Baseball Team Meets Dartmouth; B.U. Game Yesterday Rained Out

Deprived, by the elements, of an easy victory yesterday afternoon, the varsity baseball team will hope for better luck when it meets Dartmouth today at Soldiers Field. Game time is 3 p.m.

The suspicion is growing that this Crimson team is (or has become) quite a formidable outfit--much more so than its 3-4 record in Eastern League play would seem to indicate. Wins over Dartmouth, and over Yale on Saturday, would do much to confirm this suspicion.

The Big Green has not fulfilled pre-season expectations, but will still offer the varsity a considerable challenge. This will be especially true, if pitcher Art Quirk gets the starting assignment. Quirk is an extremely talented athlete, who last week bested Brown's Dave Manson, 1-0, in a duel between the League's two top moundsmen.

Yesterday's contest was one of the wackiest affairs seen at Soldiers Field in quite some time. The Crimson had amassed a 9-0 lead, when a savage downpour practically washed the players off the field. The game was, at the time, in the top of the fifth inning and only three outs shy of being "official." It will be replayed, if possible, some time within the next week.

The B.U. team seemed pathetically weak, and the score might have reached huge proportions had the game gone a full nine innings. The visiting pitchers provided the Crimson hitters with little more than a glorified batting practice. The varsity scored twice in the first, second, and fourth innings, and three times in the third.

Meanwhile, Harvard's Ed Wadsworth merely toyed with the B.U. line-up and received surprisingly good support from his fielders.

A variety of sideshows provided the afternoon's chief interest. In addition to its banjo-hitters, B.U. brought an honest-to-God banjo-player, who entertained both squads with an appropriately-timed rain dance and a sprightly rendition of "April Showers."

Further amusement was derived from the unsuccessful efforts of the first Terrier pitcher to field a series of Crimson bunts. One of these led to a close call at second base, which went against the visitors. This provoked a heated protest from the always-colorful B.U. coach, Harry Cleverly. After asking the umpire repeatedly "why are you choking up?" Cleverly strode to the press row and promised the reporters "If the runner wasn't out by a country mile, I'll eat the damn ball." Fortunately, however, Harry managed to keep his appetite under control.