DARTMOUTH GAME A YALE PRELIMINARY

Coach Slattery looks upon tomorrow's diamond battle with Dartmouth and Saturday's contest with Tufts alike as preparations for the Yale series only a week away. He is aiming for the Big Three championship, and so is not stressing these last preliminary games. The heated Harvard-Dartmouth rivalry, however, assures a bitter struggle tomorrow.

Seven Lean Years May End

The University has gone seven years without a victory over Dartmouth in baseball, and the Hanoverians have of late cultivated a disagreeable habit of defeating the Crimson in football and hockey as well. This spring Harvard victories over Princeton and the Tigers' decisive verdict over the Green have given Crimson rooters some ground for the belief that the Dartmouth away will be broken. Caldwell, the Nassau twirler whom Harvard so maltreated, pitched an almost perfect game against the Green, retiring the first 26 opponents in order and then yielding two hits before getting the last man.

Dartmouth Record Good

In other comparative scores the Harvard cause is not so rosy. Dartmouth won a 5 to 4 struggle from Brown, twice the conqueror of the Crimson. A 5 to 0 Green victory over Cornell looks badly for the University nine, which took its worst beating of the season from the Red and White by an 11 to 1 score. A 24 to 4 rout of Columbia, another team that beat the Crimson, is only partly offset by a more recent 6 to 5 defeat from the New York college in a return engagement.

Austin Out of Green Line-Up

Dartmouth suffered an unfortunate break two weeks ago when Austin, speedy right fielder, ran into the stands while in pursuit of a foul fly, fracturing a bone in his left forearm. He is out for the season. He led off the Dartmouth batting order and had hit for 280 in 18 games while fielding his position without a miscue.

Captain Thurston, second baseman, is leading the team in batting with a .400 average, closely followed by Bjorkman, center fielder and football captain-elect, and first baseman Harris. The pitching laurels have been shared by Lyon, Edwards, and Barker. The first-named is the most likely to be in the box against the Crimson.