Crimson Nine Wins Fourth Straight; Two Service Teams Beaten, 7-3, 6-5

Only a quick glimpse at the weekend's baseball results are enough to convince any sports addict that, footballs over Soldiers Field notwithstanding, Floyd Stahl's baseball charges are still bidding strongly for attention, with a late season rush that is a complete reversal of early summer uncertainty.

After a lay-off of a week, the team went into action to gain a double success over the weekend, defeating two army outfits, the Lovell General Hospital team of Fort Devens on Friday, and the 22nd Company, C. A. C., of the Portsmouth Harbor defenses, by scores of 7 to 3 and 6 to 5 respectively. The weekend's work brought the team its third and fourth straight wins, all of them over soldier nines, and carried the won-lost tabulation over the 500 mark for the first time this summer.

Freshman Jack Stanton on Friday and veteran Warren "Moe" Berg the following day were credited with the victories, both going the distance.

The soldier nine jumped off to a one run lead in the first, while the Crimson rookie was getting the range. But his teammates got the run back in the second; and from there on, with Stanton banking the opposition for six innings, the Harvard line-up hammered away at three Devens pitchers to add two runs in the fourth, three in the fifth and one more in the eighth.

Saturday's 6-5 victory over the Portsmouth artillery team, with Moe Berg winning his third in a row in extra innings, was an old time spine-tingler. Duckie Drake broke up the ball game in the tenth when, with one away and Jim Gallagher leading off first, he came through with the game's longest blow, a triple over the left fielder's head.

White washed by Lieutenant Ken Goff, former Rhode Island State College athlete, from the second through the seventh, the Crimson exploded for four tallies in the eighth, to even things at five all. '46'er Bill Fitz's hitting and clever base-running featured the all-important rally. Borrowing a leaf from sucedster Pete Reiser's book, after singling he scurried to second on a foul out to the catcher, went to third on Fitzgibbon's infield hit, and raced home ahead of the throw-in when Gallagher hit a high pop-up to deep short-stop.

On Tuesday Coach Stahl will send Moe Berg in quest of a revenge victory over an all-star Fort team from the Boston area.