BASEBALL

Holy Cross 6 Dartmouth 1

Before a huge holiday crowd in Worcester April 20, Owen Carroll, Holy Cross captain and hurling ace, treated Tesreau's boys .to a taste of real pitching. He permitted five hits but kept them well scattered and at all limes had the game in his hands. Edwards and Comerford, on the mound for the Green, allowed eight hits which the Purple batters mixed in with four Dartmouth errors to produce six runs.

Dartmouth 8 Middlebury 0

The first home game of the present season was a pleasant surprise for it showed that Coach Tesreau would have more than one reliable pitcher at his call. In his initial assignment, Fleet came within an ace of hurling a no-hit game altho he had the bases loaded in the opening frame. After the first man up had fanned, the Green pitcher got into a hole when he hit one man, passed another and allowed a third to reach first on a fielder's error. An infield out and a strike out got him out of danger, however, and from then Middlebury did not threaten until the ninth when Novotny gathered in a lonely single.

Picken, Green catcher, turned in the best play of the game when, after racing almost to the stand for a high foul fly by Papke, he made a perfect throw for a double play on Kilbride who had tried to make second after the catch. Hudgins, Harris and Picken each turned in two hits while Michelini and Fleet alone failed to connect safely. The one Dartmouth error was charged to Stevens.

The trip planned by the schedule makers for the first of May did not find favor with the gods. The game with Harvard in Cambridge on April 29 was cancelled because of cold weather and rain prevented the contests with Princeton April 30 and with Columbia May 1.

Dartmouth 12 Cornell 3

Using all the energy accumulated in three days pf enforced idleness, the Green nine hopped into the fray at Ithaca May 2 and revived Cornellian memories of a certain afternoon on the Polo Grounds last fall. The Hanoverian bats seemed to have no difficulty in finding the offerings of the Ithacan pitchers and collected 18 hits including a triple and two singles by Picken, three doubles by Stevens and three singles by Owl.

Successive singles by Bjorkman, Stevens, Michelini, and Picken earned Dartmouth its first run in the fourth and in the next inning seven hits drove Brown from the mound and scored five runs. Edwards allowed six hits for a total of nine bases but kept the bingles well separated. Michelini made two fielding errors at second but Cornell offended three times in this respect.

Dartmouth 5 Springfield 4

In a slow game on the Memorial Field diamond May 6, the Green varsity nosed out Springfield 5 to 4. After getting a 3 to 1 advantage in the first, Duplin, on the mound for the Hanoverians, allowed the visitors to tie the score in the second and retired in favor of Carver. He in turn, after permitting the invaders to take the lead, yielded to Edwards in the seventh. Coach Tesreau's men picked up a run in the sixth and by sneaking another across in the eighth gracefully avoided the necessity for extra innings.

Dartmouth S Penn 4

The score in the house party game with Penn was the same as the count in the preceding game but in no other way were the two contests alike. The Penn game was a pitcher's battle in which both hurlers had to rely heavily on support from their teammates, a condition which always assures an interesting game.

Comerford was doing the honors for the Green and sailed along smoothly save for the fourth inning when three singles, two walks and a Green error netted four Pennsy runs. The fourth inning was a nightmare for the opposing hurler as well, however, for after two were out Bjorkman tripled scoring Harris, Stevens singled sending Bjorkman home and Michelini's single let Stevens tally.

Comerford, the first man up in the Green fifth, realized that his team was still one down and poled out a triple, tying the score a minute later on an infield error. From then on both teams threatened but were unable to do any real damage until the thirteenth.

In this fateful -inning it was again the diminutive. Green pitcher that wrecked the visitors' chance of victory. After being presented with a pass by Long, he thoughtlessly stole second, advanced to third on Owl's out and with two out and the count two strikes and one ball on Hudgins raced home on the pitcher's windup to win his own game as he slid across the plate.

Although charged with three errors, the Green turned in some brilliant fielding, a double play, Michelini to Hudgins to Harris, checking a score in the fifth and a one handed spear by Bjorkman in the ninth choking what seemed a sure triple.

Dartmouth 5 Harvard 4

Victory again had a seat on the Dartmouth bench in the game with Harvard May 9, the second house party contest, the third consecutive game to be won by a 5 to 4 score and a victory which maintained the Green's record of not having conceded baseball supremacy to the Crimson since 1916.

Bjorkman's bat played an important role. One triple tied the score and his second three ply wallop brought in the two runs which gave Dartmouth its second last inning victory in two days.

In the opening inning, alter two were out, Harris stole second, took a big lead and raced back and forth on the base path long enough to permit Eliott on third to score. Edwards who pitched excellent ball during most of the game let down the bars in the second to allow three Harvard runs.

The Crimson held the lead until the sixth when Bjorkman's first triple scored Harris who had reached first on an error. The Green captain came home .with the tying count when Maher allowed the throw-in to roll between his legs. Two wild heaves, one by Fox on third and one by Edwards, put the Crimson out in front again in the eighth. Dartmouth also threatened in this inning with two men on but Tesreau's pinch hitter struck out.

In the final frame, Captain Bjorkman fulfilled his sweetest boyhood dream, two were out and the count was three and two with two men on bases when the Harvard hurler made the wrong offering and the Green leader spanked the ball for a triple which scored the two runners and won the game. Howard led the visitors' attack getting three hits in four trips to the plate while Fox turned in a similar performance for Dartmouth.

Dartmouth 8 Brown 3

In a slow game on Memorial Field May 13, Coach Tesreau's nine continued its winning way. Fleet was selected by Coach Tesreau to toss them over and avoided difficulty except in the seventh when Brown filled the sacks wth one out. A timely double play quickly cleared the air.

Stickle, Brunonian hurler was wild and ineffective, allowing nine hits including a double and a homer. Stevens had a perfect day at bat getting two singles and a double in his three appearances, Harris accounted for the homer and Captain Bjorkman got two safeties. Six errors were charged against the Hanoverians with only three against the Providence team.

Dartmouth 3 Williams 2

Faster opposition than expected materialized in the Williams game on May 14 when several Purple batters evinced an unusual fondness for "Eddie"' Edwards fast delivery giving the Bay Staters a two run lead in the second. This they held until the seventh and eighth when Dartmouth overtook and passed them respectively. Comerford finished the game and was credited with the win which incidentally was the seventh in a row for the Green. Williams had one more hit and two less errors than their hosts.

Brown 3 Dartmouth 2

Invited to Providence to dedicate Brown's new baseball park May 16, Dartmouth found that in Trumbower, Coach Snell had been keeping an ace up his sleeve. The Brown captain pitched a good game allowing only five scattered hits and striking out 10. Fleet also pitched a good game but let the Brown men bunch their hits to get needed runs. Williams with three and Trumbower with two hits led the Brown attack while Picken's two hits put him in the lead for the Green.