between the Crimson nine and the visiting team on the basis of showings against other diamond forces an even more hazardous and more futile process than usual.

That Coach Mitchell has considerable respect for the prowess of the southerners with the bat is shown in his announcement that Barbee, Harvard's first string twirler who has lost but one game in ten starts, will be on the mound for the University team this afternoon. Barbee went through fourteen long albeit successful innings against Holy Cross Saturday and would, therefore, not ordinarily be expected to hurl today.

Donaghy Still in Outfield

Last Saturday, when the Crusaders had Dobens, a southpaw in the box, Sullivan, a left-handed batter, was placed in the lineup to add to the team's strength at bat. He went in for Donaghy at short, while the latter's ability both at the plate and in the field kept him in the game at right field. This same shift in the lineup will be maintained today against Creson, the southpaw pitcher who will face the Crimson sluggers. It is possible that Lord will be replaced at first by Tobin, another lefthanded batter, while Duchin's liking for the left approach to the plate may conceivably cause his substitution for Chauncey, the righthanded first string backstop.