Varsity Nine To Play Strong Devens Team

Summer School residents will have their first chance to see the Varsity baseball nine in action at 3 o'clock this afternoon as the team battles a Lovell hospital aggregation from Fort Devens on Soldiers Field.

The HAA is pessimistic about the turnout and therefore has closed the ticket booths and thrown open the gates to all comers. Under current plans there will be no admission charge for any of the Crimson's informal games this summer. The Athletic Department fears that the expense of collecting cash would exceed the income.

Varsity Still Shaky

With little more than a week of practice and a single 13-inning defeat behind it, the Varsity is still green and shaky. If rumors reaching Cambridge are true, the Lovell Hospital nine will be a powerful outfit led by a hurler of talent named Walsh, a former Red Sox farmhand.

Bill Hoftyzer will probably start on the mound for the Crimson, but Jim Phelan is liable to see action before the day's hostilities are over. Only one change is expected in the starting Harvard lineup. Catcher Paul Delahoyde will be occupied with academic duties and unable to be ready for the "play ball." Sophomore Hoss Hamlen will thus get his break and crash into Varsity competition. Bill Barron, his competitor, has a broken finger that will keep him on the bench.

Practice Sorely Needed

Coach Floyd Stahl has been going all out this week to make up for the lack of practice time available to the Varsity, which must share its field with Adolph Samborski's Freshman squad. Batting has come in for its full time in the hope that the sluggers of last spring will find their eye by today's game.

After this contest the Varsity will enjoy a respite over the weekend unless a match with some team in the Suburban League can be arranged for Saturday. Next week's schedule, however, calls for three games, two of them away from home.

On Wednesday the team will play a return game with Fort Devens in the enemy's camp; on Friday a meeting with a team from General Headquarters of the First Corps Area is planned, and on Saturday the Varsity travels to Brown University.