Four Harvard golfers were edged out the last hole yesterday, and the team to Williams, 5-2, and to Boston College, 4-3.

It was a tight match all around. Harvard's Bob Kidder and Jim Torhorst stood the 13th tee knowing that if they won, Crimson would beat both teams. Williams led in one match, 3-2, and B.C. by same score in the other.

But Kidder, playing number six lost whole to both his opponents, and Torhorst, number seven, beat B.C. but dropped his Williams match. And that was that.

The two defeats even the Crimson's record at three wins and three losses. Williams is now three and 0, and B.C. playing its first match of the year. There were really no bright spots. Everyone lost at least once. Wayne Thornbrough ruined his perfect record by losing to his Williams opponent, two and one, even though he won his B.C. match, five and four.

Brian McGuinn, Harvard's top player, whipped his Williams foe, but lost to B.C.'s powerful Jim Kohoe, tow down on the 18th.

John Hawkins was also blasted from undefeated ranks, and rudely. Both Williams and B.C. clobbered him by five four scores.

Coach Cooney Weiland moved Kidder the way down to sixth position for yesterday's contest, but Kidder still couldn't break out of his slump. He dropped his sixth straight match.

The course in Williamstown in first-rate, but the Harvard golfers haven't used to playing first-rate layouts, three matches preceding this one fought out at the Milton Hoosic Course, Harvard's temporary home.

Weiland said that he was surprised at B.C.'s strength, but he felt that Harvard the match on some bad breaks. "It could have gone either way," he said. "It happened to go the wrong way for