Varsity Nine Faces Tigers Today

A year ago, at Princeton, the Crimson baseball team tallied three runs on two squeeze bunts to pull out a 4-3 victory over a strong Tiger aggregation. The home nine had the brawn (a 340 foot, two-run homer) and the advantage of playing before a partisan crowd--1500 cheering fans--but the Crimson overcame these with strategy and a tighter defense.

Today the varsity will need the same two factors, capitalizing on opponents' mistakes and playing smart, sharp, tight ball, in order to defeat another better-hitting Princeton team.

For, when the Crimson takes the field at 3 p.m. this afternoon at Soldiers Field, it may not be aided by either power--four hits in its last outing, nor support--few people have appeared at games to date. The team will have to rely on its one staple, pitching.

And although the mound staff has been excellent, alone it will not be enough. Princeton, with a four game winning streak, will be the most powerful league foe so far, and should not again make the vital miscues which enabled the varsity to win last year and to defeat weak Brown Wednesday.

Since the Crimson attack is especially hard put now, with Dick Fisher, the team's leading hitter, only a probable starter because of a pulled leg muscle, the defense must improve today over its four error showing Wednesday.

Coach Norm Shepard will pitch either lefthander Bob Kessler, or righthander Captain Ken Rossano, with the latter a more probable choice. Both Crimson aces pitched shutouts in their last efforts, with Rossano blanking Army and Kessler stopping Holy Cross.