When the crimson baseball men meet the Tigers at 3 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field they will be up against the hardest proposition they have faced all season, with the exception of the Holy Cross team, by which they were defeated 3-1, although playing nearly at the top of their form. This afternoon they will have to show as good and better baseball than they did against the Purple in order to make Princeton fight an up-hill battle for the rest of the series.

Declared early in the season by many authorities to be the fastest team seen at Princeton in recent years, the Orange and Black has made a record that is far Starting with a defeat by the Navy in their opening game, the Tigers came up from behind in the next contest in time to beat Bowdoin, but in the following struggle with Holy Cross suffered a reverse. That was enough, however, to put the necessary punch into the Princeton players, and they proved their real power by chalking up ten straight victories. Whether they have since taken a slump, or whether their recent opponents have been far superior to their previous ones is hard to say, but their last three games have yielded only one victory--that over Williams by the score of 8-2.

Dartmouth Shut Out Tigers

Penn State was the first to break the Tigers' winning streak, taking an extra-inning game by the score of 6-5 on May 11. The last game Princeton played before coming to Cambridge resulted in a 2-0 shut-out by Dartmouth. Tracey, pitching for the Green, held his opponents to six scattered hits, and walked only two men, while although Dartmouth gathered but two hits off the Princeton moundsmen, Jeffries, of the latter, helped the Green victory considerably by giving six Hanoverians free passage to first.

Hitting is the department of the game in which today's visitors are particularly powerful. It was heavy slugging that brought them out in the lead over the University of Pennsylvania in both games with that nine, MacPhee featuring the first game with a home run and a three-base hit. He, together with Botting, Berg and Captain Fisher, has led the Princeton batting record throughout the season.