The University baseball team will play Syracuse on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. This is the first time in many years that Syracuse has been on the Harvard schedule and the team is making a special trip for this single game. Syracuse has defeated Dartmouth in a 2 to 1 game, and has won from and lost to Michigan. They are reputed to have a strong team and Captain Cottrell, who will be in the box, is considered one of the best college pitchers in the country, he having had an offer to enter major league ball. He is a southpaw. Babson will be in the box of Harvard.

The batting order: HARVARD.  SYRACUSE. Carr, r.f.  2b., Giles Desha, s.s.  r.f., Welch Potter, 2b.  l.f., Newhart McLaughlin, l.f.  s.s., Kling Clifford, c.f.  1b., Hand Hann, 1b.  c.f., Schoepflin Reeves, c.  3b., Raynor Gibson, 3b.  p., Cottrell or Dexter Babson, p.  c., Holmes