MORT WALDSTEIN LEADS IVY BATTERS WITH .550

While nobody was looking last Saturday, Mort Waldstein stepped out of his familiar pitching role to lead the Eastern Intercollegiate League's at-the-plate standings. Not only does his two and one pitching score rate him fifth in the League standings, but his .550 hitting tops anything the Ivy Leaguers are approaching at present.

A week ago Waldstein was not even in the leading 10 batters, but his five hits for nine in the Cornell twin bill vaulted him into a 30-point lead over Princeton's Captain Bill MacCoy. Playing the outfield when not hurling, Waldstein has participated in six of the Crimson's seven games.

Only change in the standings of the teams in the League race is the climb of Penn and Dartmouth to the .500 mark, even with Yale, who last week held third alone. Harvard is still in second place behind Princeton, but the Tigers have advanced 24 points while the Crimson has fallen from .600 to .571.

The entire emphasis of the League battle to date has been on powerful hitting, with the Crimson an extreme example of that. The Varsity is batting .292 collectively, second only to Princeton, but is sixth in team fielding with an average of three errors per game.

Will Play Three This Week

The Crimson Varsity figures in every League game scheduled for this week. Tomorrow the squad travels to Hanover to meet the Indians, who beat Penn the last time up; and then, on Saturday, Princeton will come to Soldiers Field for its second battle with the Crimson this spring.

Leading batters with more than 16 times at bat are:   g  ab  r  h  rbi  avg. Waldstein, H'rv'rd  6  20  7  11  2  .550 MacCoy, Princeton  7  25  5  13  4  .520 Bufalino, Cornell  7  22  5  14  4  .455 Harvey, Harvard  7  25  9  11  4  .440 McQuillen, Penn  9  34  8  14  10  .412 Governali, Col'bia  11  41  4  16  4  .390 Callanan, Harvard  6  21  2  8  6  .381 Zarod, Dartmouth  7  27  7  10  6  .370 McC'thy, Pr'ncet'n  7  25  8  9  6  .360 Clay, Harvard  5  20  0  7  2  .350 Fitzgibbons, H'rv'd  7  26  6  9  10  .346 Turner, Cornell  9  29  5  10  9  .345

STANDING OF THE TEAMS   W  L  T  Pct. Princeton  6  1  0  .857 Harvard  4  3  0  .571 Pennsylvania  5  5  0  .500 Dartmouth  3  3  1  .500 Yale  3  3  1  .500 Columbia  4  7  0  .364 Cornell  3  6  0  .333

STANDING OF THE TEAMS   W  L  T  Pct. Princeton  6  1  0  .857 Harvard  4  3  0  .571 Pennsylvania  5  5  0  .500 Dartmouth  3  3  1  .500 Yale  3  3  1  .500 Columbia  4  7  0  .364 Cornell  3  6  0  .333