The baseball team will have its annual laugher this afternoon at Splinter Statium when the Judges of Brandeis abandon their books in favor of mangling hardballs. Unfortunately for the Waltham nine, they do most of their mangling in the field instead of at the plate.

Over the last four years. Harvard has shut out Brandies three times, scoring 7, 4, and 18 runs on those occasions. The other time, in 1963. Brandeis managed 3 runs, but the Crimson compensated for this lapse by scoring 25.

1966 has brought no change in the Judges' fortunes. They have raced off to an early 0-6 record after opening their season under a 19-4 barrage by Tufts, a team Harvard beat, 2-0. But it was the M.I.T score last week that really popped the eyeballs: the Engineers nipped the Judges, 30-11.

Brandeis's best hitter, Larry Bates, broke his wrist in the M.I.T. game, but the Judges still have a couple of capable batsmen, including shortstop George Frost, who is hitting .333, and long-ball hitter Jim Boyce.

Boyce will probably start on the mound tomorrow--a thankless proposition. So far this year he has started two games, has absorbed the corresponding two loses, but has a surprisingly in-sight 3.60 earned run average.

Any relation between ERA's and runs Brandeis allows is purely coincidental, however. On top of the 4 earned runs off Boyce, his defense has chipped in with 12 tainted ones

On the mound for the Crimson will be John Scott. The senior righthander was the workhorse of the Harvard staff last year but has seen only limited action this year as Coach Norm Shepardd has experimented freely with his crop of sophomores.

Shepard isn't taking the win for granted, by any means,' but he will probably take advantage of the situation by giving some of his reserves a chance to break into the usually inflexible Crimson lineup.