Nine Tops Boston College

Harvard got its drive for the Greater Boston League baseball title in full swing with a 5-3 victory over Boston College here Friday.

Senior left-hander Jim McCandlish required ninth-inning relief help from sophomore Ray Peters to pick up the win. The rain-interrupted contest was marked by Harvard's ten-hit attack and sloppy play by both teams.

The Eagles, who could have virtually clinched the local crown with a win over the Crimson, started their ace, Bill O'Brien, but the Harvard hitters reached bim early and often.

O'Brien escaped a bases-loaded threat in the first-inning when Harvard-'s Dan Hootstein was caught off second base on Jeff Hall's soft infield liner.

Harvard tallied twice in the second inning on a Texas Leaguer off Bill Cobb's bat, a long triple up the left-center alley by Carter Lord, and a single to left by Hall.

The peppery catcher drove in Harvard's fourth run in the fifth inning with another liner just beyod the second baseman's reach, scoring Cobb from third.

The Crimson defense, guilty of six errors in the afternoon, helped the Eagles back in the ball game in the sixth. Two miscues, a single, and a sacrifice fly narrowed the Crimson lead to 4-2.

Harvard got one back in the seventh when the Eagle centefielder misplayed Hootstein's single for two extra bases and Lord lifted a fly to left.

The laboriously constructed lead almost fell apart in the ninth. McCandlish walked his third man of the game and after a foul out got the Eagle catcher to hit a double play ball to Cobb at third. But when second baseman Neil Houston couldn't handle Cobb's low throw and McCandlish added a walk the bases were loaded.

Coach Norm Shepard took no chances and called in Peters, who was expected to throw agaist Army Saturday. The strong righthander, whose speed presented an abrupt switch from McCandlish's baffling slow stuff, got the second out with three quick strikes.

One run scored when Cobb ate a ground ball, but Peters quelled the rally on a grounder to first baseman Joe O'- Donnell. HARVARD   ab  r  h  rbi Smith  5  0  0  0 Cobb  3  2  1  0 Hoot'n  4  1  2  0 Lord  2  1  1  1 Hall  4  0  2  2 K'gn's  4  1  1  0 O'D'll  4  0  2  0 H'ston  3  0  0  0 M'C'lsh  3  0  1  0 Peters  0  0  0  0 Totals  32  5  10  3

BOSTON COLLEGE   ab  r  h  rbi O'N'll  5  1  0  0 Rob'n  5  0  1  1 Amick  4  1  1  0 Fin'll  3  0  1  1 S'mon  4  0  1  0 Kitley  2  1  0  0 Plunk't  4  0  0  0 Maher  4  0  0  0 O'Br'n  3  0  2  0 Graham  0  0  0  0 Totals  34  3  6  2

BOSTON COLLEGE   ab  r  h  rbi O'N'll  5  1  0  0 Rob'n  5  0  1  1 Amick  4  1  1  0 Fin'll  3  0  1  1 S'mon  4  0  1  0 Kitley  2  1  0  0 Plunk't  4  0  0  0 Maher  4  0  0  0 O'Br'n  3  0  2  0 Graham  0  0  0  0 Totals  34  3  6  2