Nine Still Has Hope-In Another League

Although Saturday's 1-0 loss to Army effectively ruined say hopes Harvard might have had about remaining Eastern intercollegiate Baseball League champions, there's always a new league just around the corner. Today the Crimson squad will travel to Boston College and resume play in the Greater Boston League.

Keeping in mind hope's curious tendency to spring eternal, it must be admitted that Harvard does indeed have a chance to win the GBL. The Crimson hitters, notably Joe O'Donnell, Dan Hootstein, and Tom Bilodeau, have come to life, and if John Scott and Jim McCandlish don't throw their arms off, Harvard could begin to look a little more like last year's GBL and EIBL titleholders.

Scott, the tall and ubiquitous righthander, will probably start against B.C. McCandlish pitched against Army, but Coach Norm Shepard may use him in relief either today or against Tufts tomorrow just to keep him in shape. Larry Melfa, who shut out M.I.T. 11-0 last week, is a good bet to start in the Tufts game.

Harvard owns a 1-1 record in the GBL already with the win over M.I.T. and an early-season 1-0 loss to Boston University. The Crimson's season record is 7-9.

Saturday's game against Army was a mirror image of last year's contest--the same but reversed. Last year, Barry DeBolt, the Cadet's star pitcher, was hooked up with Harvard's legendary Paul Del Rossi in a pitching duel until a bungled run-down between home and third allowed Skip Falcone to score the run, that beat Army 1-0. But this year DeBolt was the victor and it was Jim McCandlish's turn to cry.