BASEBALL TEAM MAKES FAIR SPRING SHOWING

Outclassed by well-conditioned Southern nines, the varsity baseball club on their annual spring trip dropped successive games to North Carolina, duke, and Navy to show only one win, that over the Naval Training Station.

Sun-baked southern diamonds and springy turf played havoc with an indoor-trained infield and outfield, and accounted for the dropping of more than one nip-and-tuck slugfest. Weeks ahead of the Crimson players in condition, and playing on home grounds, Tar Heels, Blue Devils, and Middies successively got the breaks to take hard fighting Harvard into camp

Swamp Naval Base

Floyd Stahl's charges got off to a good start Monday against the Naval Training Station at Norfolk, Virginia, crushing them to the tune of a 15-2 score. Slim Curtiss, Charlie Brackett and Jack Schwede shared the pitching assignment, with Curtiss carrying off top honors. Reino Grondahl smashed out a three-bagger and two singles in six trips to the plate. Bill Tully hit Harvard's lone home run of the series.

Errorless fielding and flawless judgement might have produced a win against North Carolina, but the outdoor practice since February 15, spelled a 16-12 defeat for Harvard. Healey pitched well for the losers.

Duke Edges Crimson

Coach Stahl sent Captain Art Johns in to pitch against the Duke Dovlia at Durham; his strategy almost succeeded, the Crimson foreign the hard-hitting home team to the limit before losing 12-10.

The Blue Devlis were all not to have a busman's holiday at the expense of any fastball pitching Harvard could offer, but John's "nothing ball" and a loose game kept the tourists on a par with Duke until the seventh, when the potent opposition pounded out three runs to clinch the slugfest.

Brackett started on the mound against Nave, since the Georgetown tilt was rained out. Curtiss relieved him in the third, and after a shaky start, settled down to pitch a good brand of ball.

The damage was already done, however, and the Navy hold their lead to win handily, 9-5. Only Crimson rally came in the ninth, with three runs rattling across the plate against the high ranking veteran Middy team.

The composite box score;

  ab  h  po  a  eJohns, 2b, ss, p  17  7  3  9  1Gannett, cf  17  4  4  0  0Grondahl, 3b  19  7  3  7  1Lupien, 1b  17  7  49  0  1Soltz, rf  9  3  1  0  1Hoye, lf  14  4  4  0  0Tully, rf  20  2  7  0  1Heckel, 2b  13  4  4  9  0Keyes, ss  4  2  3  4  2Fulton, c  12  3  13  1  4Callucio, c  2  0  5  1  0Boston, c  0  0  1  1  0Healey, p  5  2  0  6  0Curtiss p  3  1  0  3  0Brackett, p  1  0  0  3  0Schwede, p  1  0  0  1  0  154  46  97  45  1