Scholars Abandon Keys for Gloves as Annual Harvard-Yale Baseball Encounter Thunders on Athletic Horizon

A meeting at Dillon Field House at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon will inaugurate four days of coucentrated endeavor towards the attainment of an end closely associated with Harvard's reputation as a leader in American education. Members of Phi Beta Kappa who will report, with equipment, at this hour are to be faced with the problem of atoning for a crushing baseball defeat at the hands of Yale's leading scholars last spring: and those who hold that excellence in athletics is paralleled by excellence in intellectual accomplishment, will feel called upon to do their utmost to enable Harvard to reconcile its claim to academic standards as high as any in America with its outstanding failure on the scholarly diamond in 1930.

First steps in the negotiations for the 1931 renewal of what has become a traditionally annual encourter were taken when H. C. Hardy, Yale '31, forwarded to D. H. Popper '32, in charge of the Crimson team, a challenge to met on Yale grounds next Friday, and an invitation to the invaders to celebrate the occasion later in the evening.

Remembrance of the 50 to 2 outcome of last year's game will lend an element of sternness to this afternoon's practice on Soldiers Field. Superior pitching by LeGore, fresh from a cut in Yale's University squad gave victory to the Elis. LeGore fanned 15 men, while 16 errors were chalked up against the Crimson outfield: J. A. Marcus '31 was on the mound last year, with A. L. Knowarsky '31, present First Marshal, unemployed behind the bat.

There is a possibility that the week will be marked by other epic ball games, as a clash between the Lampoon and CRIMSON editors is hinted at surreptitiously. In the past the journalistic forces have uncorked a brand of strategy that has resulted annually in a 23 to 2 win. This year's contest will find the CRIMSON nine anxious to clear the panorama of college journalism, while the denizens of Mt. Anburn Street, along with the Phi Beta Kappa members, will seek to show that tables can be turned. A contest between managers and batboys is planned for the near future, as the third contest on the ultra-amateur diamond.