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FRESHMEN TURN BACK HOLY CROSS NINE 9-8

No Harvard Hits Wasted as Yearlings Fight Off Purple Rallies to Gain Hard Won Victory

Hitting in the clutch by Lupe Lupien, Jack Cunningham and Don Prouty enabled the Freshman baseball team to squeeze out a 9-8 victory over the Holy Cross Freshman yesterday in their sixteenth straight win of the season.

Three Yearling pitchers, Don Prouty, Lefty Edinburg, and Slim Curtiss, were used by Coach Samborski to stifle various Purple rallies in a very hard fought game. Harvard box score:   ab  r  h  po  a  e Johns, 2b  5  0  0  1  3  3 Grondahl, ss  4  2  2  2  2  0 Gannett, cf  4  2  2  1  0  0 Lupien, 1b  3  1  2  6  1  0 Prouty, p, rf  4  3  3  1  3  1 Heckel, 3b  3  0  0  1  1  0 Galluccio, rf  3  1  1  3  0  0 Edinburg, p  0  0  0  0  0  0 Curtss, p  1  0  0  0  1  0 Cunningham, lf  4  0  2  3  0  1 Bacon, c  4  0  1  9  0  0   35  9  13  27  11  5

Innings  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 r  h  o Harvard '39  1  1  4  0  1  0  0  2  --9  13  5 H. C. '39  0  0  0  0  4  1  0  3  0 8  12  2

Struck out--by Prouty 3, Edinburg 3, Curtiss 1. Base on balls--of Prouty 4, Curtiss 1. Two base hit--Grondahl. Three base hit--Cunningham.

Jayvees Win 4-2

Staging a late uprising featured by a double and triple by John J. Sullivan '38, the Junior Varsity nine squeezed through to 4-2 victory over Boston Latin School here yesterday.

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John Mahoney went the route for the Crimson allowing three hits, a number equal to that garnered by the home force.

The Harvard box score:   ab  r  h  po  a  e Ulin, lf  3  0  0  1  1  0 Lewis, lf  1  0  0  0  0  0 Stevens, rf  3  0  0  0  0  0 Gray 1b  1  0  0  2  0  0 Connolly, ss  3  1  1  3  1  0 Regan, 2b  3  2  0  3  1  0 Sullivan, J., 3b  4  1  2  2  3  0 Stuart, cf  2  0  0  0  1  0 Mahoney, G., cf  0  0  0  0  0  1 Sullivan, R., 1b  2  0  0  7  0  1 Herman, rf  0  0  0  0  0  0 Linchitz, c  3  0  0  6  0  0 Mahoney, J., p  3  0  0  3  4  0   28  4  3  27  11  2

Innings:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 r  h  e Harvard  0  0  0  0  0  3  0  1  x--4  3  2 Boston Latin  0  1  0  0  1  0  0  0  0--2  3  3

Two-base hits--Sullivan, J., Keyes. Three-base hit--Sullivan, J. Struck out--by Mahoney 5, by Alkon, by Dacey. Bases on balls--off Alkon, off Dacey 2. Losing pitcher--Dacey (last four innings).

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