HARVARD HITTERS ENGAGE SYRACUSE

Relying on the strength of its pitching staff to baffle the Harvard sluggers, who are batting well over .350, the Syracuse baseball team will invade the Soldiers Field diamond this afternoon. The game will be called for 3 o'clock. The Orange aggregation is credited with two victories in as many starts thus far this season.

The University diamond forces are still without the services of R.C. Sullivan '28, who has been absent from the lineup due to a lame shoulder. As a result, Coach F.G. Mitchell will send the same team into action as the one which smothered Trinity Wednesday. J.N. Barbee '28 will receive the call for pitching duty in today's contest in what will be the first appearance of the veteran Crimson moundsman on the home diamond. Barbee has seen service twice this season, in the games with Virginia and Georgetown during the spring trip. Harvard won these two contests by 11 to 5 and 8 to 3 scores respectively, Barbee allowing only 17 hits in both clashes.

Graduation greatly dimmed the veteran ranks of the Syracuse nine. This season Coach Carr was forced to build his team around a nucleus of only two or three regulars, drawing most of his material from members of last season's Freshman nine. In Miner, a hurler of two years' experience, the Orange has a pitcher who has turned in many creditable performances. The outcome of this afternoon's encounter will depend largely on his ability to check the Harvard attack.