Summer baseball will test its strength for the first time on outside opposition tomorrow when a picked College team meets the Middlesex nine of Watertown at 3.30 o'clock at Soldiers Field.
No stranger to the University, the club from Watertown, managed by Ernis Mannino '46, includes in its lineup Chip Gannon, Cliff Crosby, Miles Hunington, and Bill Foster, all Harvard men, who have been playing for the team this summer as well as in the informal games each day at Soldiers Field.
The Middlesex club boasts plenty of experience, gained in the local Paul Revere League and the Watertown Twi-League, where it has a record of 40 wins against 10 losses. Foster, one of its star pitchers, will shift allegiance and hurl for the Crimson tomorrow.
Coach Dolph Samborski is relying heavily on last spring's Varsity regulars Jack Forte, former captain, and Bill Ftiz, who played first base. His squad has been chosen from the students who have been playing informal ball this summer.
The lineup:
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