Baseball

Opening the home season with two games played with Bowdoin on April 26 and 27, the baseball team has given an erratic exhibition as the season progresses, but on the whole has shown an improvement. The contest with Cornell, May 18, was the best played game that the varsity has contested so far this year.

The work of the team has been somewhat handicapped by the injuries to Bennett, captain of last year's freshman team, who is slated for first base, and to Conroy, the veteran short-stop. Conroy has been troubled with his throwing arm, and only recently has been playing regularly; while Bennett sprained his ankle in the early spring practice and was out of the lineup until the Cornell game played at Hanover.

Ekstrom and Morey have been doing the bulk of the work in the box, the former pitching the best game of his career. In but two contests has he shown any weakness, the Tufts game and the last two innings of the Williams game.

In batting, the whole team has shown great improvement. During the Southern trip the varsity was deplorably weak in this department, but in the later contests the hitting of the team has been something of a feature.

In fielding the team has been been Strong, with the possible exception of third base and center field. With Bennett on first, Hoban was shifted to center, so that position is now ably covered. Rollins is a new man on third, and has shown great improvement since his early games. Steen has done well in the backstop position; in one game only has he been off color.

The Williams game was the hardest loss the varsity has . sustained' so far. With a five to one lead in the first seven sessions and with Davis, Williams' star twirler driven to the bench, the Green lost by the heavy hitting of Ekstrom in the last three innings. In the last inning Dartmouth was still two runs to the good. With two out and two men on bases, Mills knocked a home run, giving the game to the Purple, 6 to 5.

In four games played with Cornell since the training season began, Dartmouth has broken even, each team having Won two games.

The results of the scheduled games played to, date are as follows:

Dartmouth 4—Bowdoin 2. Dartmouth.,4—Bowdoin 9. Dartmouth 9—Mass. Aggies 2. Dartmouth 5—Lafayette 0. Dartmouth 1—Syracuse 2. Dartmouth 8—Cornell 1. Dartmouth 0—Cornell 6. Dartmouth 4-Tufts 10. Dartmouth 5—Williams 6. Dartmouth 3—Cornell 2.