Harvard's baseball team knocked the lid off its 1931 season by crushing a weak Northeastern team yesterday by a score of 20 to 0 at Soldiers Field. The game was, on the whole, slow and colorless and was finally called in the eighth inning because of darkness.

Because of the weakness of its opponent, the Harvard nine had little opportunity to show its power. Northeastern used three pitchers and none of them were hard for the Crimson batters to solve. For the University team, MacHale was on the mound when play began, and with perfect backing by his teammates he held the Huskies to three hits. He was replaced by Devens in the sixth inning and the latter disposed of the remaining hitters allowing only one man to reach first base.

McGrath, Mays, and Wood led the Harvard batting. In the first inning the Harvard captain drove a ball into deep left field for a home run. In the eighth stanza Wood connected with a slow ball pitched by Berger for the other home run of the game.

The summary: HARVARD   ab  r  h  po  a  e Mays, s.s.  5  3  4  2  2  0 McGrath, c.f.  6  3  1  0  0  0 Ticknor, .f.  6  3  2  0  0  0 Wood, 1b.  6  2  3  10  0  0 Des Rochs, 3b.  6  2  1  1  3  0 Lupien, r.f.  2  0  1  0  0  0 Bassett, r.f.  1  1  0  0  0  0 Kiernan, 2b.  5  2  2  2  5  0 Batchelder, c.  2  0  0  4  0  0 Shelen, c.  2  2  0  5  0  0 MacHale, p.  2  0  0  0  1  0 Devens, p.  1  1  0  0  1  0 * Rex  0  1  0  0  0  0 Totals  44  20  17  24  12  0 * Rex batted for MacHale in fifth inning.

NORTHEASTERN   ab  r  h  po  a  e Prester, c.f.  2  0  0  0  0  0 McMullen, p.  1  0  0  0  0  0 Berger, p.  1  0  0  0  1  0 Nutter, 3b.  3  0  0  4  1  1 Carter, s.s.  2  0  0  1  4  1 Tiffany, 2b.  3  0  0  4  1  3 Murray, 1.f.  3  0  1  3  1  1 Cook, 1b., c.f.  3  0  0  6  3  1

McKee, r.f.  1  0  0  2  0  0Johnson, r.f.  2  0  0  1  1  0Groaz, c.  0  0  0  1  0  1Symanczk, c.  3  0  1  1  0  0Corbett, p., c.f.  2  0  1  0  2  0Petrolle, 1b.  0  0  0  1  0  0Totals  26  0  3  24  14