BASEBALL

After an early season winning streak, totalling seven straight victories, the Dartmouth baseball team slumped both in batting and fielding sufficiently to lose all but three of the remaining fifteen games to date. In the first few games, the team batted consistently for .300, but now that the season is on, Murphy, an outfielder-catcher from last year's freshman team, appears to be the single varsity man who can reach the former team average.

St. Paul's school was the first opponent of the Green, and fell easily with the shut-out score of 15-0. Brooklyn college fared a trifle worse, 22-0, and the Commonwealth and Crescent athletic clubs in New York were disposed of 6-1, and 8-1. The team closed the southern trip with games with Columbia and Seton Hall, both of which were victories, 8-2 and 5-4.

The home season opened with the Massachusetts Aggies, who succumbed to the winning streak of the Green, 7-2. On a trip to Cornell and Syracuse, however, Dartmouth began the series of defeats which later became proverbial. Cornell took the first game 4-1, Syracuse the second 7-2, and when the same two opponents met Dartmouth in Hanover, two more defeats resulted 4-2 and 2-1. Penn State captured the next game here 4-1, but Norwich broke the series temporarily with the solace of a 13-2 victory.

Dartmouth renewed athletic relations with Brown in a manner entirely satisfactory to the former rivals with two defeats in Providence and Hanover, 7-3 and 11-1. The team braced for Yale, however, and succeeded in carrying off the honors in an errorless game 5-4. During Prom week, the Green split even, losing to Tufts 4-2, and winning from Williams 7-5. The southern trip proved disastrous, Fordham winning 13-3, Rutgers 7-4 and Princeton 5-1. Wesleyan downed the Green in a slow game in Hanover 7-4. The team at the time the MAGAZINE goes to press, is away on a trip to Boston to meet Harvard, Boston College, Tufts, Exeter, and Holy Cross.

The chief handicap throughout the season has been a lack of pitchers, and a falling-off in the team's batting strength. The fielding has been fairly good, although the infield appears to lack the precision of last year's combination. Coach Woods has endeavored to remedy this difficulty by a complete shift, but the effect of the change is unknown to date.