Harvard's baseball team should notch its fourth Eastern League victory of the season this afternoon when, it meets a weak Brown team in Providence.

The Bruins have had poor pitching and even worse hitting for most of the year, and their only EIBL wins came over doormats Yale and Dartmouth.

Brown has only one player with a semi-respectable batting average--catcher sub Hall, whose mark is in the vicinity of .290. Their top pitcher is Renaissance Miss Steve Kadison, who last year was the fourth leading hitter in the EIBL with a .405-average. Kadison's hitting, however, has tailed off considerably this year but he still has the capacity to whack the long ball.

Either John, Scott or Jim McCandlish will probably start for the Crimson. Like the rest of the team, they've performed erratically this season. McCandlish strung together several good performances, appeared to be the "sleeper," on the Crimson mound staff, but against Penn on Saturday was wilder than a Borneo native. After being shelled in his two previous outings, Scott turned in a sparkling relief performance against the Quakers.

The Crimson's overall record currently stands at 5-8; in the EIBL they are 3-3. After today, Harvard will have nine games left in which to pull its overall mark up to the .500 level. The Crimson has not had a losing season since 1961, and has finished below .500 only twice in the past decade.

Divot Campen was Harvard's only other loser; he shot a disappointing 76, and was clobbered when his M.I.T. foe recorded a par-busting 70.

The victory left the Crimson's record at 3-2, and probably buoyed the team's confidence for the Yale match after its dismal performance in the Greater Boston tournament last week.