Baseball

With the opening of College after the spring vacation, the varsity baseball team returned from its southern trip, during which eight games were played, at Manassas, Va., Atlantic City, N J., South Orange, N. J., New York, and at West Point. Although the trip was not a trumph of games won, from the standpoint of training, practice, and developopment of the material, it was a distinct success, and the playing of the team encourages hope for a successful season. Only three of the eight contests were won, but in no game was the Dartmouth team greatly outclassed, several of the games being lost by errors that were the result of lack of out-door practice.

Starting with the Eastern College game at Manassas, with no previous out-of-door practice, and with a nine, four of which were without varsity experience, the team gradually rounded into shape until at South Orange a winning gait was struck and maintained, the trip ending with a one to nothing victory over West Point.

The work of the team has been characterized by brilliant fielding, but by weak batting and stupid base running. Fielding errors have been few, but have been costly, the Eastern College and the Princeton losses being directly due to Dartmouth misplays. Donahue, last year's freshman captain, has been the most brilliant performer in the field, his work being a feature in the Princeton and in the Columbia games. Captain Emerson, also, has excelled, accepting eighteen chances without an error. Of the thirteen men whose fielding records were kept during the trip, five have an average of a thousand per cent. Daley has a batting average of 343; but the rest of the team is weak in this department, the team average being only 196. The fielding average of the team is 936.

Dartmouth is particularly strong this year in the pitching staff. Ekstrom has pitched three games, and has shown better form than at any time previous in his career. The Eastern College and the Princeton games were lost through the poor support given him. In the Columbia game he made his best showing, a misjudgment of a short field fly allowing the only hit, and that coming in the ninth inning after two men were out. Of the other twirlers, Gammons and Morey are the most promising, the former winning the West Point game in good style, although hard hit in the Pennsylvania contest. Morey's work has been mediocre so far this season, and he has shown that he is not yet rounded into the form of a year ago. Olsen pitched eight innings of the Penn State game, being relieved by Ekstrom with Dartmouth two runs to "the good.

Steen has shown up as the best catcher on the squad, and will fill that place on the team. Alden will be the second choice for this position, although both he and Steen are deplorably weak batters, neither getting a hit during the Southern trip.

The results of the games played on the Southern tour were as follows:

Dartmouth 0—Eastern College 1. Dartmouth 1—Cornell 3. Dartmouth 5—Penn State 6. Dartmouth 7—Pennsylvania 8. Dartmouth 0—Princeton 4. Dartmouth 9—South Orange Field Club 7. Dartmouth 2—Columbia 0. Dartmouth 1—Army 0.

Andover, Georgetown, and second Pennsylvania games cancelled because of rain.