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VETERAN BASEBALL PLAYERS WILL DINE

Affair to Be Held at Harvard Club of Boston on February 16--Wendell Bat and Wingate Cup to Be Awarded

The annual dinner for all men who have been awarded a baseball "H" will take place this year at the Harvard Club of Boston on Thursday, February 16, at 7 o'clock. Fifty men are expected to attend the dinner, including a number of veterans who have played on Harvard teams as far back as 1868.

Past and present conditions at the University will be discussed at the dinner. The speakers will be Captain H. W. Burns '28, Coach F. G. Mitchell and W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. Dr. Channing Frothingham '02 will act as toastmaster.

Among the graduates who have promised to attend are Francis Rawle '69, who played on two famous winning, teams during his Junior and Senior years, Horatio S. White '73, Professor Emeritus of German and former chairman of the Athletic Committee, who was one of the players identified with the famous nine of 1870, and who captained the team in the last of an uninterrupted series of eight victories over Yale in 1873, and F. A. Campbell '88, who also played on the nine for two years.

The winners of the Wendell Bat and the Wingate Cup will be announced on the evening of February 16, and these prizes will be awarded at the dinner.

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