BASEBALL SUCCESS
Baseball enthusiasm in the College this year has been largely excited through the winning streak of the team in its spring training games, and through a monster mass-meeting of the entire College. The Green team carried away each of the six pre-season contests, from Columbia, Seton Hall, Crescent A. C., Commonwealth A. C., Brooklyn, St. Paul's, by reasonable scores, a fact which allayed some of the doubt as to the reliability of the pitching staff for this. year. The combination of players, both in the infield and outfield, is new, but so far it has seemed reliable, especially in batting. The team will meet real tests in the early games of May, when Brown, Yale, Penn State, Wesleyan, Tufts and Williams will be met on the diamond.
The first mass-meeting of the athletic year took the form of a question addressed to the undergraduates: "Is Baseball Worth Keeping?" Various representatives of the team and Athletic Council emphasized the fact that Dartmouth nines, owing to the poor support of home games, coupled with the large expense of all contests in Hanover, had been uniformly losing propositions. An appeal for student purchase of season tickets good only for the baseball season met with some success, with about one hundred and fifty men signing an agreement to buy the new tickets.
The first game of the season was with the Crescent A. C. of New York. The clubmen presented a strong lineup of old college men, who led 1-0 until the seventh. In this inning a long triple by Wanamaker, sandwiched in with two wild pitches and timely hits netted the Green six runs. Parrott was on the mound for Dartmouth and twirled a good game, holding his opponents to four hits. The final score was 6-1. Brooklyn College proved exceptionally easy, and the Green had no difficulty in winning 22-0. Holmes and Doyle pitched for Dartmouth, allowing a single hit. St. Paul's was the next victim, 15-0. Perry pitched a no-hit, no-run game, but the real features of the afternoon were the fielding of Williams and the batting of Eskeline and Thielscher. Commonwealth A. C. was defeated in a six-inning game 8-1, with Kent in the box for Dartmouth. Thielscher was again prominent with the bat, and Wanamaker, Kent and Paine aided the victory with a double play.
Seton Hall proved a tartar in the fifth game, and was defeated only by hard-hitting and sensational fielding, 5-4. Doyle won the game in the ninth, when, after triples by Shannon and Dillon had resulted in one tally, he fanned the next man up for the third out. Columbia presented her usual strong team, but was defeated 8-2. Parrott displayed excellent form, opposing Smith, one of the best pitchers in college circles. Eskeline was the fielding star, accepting six hard chances without a miscue.
