The Quantico Marines, Georgetown, and Navy are expected to provide the toughest games of a tough week. The Leathernecks are coached by Captain Raymond "Hap" Spuhler, who learned his baseball at Duke from Jack Coombs, the former great Philadelphia Athletics' pitcher. Coombs and McInnis played together with the A's.

The Marines won six service championships last year, including the coveted All-Navy title for the second year in a row. Twelve lettermen are returning from last year's squad which registered a 19-8 record against college teams, won 99 out of its 121 games, and was never shut out. It played some of the leading college baseball teams, including Michigan, Ohio State, Georgetown, Duke, Virginia, and Maryland.

Navy Game Most Important

Georgetown's victory over Dartmouth, defending Eastern Intercollegiate League champs, speaks for itself. The Navy game next Saturday is the official League opener and the Middles, although they lost the loop's second best, pitcher when they lost Ronnie Burton, are still potent.

The sailors led the League last year in team fielding with a phenomenal 966 average and wound up second in the standings behind Yale's NCAA runner-ups, whom they beat in league play. Their 26 runs in two games indicate power at the plate, but Delaware's nine runs may be significant also. Harvard finished ninth in the League with a two and four record.

The League is expected to be a race this year between Dartmouth and Yale. The Indians, in annexing the Sidney E. Hutchinson Cup (symbolic of Ivy League supremacy) last spring, took their fourth loop title since 1930. The Indians triumphed in 1930, 1935, 1938, and also in 1939 when the circuit operated on an informal basis. They won seven out of eight games last season, bowing only to Yale, which has also copped four Ivy League championships. Thus, both Dartmouth and the Elis will be out to break the 4-4 tie in League crowns won.

This year marks the second in which the circuit will be run on a ten-team setup, with both service academies and Brown back in the fold. The closest Harvard has come to winning a loop title was in 1936 when it shared honors with Dartmouth. This year it may upset the apple cart. You never can tell