BASEBALL
After getting away to a late start, owing to unfavorable weather conditions in Hanover, the varsity nine has gone through a successful season, showing flashes of exceptional form which more than atone for the reversals sustained. In the first five contests of the season the Green seemed to have been reserving all its punch for Harvard. In the midst of a string of defeats at the hands of Fordham Yale, Tufts, and Brown, the team collected itself just enough to hammer out an impressive 10-7 victory over the Crimson at Cambridge. On the home diamond things went more smoothly and before a throng of Prom guests Coach Tesreau's men hung up clean-cut victories over Columbia and Penn.
Rutgers proved an easy victim May 18 in the first game played on the next trip South.
Penn's pitchers proved too strong in the return game, and the Red and Blue evened the count for the season at Philadelphia. The varsity then again struck, its stride, defeated Norwich at home, and took games from Amherst and Columbia on the Memorial Day trip. Holy Cross overcame a big Green lead and came out on top in an 11-9 batfest. Dartmouth dropped the most exciting contest of the season to the visitors from California, but took into camp with comparative ease the last three opponents, Tufts, Williams, and University of Vermont.
As Coach Tesreau anticipated, a dearth of dependable pitchers has proved the big problem for Dartmouth this season. Captain Merritt and Ross, the reversable battery, have assumed the burden of the work, although Harris proved effective in his single full-time appearance on the mound. Unlike Dartmouth nines of former years, the team has been consistently stronger at bat than in the field. Costly errors have marred the play on various occasions and have been in large part responsible for a number of defeats. On the other hand at bat Dartmouth has proved a source of worry to practically every pitcher faced. Captain Merritt and Reese have hit around the .400 mark, while the team as a whole has an average close to .300 to its credit.
Fordham 4, Dartmouth 3
Opening its season against Fordham at New York, April 30, the Green went down to its first defeat as the result of a single bad inning. Tracy, who succeeded Wallace after the unlucky third, pitched steady ball, and Maynard and Merritt turned in some sensational fielding features.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Fordham 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0—4 7 2 Dartm'uth 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0—3 6 2
Batteries—For Fordham, Waters and Marnell; for Dartmouth, Wallace, Tracy and Ross.
Yale 10, Dartmouth 4
Yale hammered Captain Merritt's offerings to all corners of the lot and took the second game of the season, May 1, by a 10-4 score. Dartmouth's lack of seasoning was apparent throughout, loose work in the infield being responsible for several of the Yale runs.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Yale ....1 0 2 1 3 0 0 3 —10 12 3 Dartm'th 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1— 4 9 6
Batteries—For Yale, Kelley and Peters; for Dartmouth, Merritt and Ross.
Dartmouth 10, Harvard 7
On the Crimson's home grounds at Cambridge May 5, the varsity broke into the winning column for the first time this season, amassing a total of IS safeties and driving two Harvard twirlers from the mound. Dartmouth got away to a big start by putting across eight runs in the first two frames, many of which were due largely to the wildness of the Crimson moundmen. The Green infield again proved unsteady, but Captain Merritt, with a record of eight innings in the box and five clean hits in six times at bat held the team well together.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dartm'th 3 5 0 0 0 0 1 1 0—10 15 4 Harvard 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0— 7 9 5
Batteries—For Dartmouth, Merritt, Harris and Ross; for Harvard, Harrison, Bullard Hardell and Lancaster.
Tufts 8, Dartmouth 0
Tufts proved eight runs too strong for the demoralized Green team, which went completely to pieces on the Medford Oval May 6 It was simply an off day for Dartmouth, both at bat and in the field. Morrill, in the box for Tufts, pitched a heady game and held his opponents safe at all times.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Tufts ....1 3 0 3 00 1 0 —8 9 1 Dartm'uth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0-0 7 7
Batteries—For Tufts, Morrill and Keefe; for Dartmouth, Tracy, Willard and Ross.
Brown 9, Dartmouth 3
An inauspicious defeat at the hands of Brown marked the opening of the home season May 12. Cold, damp weather brought with it indifferent play by both teams, but Knight, the Brown twirler, was always too strong for Dartmouth in the pinches.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Brown ...2 0 1 2 1 2 1 0 0—9 10 0 Dartm'uth 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2—3 7 7
Batteries—For Brown, Knight and Haddleton; for Dartmouth, Willard, Tracy and Ross.
Dartmouth 11, Columbia 3
Harris, a veteran of . two seasons past, held the strong Columbia aggregation in the hollow of his hand in the first Prom contest May 14, while the Green sluggers were slamming out 19 hits for a total of eleven runs. Dartmouth went after the Columbia pitchers in the last four frames, after the score had remained at two all through half the contest. Merritt and Maynard featured at bat, and Bruce and Ross turned in spectacular performances in the field.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dartm'th 2 0 0 0 4 1 3 1 —11 19 5 Colum'ia 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1— 3 8 5
Batteries—For Dartmouth, Harris and Ross; for Columbia, Koenig, Pulleyn and Ackerman, W. Farrell.
