Nine Creams Brown, 16-3, Meets M.I.T. Here Today

Harvard's baseball team, which has alternated hair-raising wins with agonizing losses all season, long, got a new script yesterday and eviscerated Brown, 16 to 3, in Providence.

The Crimson pounded out 19 hits, eight of them for extra bases, while pitchers John Scott and Jim McCandlish held the Bruins fairly well in check. First baseman Joe O'Donnell, Harvard's leading hitter, did the most damage. He went five for seven from the plate, batted in five runs and socked one gigantic homer over the center-field fence of the Bruins' ballpark.

The game was never more than a lopside rout. Harvard scored three runs in the first and three in the second, knocking Bruin ace Steve Kadison out of the box. Brown sent a parade of five pitchers to the mound, but none was able to temper the Crimson's red-hot hitting.

Today at 3 p.m. the Crimson should have another easy time against M.I.T. in Splinter Stadium. In 21 meetings between the two schools, Harvard has won 19 times; last year's game was an almost embarrassing 20-1 slaughter.

The win over Brown gave Harvard a 4-3 record in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League, and a 6-3 mark overall.