SQUAD OF SIXTEEN TO PLAY BASEBALL IN DIXIE

Sixteen members of Coach Floyd Stahl's varsity baseball team will leave Boston on Sunday for the annual spring trek through the South, opening the current playing season at Chapel Hill on Monday against the University of North Carolina, it was announced today.

The nine then meets Duke, Navy, Georgetown, Army, and Columbia on successive days, the Columbia contest being the initial Eastern Intercollegiate League game. The first home game will be against Tufts on Soldiers Field, Saturday, April 13.

Healey Leads Squad

Led by Captain Tom Healey, ace pitcher, the sixteen-member squad includes Charlie Brackett, Burgy Ayres, Lou Clay, and Jack Schwede, pitchers; Bob Fulton, Fred Keyes, Bill Tully, Ed Buckley, Jim Lynch, and Sam Merrill, infielders; Torby Macdonald, Al Pitchford, and Gene Lovett, outfielders; Charley Spreyer and Bob Regan catchers.

The probable starting battery will have Healey pitching and Spreyer or Regan catching. Likely to hold down infield starting berths are Tully at the initial sack, Buckley at second, Keyes at short, and Fulton at third.