BASEBALL

Winning- four out of seven games, the Dartmouth baseball team opened the 1924 season in Georgia where Coach Tesreau had taken a squad of 14 men on the annual spring training trip. Previous to their appearance in Atlanta the Dartmouth team had had but one work-out in the open, that one staged in Washington where the team had an intermission of several hours between trains. The performance of the team in the south indicated that with proper attention to the tasks in hand and a fair amount of the breaks of the game this Dartmouth team should have little difficulty in maintaining the Hanover standard of recent years and perhaps bettering that.

Opening in Atlanta, March 28, the Dartmouth team started the season with a fusilade of hits that netted three runs in the first inning of a game with Georgia Tech. Three more runs were added in the sixth inning, after Georgia Tech had run one up in the fourth, and the final counter was shoved across in the ninth frame. Tech scored additional runs in the sixth and seventh innings. Edwards, pitching for Dartmouth, held the southerners to four hits while the Dartmouth team was collecting twice that number. Four errors were charged against each team.

RHE Dartmouth 300003001 784 Georgia Tech ..000101100 34 4 Batteries: Dartmouth: Edwards and Shaneman. Georgia Tech: Enloe, Sneed and Palmino.

On March 29, the Green team dedicated the new million dollar ball park of the Atlanta, Southern League, team, by winning again from Georgia Tech in the first encounter of a double bill. Again the Hanover team started the afternoon with three first inning runs and followed this beginning with an attack which added six more runs in the second inning. Thompson, pitching for Georgia, was chased to the bench by the force of the attack. The Hanover team added two more runs in the fourth inning. Georgia Tech scored twice in the fourth and seventh innings and three times in the sixth. The game was called at the end of the seventh. Dartmouth played an errorless game in the field and at bat was led by Captain Thurston, who gathered three hits in three trips to the plate.

RHE Dartmouth 3602000 11 90 Georgia Tech 0002032 713 5 Batteries: Dartmouth, Lyon, Barker, and Seavey. Georgia Tech, Thompson, Allison, and Palmino.

The first defeat of the pre-season series was charged up again Captain Thurston's team March 31, when the Hanover players lost an 11 inning struggle to Olgethorpe by a score of seven to six. Again the Green team played an errorless game but four bunched hits for a total of five runs in the sixth inning caused Dunlevy's downfall and another call on Barker as relief pitcher. From this session until the eleventh the game was air tight.. Then Oglethorpe shoved in a winning run which concluded the game.

RHE Dartmouth .02012100000 6 80 Oglethorpe .10000500001 7 10 5 Batteries: Dartmouth, Dunlevy, Barker, and Shaneman. Oglethorpe, Henrey, and Br-yant.

Dartmouth won the first of two games with Mercer University when Lyon kept the southern hits well scattered and his team-mates bunched hits effectively for a three run margin above the Mercer score. The game was not one of clean fielding as the error column indicates, but Harris, of Dartmouth, turned in a brilliant play when he raced into the first base bleachers for a high foul fly.

RHE Dartmouth .. 0 1 '0 0 02 3 0 1 7 11 4 Mercer 000010012 4 6 3 Batteries: Dartrouth, Lyon and Seavey; Mercer, Carson, Hamilton, and Morgan.

The inevitable cracking under pressure came in the second game with Mercer when Dartmouth lost a free slugging and sloppily fielded ball game by a score of 14 to 6. Captain Thurston's team took a lead of two runs in the first inning but had this blanketed in the same session when Mercer pounded Dartmouth offerings for a six run total. Further scoring was postponed until the fifth inning when Mercer added five more tallies. The southern team heaped up three more in the sixth frame. Dartmouth added a half-hearted count in the sixth and a three run rally in the seventh but was unable to get within striking distance of a win.

RHE Dartmouth ....200001300 6 10 5 Mercer 6 0 0 0 5 3 0 0 14 12 9 Batteries: Dartmouth, Walker, Dunlevy, and Bjorkman, Shaneman and Seavey; Mercer, Sims, Sawin, and Carson.

In another game with Oglethorpe the Dartmouth team took revenge for the previous 11 inning defeat and with Edwards holding the Generals to six scattered hits, no two of which came in the same inning, won under wraps. The Hanover team took its customary three run lead in the first inning, added a count in the third, three more in the fifth, single runs in the seventh and eighth innings for its total. Oglethorpe, aided by Dartmouth errors, scored twice in the second inning and again in the third.

RHE Dartmouth 3010301 10 983 Oglethorpe 021000000 365 Batteries: Dartmouth, Edwards and Shaneman. Oglethorpe, Peace, Morris, and Bryant.

The last game of the southern trip was played against the University of Georgia in Athens, and on a muddy, rain-soaked field which made errorless ball impossible, Dartmouth lost by a 6 to 2 score. After two men were out in the first inning, singles by Smith and Harris, followed by a double by Bjorkman, started the Green team away with a two-run lead. This was, however, the extent of the Dartmouth scoring for the day. Georgia evened the count in the third inning, scored three more times in the fifth, and again in the seventh.

RHE Dartmouth 200000000 253 U. of Georgia ...00203010 662 Batteries: Dartmouth, Barker and Shaneman. U. of Georgia, Sale and Powers.