Short Schedule Faced By Crimson Ball Team

With the prospect of a scant three week schedule and only a handful of games, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson diamond aspirants are rounding into shape these days in the damp confines of Briggs Cage, anxiously awaiting the arrival of warmer weather. Yesterday saw the first practice contest, a four inning affair in which the B nine handed the A squad a 4 to 0 beating.

Although no official schedule has been released as yet, it is expected that the Varsity will play its first game on or about April 10, with battles scheduled for all of that month. The Yale game is listed definitely for New Haven on May 1, and that may well be the final Crimson encounter.

Fitzgibbons Now Catcher

Stahl has a fair sprinkling of veterans still on hand, and it is around these men that he intends to mold his 1943 club. Ned Fitzgibbons, the team's foremost slugger, who has played at first base and in the outfield for Harvard, has been shifted to the catcher's job, a post where he is more at home.

Mound veterans include right-handers Warren "Moe" Berg, Jack Farley (who looked very good yesterday), Joe Phelan, Brendon Reilly, Dick Harding (just returned from the rink wars), and Bud Mains. Reilly and Mains played Freshman ball last spring.

Supplementing Fitzgibbons behind the bast are Paul delahoyde, Gerry Callanan, Paul Quinn, Bob Axtell, and Freshman Billy Harding, also a fugitive from the Skating Club. Delahoyde and Callanan saw action for Stahal last season.

The left side of the A team infield is manned by veterans: Jim Gallagher is at third, with Jay Gleason, utility infielder in 1942, at short Jack Forte, Freshman brother of the Crimson football captain, is the current occupant of the keystone sack. A smooth fielder the short stocky Yearling has a good arm. "Red" Wilcox, a pitcher last year, is now at first base.

The outfield situation is all a muddle. Only Brooks Heath has returned from last year's garden crew, and the boys are fighting it out for the other posts. Since practice in the Cage can give Stahl little idea of the fielding capabilities of his hopefuls, April and spring weather should help determine the makeup of the outer defense.

On the B squad, as they lined up yesterday, are Freshman Jim Slattery, a lean gent who looks like he can hit, at first base, Albie Everts, puck-Chaser who hasn't played baseball since Freshman year, at second, Wally Sorgi a yearling who also pitches some, at short, and Brewster Wolfe, ex-Jayvee basketeer, at the hot corner.