Varsity Nine Bows to Cadets, Princeton, Trips Columbia Team

Playing on a level below anything they had reached this year, the Varsity baseballers retrieved only a single game from their Patriot's Day weekend trip. After losing to Army, 12 to 9, and Princeton, 8 to 4, the Varsity reorganized and thoroughly walloped Columbia, 5 to 2, yesterday afternoon in New York.

Chief causes of the two defeats were sloppy fielding which resulted in six errors at Princeton and three at West Point, and impotent hitting which left 34 men stranded on the bases in three games. The win over the Lions, however, showed little of a revival to form, but none was needed to down the league-leading Columbians that time.

Crimson Blows Lead

At West Point, Captain Lou Clay started on the mound and the team got off to a flying opening with Bill Barnes tripling and both Ned Fitzgibbons and Bart Harvey slamming two baggers. By the end of the third, the Crimson was leading 6 to 1.

Then the Cadets caught on to what Clay was slinging them and belted the ball all around the diamond. After the sixth inning, the Army was on top, 12 to 6. Neither Clay nor relief hurler Joe Phelan could halt the onslaught, but Dick Harding held them scoreless after that.

Talcott Tames Squad

LeRoy Talcott, temperamental Tiger pitcher who is now undefeated in nine League starts, commanded the situation at Princeton. Mort Waldstein went the distance for the Crimson, and the Nassaus could not score a single earned run on him. Instead, the lefthander struck out four Tigers, while the famed Talcott whiffed nine. Six errors by the losers tells a good part of the story.

The squad saw the Yankee-Red Sox clash Sunday, and then yesterday went over to Baker's Field and took revenge by knocking Columbia from the top of the League pile. Three major position changes were devised by Coach Floyd Stahl with Waldstein starting in left field, Callanan subbing for Delahoyde behind the plate, and Thayer Drake starting his first Varsity game at short for Jay Gleason.

Yesterday's Harvard summary:   ab  r  h  po  a  e Callanan, c  5  1  2  7  0  0 Waldstein, lf  3  1  2  1  0  0 Harvey, 2b  3  1  2  6  1  0 Fitzgibbons, lb  3  1  1  9  0  0 Buckley, cf  4  0  0  2  0  0 Barnes, rf  3  0  0  1  0  0 Drake, ss  4  0  1  0  2  0 Whittemore, 3b  4  1  0  1  4  0 Clay, p  5  0  2  0  2  0   --  --  --  --  --  -- Totals  34  5  10  27  9  0