Golfers Wade to Fourth In Championship Meet

It was pouring rain at 9 a.m. yesterday morning as the Harvard golf team dived into the first hole of the Greater Boston Collegiate Championship. Sloshing about with little success, they emerged four hours later in fourth place, with a combined score almost 20 strokes behind first place Tufts.

"It was a disappointing performance," said Crimson Captain Jim Campen, who yesterday lamented the fact because Harvard had beaten both Tufts and second place Boston College earlier in the season. Campen's score of 86 was the best of the day for the Crimson.

The six team tournament, originally scheduled for 36 holes, was limited to 18, although by noon the skies had cleared and it would have been possible, according to Manager Doug Mercer, to play a second round.

Nevertheless, the soggy weather wasn't new to the Crimson. In Philadelphia on Friday it was raining softly but steadily as Harvard beat Columbia 5-2 and lost to Pennsylvania 7-0 in a three-team match.

Play in Philadelphia was easier; Stephen, Bergman and Jim Buchanan both shot lows of 77. Bergman, playing fifth man, came the closest to winning both of his matches, beating his Columbia opponent 4 and 3 and then being edged by the Pennsylvania man one up on the 19th hole. Campen, playing second man, had to hole a last minute 20-foot birdie putt in order to nip his Columbia opponent.

Weatherworn

The Harvard five-some, according to Mercer, were bothered more by the weather yesterday than Tufts, B.C., or third place Northeastern. In this same tournament played against the same opponents on the same Weston course last fall, Harvard won easily as Campen and first man Brian McGuinn tied for tournament honors with low scores of 15.

Playing the seventh hole yesterday, Mashie Campen was forced to hit a shot with his right leg knee-deep in a pond. "But by then," Campen recalled, "I didn't even notice."