Nine Slaughters Tech Plays Princeton Today

Everything was cold on M.I.T.'s baseball field yesterday except the Crimson varsity. While Lee Sargent and John Scott pitched four-hit ball, Harvard batters collected 18 hits including a grandslam homer by Gary Miller and pounded out a 21-1 win over the Engineers.

It wasn't much more than batting practice for today's important Eastern League game with Princeton. Paul Del Rossi will do the pitching for Harvard today, with ace lefty Gerry Skey probably going for Princeton.

It was a long afternoon for three M.I.T. pitchers yesterday; they got little help from fielders who committed eight errors or from a catcher who had three passed balls and allowed Harvard eight stolen bases. In addition to Miller's grand-slam, captain Tom Stephenson had a late-inning round-tripper and little second baseman Skip Falcone smashed a wrong-field homer in the third.

George Neville and Jim Tobin led the Crimson batters with four hits apiece; Falcone, shortstop Tom Bilodeau, in his first game in three weeks, Stephenson, and Bob St. George all had two.

Falcone had quite a remarkable day at the plate; he went two for three including his home run, drew four walks, stole three bases and scored five runs. He raised his average to .365, second on the club behind Neville, at .416 Stephenson boosted his mark to .341 and Tobin to .333.

Sargent, who pitched the first seven innings, picked up his third win of the year against no losses. He gave up three hits and the only Engineer run (on a walk, a fielder's choice, a wild pitch, and an infield single). He struck out 12 Techmen and walked three.

With Bilodeau back at shortstop, Coach Norm Shepard shifted Tobin to glove at third. Presumably the same right field, leaving St. George's good lineup will face Princeton today.