DIAMOND FORCES FACE VILLANOVA

For the third time in less than a week a Pennsylvania nine will attempt to humble Harvard's diamond forces when Villanova invades Soldiers Field this afternoon. The game is scheduled for 4 o'clock.

With the Penn game at Philadelphia on Saturday to think of, Coach Mitchell will probably save his hurling ace Howard Whitmore '29 and send E. L. Molloy '29 to the mound against the Keystone staters.

Villanova Record Poor

The Villanova aggregation has found the sailing pretty rough so far this spring, losing well over half of its contests; but its lineup has seven veterans including pitcher Hensil who played on the 1928 nine which trounced Harvard by a decisive 8 to 0 score. The left-handed Wildcat hurler let the last year's Crimson outfit down with six hits and fanned nine, facts which tend to show that today's contest may yet be a ball game worth seeing.

The steady improvement which the Crimson stick-wielders have shown during their last few games is rapidly placing them in the class of heavy-hitting ball clubs, and despite a rather uncertain start they are rapidly ascending the heights of Eastern collegiate baseball.

The Freshman nine traveled to Andover yesterday and there administered a decisive drubbing to the schoolboy outfit by a 10 to 2 score. Charles Devens '32 fanned 17 of the Blue hitters and held them in check throughout.