Dartmouth 5, Pennsylvania 2
Prom guests witnessed another clean-cut Dartmouth victory, when Penn was set back 5-2 on the home diamond May 15. The varsity showed its best form of the season, supporting Tracy well in the field and bunching hits in the fifth for the total of five runs.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dartm'uth 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 —5 8 2 Penn.... 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0—2 8 2
Batteries—For Dartmouth, Tracy and Ross; for Pennsylvania, Huntzinger and Warwick.
Dartmouth 7, Rutgers 2
With the idea of saving his regular hurlers for the games later in the week, Coach Tesreau sent Ross to the mound against Rutgers at New Brunswick May 18, and the varsity backstop proved good for an easy 7-2 win over the opposing nine. Four hits were the total gathered in by the New Jersey men for the afternoon. Having served in the outfield, the infield, and the box during previous contests, Captain Merritt went behind the bat in place of Ross and handled the receiving end in good style.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dartm'uth 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 1—7 11 2 Rutgers ..1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—2 4 2
Battelies—For Dartmouth, Ross and Merritt; for Rutgers, Waterfield and Brown.
Pennsylvania 5, Dartmouth 1
Penn turned the tables on Dartmouth on its home field May 19, with Huntzinger, who had fallen before the Green batsmen the previous week, proving very effective in the box. Three hits and a single run was the total gathered off the Red and Blue twirler.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Penn .....0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0—5 9 3 Dartm'uth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1—1 3 2
Batteries—For Pennsylvania, Huntzinger and Warwick; for Dartmouth, Tracy, Merritt and Ross.
Dartmouth 4, Norwich 2
Frank Ross turned in one of the best pitching performances of the season when he let down Norwich with six hits May 25, striking out 12 men and issuing no free passes. In five of the nine frames the visitors went out in one, two, three order.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dartm'uth 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 -4 7 1 Norwich O O O O 0 0 0 0 2—2 6 6
Batteries—For Dartmouth, Ross and Merritt; for Norwich, Vitty and Hyland.
Dartmouth 11, Amherst 4
Dartmouth went on a rampage on the first game of the Memorial Day trip, May 28, and pounded out 16 safeties off the A!mherst pitchers. Cowles, who twice hit safely, was the only Amherst batter to solve Wallace's delivery.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dartm'th 6 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 1—11 16 2 Amherst 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0— 4 2 5
Batteries—For Dartmouth, Wallace and Merritt; for Amherst, Cummings and Haselton.
Dartmouth 2, Columbia 1
Reese's home run featured the Green's second victory over Columbia at New York May 29. Meany of the Blue and White, considered one of the best college twirlers, took second place in a pitchers' battle with Captain Merritt.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Dartm'uth 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0—2 6 2 Columbia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1—1 5 2
Batteries—For Dartmouth, Merritt and Miner; for Columbia, Meany and Ackerman.
Holy Cross 11, Dartmouth 9
A six-run lead, gained over Holy Cross in the first two innings of the Memorial Day game, proved insufficient for a Dartmouth win. The Worcester batters hammered three Green pitchers for 17 hits, cutting down the lead inning by inning, and pushing across the winning runs in the seventh.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E H. Cross 0 0 1 1 3 4 2 0 —11 17 1 Dartm'th 1 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 9 10 5
Batteries—For Holy Cross, Gill, McLoughlin, Horan and Connors; for Dartmouth, Harris, Ross, Merritt and Merritt, Ross.
California 10, Dartmouth 9
A ninth inning Dartmouth rally, which just barely fell short of sending the tourists from California down to defeat, brought to a close the most exciting contest staged on Alumni Oval in several seasons. With two out in the ninth and the score 10-4 in favor of the visitors, the Green pushed across five runs before Ellison went into the box and stemmed the tide by striking out Ross.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Calif'nia 0 0 0 6 1 0 3 0 0—10 12 4 Dartm'th 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 5— 9 8 4
Batteries—For California, McHenry, Low Ellison and Toomey; for Dartmouth, Ross. Merritt and Merritt, Ross.
Dartmouth 6, Tufts 5
In a contest called by agreement at the end of the sixth, Dartmouth evened things up with Tufts June 4 to the tune of 6-5. Brilliant fielding by the Green infield featured.
The score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 R H E Dartmouth............... 3 3 0 0 0 —6 7 2 Tufts .................. 4 0 0 0 1 0—5 10 3
Batteries—For Dartmouth, Wallace and Merritt; for Tufts, Morrill and Keefe.
