REVIEW OF BASEBALL

The baseball season has not proved as successful a one as was hoped at its opening. In exactly fifty per cent of its games the team has been a winner, a poorly balanced pitching staff and vital errors in the supporting play at critical times being too great a handicap for the team to overcome. The team was also unfortunate in that the two games for which they had been pointed for the whole year and which were really the objective point of the schedule, were cancelled because of rain on all available playing days. These were the Harvard game on June 5 and the Yale game on June 9.

With the exception of the battery the 1909 team showed up a bit stronger than the green team which last year was so surprisingly good. The infield, Brady, Norton, and Conroy on first, second, and short-stop respectively, was almost as fast as any in college baseball, but at third base neither Eaton nor Ryan fitted in with the other three men. Third was a sore point and a weak one all the year. Brady and Norton were among the four best hitters on the team, always to be relied on when a hit was needed, while Conroy on second batted much better than last year and towards the end of the schedule became a factor in every game.

The outfield with Emerson, Daly, and Captain Schildmiller, was strong. The first two, in addition to being remarkably consistent in all their fielding, scored high in their stick work. Daly, a Freshman, got the greatest number of base hits made for the year, while Emerson, as in 1908, hit safely time and again when a hit meant a run.

The weakness of the team as seen at the start was in its battery. Behind the bat, Chadbourne was uncertain but at certain periods awoke to good ball and was better than any other candidate. In the box Mitchell bore the brunt of the work and was really the only high class box man on the squad. When working right he was efficient to the highest degree. Ekstrom had enough in the way of balls, but did not have anything in the way of luck, while his inexperience cropped out at most inopportune times. Ganley always worked hard and pitched heady ball but when once hit was pounded freely.

Off its own grounds the team appeared particularly weak, as out of the eight games contested away from home they won two, whipping Andover 4 too in the first game of the year and West Point 5 to 4. They lost to' Pennsylvania, Princeton, Holy Cross, Williams, Vermont, and played a five-inning scoreless tie with Amherst. On return games in Hanover, Penn was the only outfit that could repeat, Holy Cross,' Vermont, Williams', and Amherst all going down.

Below is the season's card:

April 10 Dartmouth 4—Andover o 28 Dartmouth I—Bowdoin1—Bowdoin 6 29 Dartmouth 12—Bowdoin o

May I Dartmouth—Holy Cross Rain 4 Dartmouth 4—Holy Cross 1 6 Dartmouth 0—Tufts 1 8 Dartmouth 7—Trinity 2 10 Dartmouth 0—Penn 5 11 Dartmouth 5—Princeton 6 12 Dartmouth 5—West Point 4 15 Dartmouth 2—Vermont 3 18 Dartmouth 8—Vermont 0 21 Dartmouth 2—Williams 1 22 Dartmouth 6—Amherst 2 28 Dartmouth 0—Amherst 0 29 Dartmouth 0—Williams 4 31 Dartmouth 4 —Holy Cross 7

June 2 Dartmouth 7— Mass. State College 5 5Dartmouth—Harvard Rain 7 Dartmouth 5 —Penn 7 9 Dartmouth—Yale Rain