On the basis of a week of practice in the Briggs Cage, Coach Fred Mitchell will make the first cut of the season this afternoon when he pares the battery squad down to working proportions. At the present time Mitch has nearly a score of men working under his tutelage on the indoor diamond and from this number he expects to drop several before today's session is closed.

The ex-Big Leaguer is giving considerable thought to the battery problem this year since the pitching end of the baseball team is by long odds the weakest point in Harvard's setup. The graduation of Eddie Loughlin has left a major hole in an already none too potent twirling staff.

Of those still available for the Crimson, Bill Lincoln, pitcher against Yale in 1934, heads the list of possibilities, with other likely men in Drib Braggiotti, promising squad member of last spring, Tommy Bilodeau, and Dick Walsh from the Freshmen, and Frank Wood from the Jayvees.

Among the lesser known aspirants there is a large group of Sophomores, including Joe Nickerson, Proctor Avon, Tom Broderick, Arnold Bronstein, Charley O'Connor, Bill McGann, and Royall Victor.

Johnny Campana and Martin Victor, two old-timers, complete the list from which the 1935 battery squad will be built.