NINE OFF FOR PRINCETON

The University baseball team will leave the South Station on the 3 o'clock train this afternoon for Princeton, where it will open the championship series between Harvard, Princeton and Yale tomorrow afternoon. Link will undoubtedly be on the mound for the Tigers, while it is Whitney's turn to pitch for the University.

The Princeton team, whose record up to date shows 10 victories out of 15 contests, has not had an entirely satisfactory season, owing chiefly to inopportune hitting and injuries. Link and Chaplin, the only pitchers to be relied on to come out ahead, have done excellent work in all their games, but at the present time Chaplin is out with appendicitis. His absence has materially weakened the team's strength, as there are no good second-string pitchers to fall back upon. The infield has been considerably bolstered by the return of Shea who was forced out of the game early in the season by a sprained ankle.

The University nine has the edge on its opponents in games won, having carried off all its contests except one defeat and one tie, both setbacks occurring during the Southern trip. In team-work the opposing nines are practically even, Princeton having a fielding average of .935 against the slightly higher .956 of the University, while the batting averages give Princeton a shade the advantage with .243 against .239.

The only teams which both the University and Princeton have faced are Pennsylvania and Brown, the University coming out with two shut-out victories, while Princeton was not so fortunate, barely winning from Pennsylvania 6 to 5 and defeating Brown 4 to 1.