Nine Conquers Marine Batters; Engages Crimson Alumni Today

Five former Harvard baseball captains will be in the lineup and two more on the bench when the Alumni nine faces the Crimson ball tossers at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field.

In center field and leading the batting order of the graduate team is H. W. Burns '28, captain of last year's nine. He will be flanked in the other outfield positions by two more former leaders, George Owen '23 and C. L. Todd '27. H. L. Nash '16 at first base and G. E. Abbot '17 complete the quintet of captains who will start the game. The latter never really led a team in action because the year for which he had been chosen captain found the War interrupting intercollegiate athletics and closing his college baseball career.

The real old-timers of the game, both also whilom captains, will probably be seen in action for an inning or so as battery men working together. They are W. T. Reid '01, catcher, and Walter Clarkson '04, captain and pitcher in 1903.

The rest of the Alumni team is composed of men who made their mark deep in Harvard athletics. J. P. Chase '28, who will play shortstop, was a hockey and baseball veteran for three years and captained the hockey team in his senior year; E. C. Lincoln '22 was a three-year regular on the nine; F. B. Cutts '28 was the man who as relief pitcher in his junior and senior years chalked up three victories over Yale; Wilmot Whitney '16 and L. F. Young '23 were leading hurlers of their day; and finally Richard Harte '17 was a three letter man, playing on the baseball and football teams in 1915 and 1916 and on the tennis outfit for his last three years in College.

The pitching burden for the undergraduate nine will probably be borne chiefly by W. K. Page '31, newly-discovered southpaw who seems to be in need of seasoning before the final tests of the year. If he fails to stem the tide of alumni hits, he will be relieved by W. H. MacHale '31.